Financing - Matches

Health care remains inaccessible and inequitable for all, especially for the poor in the Philippines. Among the sources of health expenditures, out-of..

Catastrophic illnesses can push a household into poverty by causing unmanageable, or catastrophic, expenditures for their treatment or management. Kal..

This study reviews literature on financing catastrophic health expenditures in selected countries to describe and synthesize the strategies of relativ..

The Individually Paying Program (IPP) is the voluntary component of the Philippines` social health insurance program. The program caters to those in t..

The Employed Program of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) caters to those in the formal sector. Included are those in the gover..

Lack of access to safe drinking water takes its toll on the health and productivity of people, especially poor households. The 2011-2016 Philippine De..

At the Pulong Saliksikan forum on Oct. 24, òòò½´«Ã½ (òòò½´«Ã½) Senior Researcher Adoracion Navarro said that the count..

The òòò½´«Ã½ (òòò½´«Ã½) said on Friday that there are two new potential fund sources for infrastructure development th..

This Policy Note identifies opportunities for making health financing and services more inclusive. Many opportunities exist today to make growth more ..

This Policy Note provides an overview of the puzzle of economic growth and stalled health improvement in the country. The Philippine economy has grown..

The government in its effort to make growth inclusive has again arrived at a more balanced budget distribution between social and economic services in..

This study presents an evaluation of the National Expenditure Program for 2013. First, this paper projects that the fiscal targets set out in the Budg..

Financing of education in the Philippines is mainly by the government (public) and by households (private), and since the 1990s there has been a shift..

Philippine population is projected to grow from about 88 million in 2007 to 142 million in 2040. The projected increase in population size will be acc..

One of the major challenges in the Philippine health sector is to secure adequacy of appropriate health facilities. To address this problem, the Healt..