Developing Economies that focuses on the health conditions of PWDs, both adult women and children, in Mandaue City and San …, the study highlights the lack of access to appropriate services for PWDs and that out-of-pocket expenditures on health … health-care providers and personnel, particularly in the communities. …

The Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) is a capital investment grant administered by the Department of Health … (DOH), designed to help local government units (LGUs) augment their health infrastructure, such as primary healthcare … national resources in a highly decentralized health system. …

for Health (HRH) remuneration system in the Philippines. We examine the current stock of HRH, their economic contribution …, we explore policy options for promoting equitable remuneration in the context of ongoing health sector reforms …, particularly the implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act. We estimate the potential budgetary costs of selected …

attention. Its consequences are multifaceted and extreme. Hence, it should be at the front and center of economic and health … dialogue. This paper provides the current state of child stunting, a marker of chronic malnutrition. Using a health system lens …, we have identified different challenges impeding the delivery of cost-effective health and nutrition interventions. Also …

Seven years ago, the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act was signed into law. Its revised implementing … provisions. For the past years, Department of Health has taken the lead in the implementation of the RPRH law and has worked with … the RPRH is the delivery of responsible parenthood and reproductive health services and information. Among the key …

The passage of the UHC law in 2019 mandated the creation of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Program to identify … and recommend the most cost-effective health technologies for the Philippine government to procure. Since its inception … public health. …

This impact evaluation of the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) of the Department of Health provides a … preliminary analysis on its effects, particularly on the utilization of local health services, due to the improvement in capital … of the study. Site visits were conducted in 107 hospitals/infirmaries and 159 rural health units/city health offices …

health in the Philippines. Despite the country's twenty-five years of experience in decentralization, little is known about … the topic. Overall, our survey shows that the existing scholarship on the impact of decentralization on health in the … some indication of positive impacts of decentralization on increasing government health expenditures and on improving …

The Philippine national government, through the Department of Health (DOH), has a long tradition of augmenting the … the mandate of DOH from being the sole provider of health services to being the provider of technical services for health …, DOH continues to deploy healthcare professionals throughout the country. Over the last decade, the national health …

The study attempts to document the Philippine's experience in health devolution with focus on the Department of Health …-planned and well-designed government policy to minimize, if not avert, unintended consequences; and (ii) mainstreaming of health … units (LGUs) that were able to reap the benefits of health devolution and find out how the good practices can be replicated …