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Hospital readmissions are often used to measure quality and continuity of care within health systems. In 2024, the Philippine Health Insurance Corpora..

This report estimated the utilization of outpatient benefits from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and examined variations across local gov..

Inequities in access to healthcare are pervasive in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), manifesting as large socio-economic gradients in he..

In this study, the readiness of PhilHealth’s health information system (HIS) to support the transition to Diagnosis-Related Groups with Global B..

Fraud in social health insurance results in inefficient use of government resources and diverts funds away from necessary health care needs and subsid..

This paper integrates three studies that collectively assess the current state of the health information system (HIS) in the Philippines and identify ..

In the Philippines, hospital efficiency and quality are rarely assessed due to the limited availability of administrative health data. An analysis of ..

To address the long-standing problem of malnutrition in the Philippines, adequate and efficient public spending is critical. However, monitoring healt..

Child health and nutrition shape the future of individuals, communities, and nations. In the Philippines, chronic child malnutrition continues to hind..

In this report, we characterize government health expenditures, examine the fragmented and overlapping nature of various financing streams, and propos..

In the Philippines, out-of-pocket or direct payments made by patients have persistently accounted for nearly half of the country’s health spendi..

The Universal Health Care (UHC) Act of 2019 introduces comprehensive reforms to address longstanding demand and supply constraints in the Philippine h..

The next 1,000 days of a child's life (spanning from the age of two to five years) offer a crucial opportunity to build on early gains and sustain or ..

Violence against children has profound and lasting effects on physical and emotional well-being, educational outcomes, and economic productivity. In l..

In the Philippines, children continue to face challenges in accessing healthy, sustainable, and diverse diets that provide sufficient nutrients for gr..