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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation as the national strategic purchaser of health services

Uy, Jhanna; Nuevo, Christian Edward L.; Casas, Lyle; … - 2021

Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is envisioned to be the national purchaser of health services that can support both inpatient …, we (1) described the financial health of select public and private hospitals in the Philippines, and (2) examined … PhilHealth's current position in relation to its envisioned role as national strategic purchaser for Universal Health Care (UHC). [...] …

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Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arhin, Kwadwo; Oteng-Abayie, Eric Fosu; Novignon, Jacob - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

Objective Universal health coverage (UHC) is a major pathway to save many people from catastrophic and impover‑ ishing healthcare spending and address the inequality in health and healthcare. The objective of this paper is to assess the efciency with which health systems in sub-Saharan Africa...

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Coverage expansion of universal health care and its impacts on health insurance market and welfare : the case of South Korea

Lim, Taejun - In: Hitotsubashi journal of economics 62 (2021) 2, pp. 141-161

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Does free hospitalization insurance change health care consumption of the poor? : short-term evidence from Pakistan

Helmsmüller, Simona; Landmann, Andreas - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 47 (2022) 1, pp. 238-275

We analyze short-term effects of free hospitalization insurance for the poorest quintile of the population in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First, we exploit that eligibility is based on an exogenous poverty score threshold and apply a regression discontinuity design. Second, we...

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The Impact of Filipino Micro Health Insurance Units on Income-Related Equality of Access to Healthcare

Dror, David M.; Koren, Ruth; Steinberg, D.M - 2007

to healthcare. The analysis is based on a household survey conducted in five regions in the Philippines in 2002. METHODS …: We conclude that MIUs in Philippines improve income-related equality of access to hospitalization and medical …

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Public-private partnership options toward achieving universal health coverage in the Philippine setting

Banzon, Eduardo P.; Lucero, J. A.; Ho, B. L.; Puyat, M. E. - 2014

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly being utilized to meet development goals of many countries and there is much potential for PPPs to help address health inequities and advance universal health care (UHC). In support of these efforts, the paper defines PPPs and their role in the...

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Interim assessment of the PhilHealth CARES (Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff) project ; [a study commissioned by the Department of Health through the Health Res...

Baja, Emmanuel S.; Castillo-Carandang, Nina T.; Viray, … - 2014 - Final report

The PhilHealth Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff (CARES) project was launched in 2012 to help … implementation of the PhilHealth CARES project in selected hospitals in PhilHealth`s National Capital Region (NCR). The specific … visits to four PhilHealth-accredited hospitals in NCR (private and public, Level 2 and 3) were also done. The study found …

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Public-private partnership options toward achieving universal health coverage in the Philippine setting

Banzon, Eduardo P.; Lucero, Josephine Anne C.; Ho, … - In: Philippine journal of development 40 (2013) 1/2, pp. 161-186

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Factors associated with the delay in seeking inpatient and outpatient care services in the Philippines

Capuno, JJ; Kraft, AD; Poco, LC; Quimbo, SA; Tan, CAR - 2017

Despite the country’s policies and programs towards universal health care, health is not improving as well as expected, which suggests that households still face significant barriers to their choice of and access to health care, and their timing of use of health services. Using a nationally...

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Universal Health Coverage in the Philippines

Bredenkamp, Caryn; Buisman, Leander R. - 2015

Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent …

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