impact that healthcare costs have on household living standards in a high-income country with a long established universal … health care system. We undertook this analysis using a longitudinal, nationally representative dataset – the Household Income … defined as spending 10% or more of household income on healthcare. Results: Average total household expenditure on healthcare …

Highly unequal access to health services and the large share of household out-of-pocket spending in total health … PhilHealth in expanding population coverage has been described as "squeezing the middle:" (i) "squeezing from the top" by … expanding the PhilHealth coverage of the group subject to compulsory enrollment, i.e., the Employed Sector Program, (ii …

The Philippines recently introduced two distinct but related large-scale social protection programs that, first …

Indigent membership in PhilHealth has surged in recent years, driven by the nation-wide identification of the poor … well as the near poor in PhilHealth at point of care and may oversubscribe the poor given the higher reimbursement relative …

ensuring equitable access to essential health care, this study aims to assess the impact of UHC on household impoverishment due … secondary data analysis of the nationally representative household surveys, Socio-Economic Survey: a) to estimate the number of …