This paper investigates the significant contribution of private health insurance to the Philippine health care finance. It also determines ways of its promotion and regulation. In addition, it identifies the areas where its services are the most concentrated, identifies its targeted...

Due to tight fiscal budget, health care planners have started to explore alternative financing mechanisms. These alternatives can be effectively implemented given thorough understanding of mechanisms that direct household demand for health care. This paper investigates the factors of households'...

This study analyzes the factors affecting physician and dentist's productivity and the fees they charge for their clinic services, their willingness to participate in financing schemes and their career decisions. This paper also estimates their average consultation fees and average consultation...

This paper investigates the existing health financing schemes of communities in region XI, particularly on the factors that enable them to set up a sustainable self-managed system where resource generation for financing health services can be established. This provides baseline data on the...

From the first part of this paper, results from critical appraisal and description of economic impacts on health policy show that there is a limited expertise in the country on economic evaluation. Despite dissemination, only 25% has an impact on policy. The second part includes the development...

This study provides basic information on the status of Philippine health professionals that will serve as input for health manpower planning and for the preparation of health care financing scheme. An inventory of the existing manpower personnel is provided. In addition, factors affecting...

This paper estimates a discrete choice model of outpatient care using data drawn from a household survey covering 4 regions and 7 provinces involving 2,798 households and some 14,200 individuals. The choice alternatives include home care and formal care which consists of hospital outpatient...

This paper is one of eight case studies in the health sector conducted under the project "Population and Urbanization: Managing the Urbanization Process Under the decentralized Governance Framework" jointly undertaken by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, National Economic and...

This paper is one of eight case studies in the health sector conducted under the project "Population and Urbanization Process under a Decentralized Governance Framework" jointly undertaken by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, the National Economic and Development Authority and...