This study provides basic information on the status of Philippine health professionals that will serve as input for health manpower planning and for t..

As suggested by vast literature, the Philippine economy has performed poorly over the last three decades due to deterioration in productivity. This pa..

This paper is two-fold. The first part deals with whether insurance have or do not have inflationary effect on government and private hospital fees. T..

This study analyzes the factors affecting physician and dentist’s productivity and the fees they charge for their clinic services, their willingness..

Analysis of pneumonia data set shows consistency with current literature of obtaining higher costs in government-owned and higher level facilities. Fo..

This paper deals with the epidemiological trends and incidence of selected leading diseases in the country. Mortality rates and morbidity rates are in..

Using full-information maximum likelihood on a cross-section sample of 65 hospitals from seven Philippine provinces, this paper jointly estimates a tw..

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 e..

This study seeks to provide the Philippines Medical Care Commission with short-run and long-run alternatives aimed at improving the performance of Med..

This paper investigates the existing health financing schemes of communities in region XI, particularly on the factors that enable them to set up a su..

Vast literature have documented that the Philippine economic crisis from1983-1985 has been due to extravagant fiscal policy and to the proliferation o..

Despite potential benefits from Medicare, many Filipinos are indifferent, if not hostile to the program due to the perceived widespread corruption and..

In the context of sustainable development, environmentally preferable products (EPPs) are desirable because they leave no unwelcome impacts on natural..

Rice self-sufficiency is a dominant policy objective. However, analysis indicates that government policies are not neutral. Thus, it hampers the reali..

Within the context of “NIC-hood,” this paper advances that the country and the government should understand and situate the parameters of ..