(Photo grabbed from Manila PIO Facebook page) MANILA-The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) urged on Wednesday the government and other stakeholders to focus on improving the country's healthcare system. This, after POPCOM presented its analysis on the recent report released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) citing the causes of deaths in 2021. The report said that as of May 21, 2022, registered deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) accounted for a total of 10,226, or 6.5 percent of the total registered deaths from January to April 2022 making it 146,137 Covid-associated mortalities since January 2020. POPCOM Executive Director Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez noted, however, that there were 159,770 excess mortalities unrelated to Covid-19, but were rather caused by other diseases that claimed more lives along with the deadly viral infection in 2021. These were attributed, he said, to ischemic heart disease (or heart attacks, up by 29.7 percen
The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) on Wednesday said the country should look into creating programs for elderly Filipinos, establishing care facilities for them, and developing policies that would offer them employment opportunities if they want to work.
The Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) cited recent data from the Philippine Statistics Authority saying that the percentage of Filipino
At a public briefing, POPCOM executive director Juan Antonio Perez said that based on the 2020 data, the country only has 39 million workers for 96 million consumers.“That is probably not enough. Probably we need to add 6 million more effective workers para magkaroon ng correct balance ng number of workers supporting the number of consumers,” he said.
The Philippines should start preparing for the “graying” of its population with the increase in the number of senior citizens, the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) said on Tuesday.