Health - Matches

With the devolution of health service delivery from the Department of Health to local government units (LGUs) as mandated in the 1991 Local Government..

In line with the commitment of the Philippine government to adopt the Millennium Declaration, there have been efforts geared toward the achievement of..

After many policies have been put in place over the years to uplift the welfare of the Filipinos, the overall human development in the country has not..

Informed by a growing body of research showing that investments in early childhood health, nutrition, and cognitive and psychosocial development have ..

This paper proposes a pricing model for health care markets wherein providers and patients play a Nash bargaining game. In this game, bargaining power..

For more than a decade now, the national health accounts (NHA) of the Philippines has been providing data that are important for health policymaking. ..

This paper compares the design features and implementation of the social health insurance (SHI) for the poor programs of the Philippines and Vietnam. ..

To help ease the burden of medical expenses on the part of lower-income households during times of illness and emergencies, the Philippine government,..

The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, name..

Services has taken over the role of agriculture as the Philippine economy's engine of growth. Not only does it contribute significantly to GDP, it als..

Borrowing today’s parlance, the “in” thing now is health tourism. These days, people are not only looking for cures for their illnesses; they ar..

There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of ..

Do men benefit more than women from government expenditures in health care? Or do women have the upper hand? Using a sex-differentiated incidence anal..

This paper addresses the lack of information on the disparity of outcomes, utilization and access to Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health ser..

Early child-bearing and high fertility still persist especially among the poor, despite the more than two decades of family planning program implement..