Health - Matches

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..

This paper presents the first attempt at estimating the expenditures on the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) for 1998 and 2000. It iden..

This paper reviews the developments in the population program from 1986-2002. It summarizes the main components of the program as well as highlights t..

Agencies tasked to carry out a social agenda have distinct experience in the utilization of available resources. The issues that confront the DOH in t..

Is it enough to have funds available for government programs and projects? This Policy Notes argues that not only is the availability and magnitude of..

This article is culled from the author's presentation during the Forum on Population and Urbanization: Managing the Urbanization Process Under a Decen..