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Hello, PIDS friends! Here's our #PIDSFactFriday for the week on the quality of inpatient meals in select Philippine public hospitals.A PIDS study th..
Infographics - Fact Friday

The capital stock of public health facilities in the Philippines has been stagnant for decades. The number of hospitals remained the same since the mi..
Policy Notes

The Philippine government passed the Generics Act of 1988 to ensure that inexpensive and effective drugs are made available to all Filipinos. The law ..
Policy Notes

In 2011, PhilHealth implemented the case-based payment (CBP) scheme to improve its benefit framework, enhance hospital social services, and achieve gr..
Policy Notes

With the higher economic growth of the economy, the government is urged to allocate bigger budget for healthcare services and enable this sector to co..
In the News

This Policy Note identifies opportunities for making health financing and services more inclusive. Many opportunities exist today to make growth more ..
Policy Notes

This Policy Note explains the large disparities in health status between the poor and the nonpoor in the Philippines. Key factors include: (1) the per..
Policy Notes

This Policy Note provides an overview of the puzzle of economic growth and stalled health improvement in the country. The Philippine economy has grown..
Policy Notes

One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Healt..
Discussion Papers

One of the inaugural commitments made by the Philippines` new administration is the provision of quality and affordable health care for each and every..
Policy Notes

The Magna Carta of Public Health Workers (RA 7305) was enacted to ensure that health workers are properly compensated, thereby helping to promote bett..
Policy Notes

As a recognition of the valuable role of private sector in the healthcare delivery system, this paper attempts to collate vital information on private..
Discussion Papers

How are government hospitals funded? What are the sources of their funds and how are these allocated to them? This Note takes a deeper look at this an..
Policy Notes

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. Th..
Discussion Papers

Health care service in the country is designed to be delivered under a referral network. Traditionally, an ordinary citizen would go to a clinic or ba..
Development Research News
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