Health - Matches

The national subsidy for indigent PhilHealth members identified under the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) began in..

Patients' financial protection is considered a key component of health systems and has been a consistent policy goal of the Department of Health. Of p..

Health care remains inaccessible and inequitable for all, especially for the poor in the Philippines. Among the sources of health expenditures, out-of..

The World Health Organization advocates universal health coverage so that all people can obtain the needed health services without suffering financial..

In 2012, there were about 4.5 million Filipinos attending private schools and an estimated 21.6 million employed by private establishments in the Phil..

A study by the state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is calling for the expansion of the Philippine Health Insurance Co..

The Philippines is not prepared to detect and prevent the complications, including resistance to treatment, posed by the tandem of tuberculosis (TB) a..

The Department of Education's (DepEd) School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is a "well-managed" program according to a study recently released by state ..

Financial protection of patients is considered a key component of health systems, and has been a consistent policy goal of the Department of Health. O..

The Complete Treatment Pack (COMPACK) program is a medicine access program designed to reach the poorest of the poor with complete treatment regimens ..

Catastrophic illnesses can push a household into poverty by causing unmanageable, or catastrophic, expenditures for their treatment or management. Kal..

The PhilHealth Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff (CARES) project was launched in 2012 to help members and their families navigate t..

The main feature in this issue dwells on the critical policy issues in irrigation development confronting the agriculture sector. In particular, it di..

The government has decided to utilize the public-private partnership (PPP) program to help improve access to quality hospitals and health care facilit..

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly being utilized to meet development goals of many countries and there is much potential for PPPs to..