Health - Matches

Philippine Institute for Development Studies Senior Research Fellow health economist Dr. Valerie Gilbert Ulep presented his study, “The Economic..

“Filipino patients – mostly their family’s breadwinners, are driven to poverty due to cancer, losing Php35.3 billion annually, are a..

ADDITIONAL health spending is being billed as a key component of the Philippine economic recovery, with a government think tank saying it will help ma..

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown measures taken to control its spread brought economies to a halt, turning the public hea..

A financial service provider in Parañaque City has recently launched a lending application intended for the working-class population.  Th..

PhilHealth members still pay out of pocket in spite of universal healthcare, according to a group of researchers from the Philippine Institute for Dev..

ILOILO City – Antique and Guimaras in Western Visayas are among the 27 provinces in the Philippines with less than 0.5 per 1,000 population bed ..

Disturbing, if not worrisome, is the recent finding of the government think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies that five provinces have..

This study reviewed public expenditures on nutrition (Annual Investment Plans [AIPs] and Gender and Development [GAD)] budgets) and evaluated the impl..

MEMBERS of state-owned Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) still pay out of pocket for medical services despite a law on universal healthca..

MORE TRAINING for mothers and accessible natal care will help mitigate stunted growth and malnutrition in children, the Philippine Institute for Devel..

MORE TRAINING for mothers and accessible natal care will help mitigate stunted growth and malnutrition in children, the Philippine Institute for Devel..

About a third of Filipino children are stunted or chronically malnourished. However, there is a paucity of evidence on the socioeconomic inequalities ..

ALIGNED with the country’s commitment to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, over a decade ago the government..

The elderly, women, rural folks and poor Filipinos are the ones who are more likely to suffer from shelling out-of-pocket health expenses since the go..