Equity - Matches

While the country's policies on health service coverage articulate progressive goals, there is a paradox in the policy articulation and the actual per..

While health outcomes have slightly improved, inequalities persist due to unresolved issues in healthcare access, encompassing limited healthcare infr..

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) will hold a public webinar on October 26, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM via Zoom. It features ..

To familiarize everyone with key socioeconomic terms and concepts, we have this new social media series. For this week, our buzzword is "public trans..

This year’s first issue of the Philippine Journal of Development features articles on healthcare quality in hospitals, health financing, social ..

To familiarize everyone with key socioeconomic terms and concepts, we have this new social media series.   For this week, our buzzword is..

The burden of healthcare costs varies across age, sex, location, and socioeconomic status, but the elderly, women, rural, and poorer Filipinos are mor..

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and relevant stakeholders must prioritize raising the number of accredited hospital beds in L..

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (PhilHealth) membership-to-population coverage in the poorest provinces is only a little over half of ..

This paper presents a new comprehensive and consistent set of public transfer accounts, disaggregated by age and major government programs from 1950 t..

In this study, a spatiotemporal analysis of trends and disparities in health service coverage indicators was conducted using PhilHealth data on insura..

Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both financ..

From a distance, there is not much to improve in the Philippines' gender landscape. The country is 8th in the global ranking of gender parity and the ..

A PIDS study found that from the mid-70s, more females than males in the Philippines were completing college education. This could be attributed to a ..

The paper argues that the Philippines needs a more nuanced view of gender equality. Historically, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than fema..