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

The PhilHealth Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff (CARES) project was launched in 2012 to help members and their families navigate t..

The main feature in this issue dwells on the critical policy issues in irrigation development confronting the agriculture sector. In particular, it di..

The government has decided to utilize the public-private partnership (PPP) program to help improve access to quality hospitals and health care facilit..

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly being utilized to meet development goals of many countries and there is much potential for PPPs to..

Education and learning depend on good health and nutrition, especially among young children. Thus, investments have been made for these two forms of h..

The study assesses the experience of three Asian countries: China, Thailand, and Vietnam in the pursuit of universal health coverage (UHC) of their so..

The expenditures for employer-provided health care in private establishments and for student health services in private schools are two components est..

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

Although the Philippines is on track in achieving many of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), inequities in accessibility, availab..

To improve PhilHealth`s benefits framework, enhance hospital services, and achieve one of the Universal Health Care`s thrusts, greater financial prote..

A recent study of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Department of Health (DOH) reveals that the leading cau..

This second issue of the Development Research News announces the revival of the Philippine Services Coalition that will study and advocate for reforms..

It has been twenty-five years since the passage of the Generic Drugs Act and five years since the Cheaper Medicines Act, but majority of Filipinos, pa..

Health sector stakeholders gathered at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City to discuss some of the best healthcare innovation practices in a forum..