Picazo, Oscar F. - Matches

The Aquino administration started the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) in 2010 to provide large-scale capital investment for increasing th..

This impact evaluation of the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) of the Department of Health provides a preliminary analysis on its effects,..

The capital stock of public health facilities in the Philippines has been stagnant for decades. The number of hospitals remained the same since the mi..

This Policy Note analyzes the role of PhilHealth as a purchaser of health services on behalf of its members. It investigates this role in terms of thr..

This study is a critical analysis of health services purchasing undertaken by the PhilHealth, which implements the National Health Insurance Program o..

This paper briefly reviews the literature on the emerging concept of eco-adventure and cultural tourism, dubbed "green and gold tourism," respectively..

This paper discusses the promotion of person-to person (PTP) tourism in the member-countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), focusing..

Medical tourism is poised to continue growing globally in the next few years due to combined economic, demographic, epidemiological, communication, an..

This report reviews the medical tourism industry in the Philippines. It discusses the global market for medical tourism, analyzes the demand and suppl..

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

This Policy Note explains the large disparities in health status between the poor and the nonpoor in the Philippines. Key factors include: (1) the per..

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

This report provides an assessment of the Department of Health`s (DOH) three drug provision programs, i.e., Botika ng Barangay (BnB), Botika ng Bayan ..

The objectives of this study are to construct a profile of the medical instruments and equipment sector and to identify policy issues related to the a..

In the paper’s analysis of health manpower, two major issues emerged: employment and productivity. The former includes the analysis of supply needs,..