Filipinos remain focused on building their financial protection and securing their health despite coronavirus statistics and alert levels steadily going down, a recent survey showed. In a report by the Sun Life Grepa Financial, Inc. (Sun Life Grepa), it said that health protection continued to b
According to authors PIDS Research Fellow Valerie Gilbert Ulep, PIDS Supervising Research Specialist, and PIDS Jhanna Uy, and PIDS Research Analyst Lyle Daryll Casas, NCDs are now the “leading causes of disease burden” in the Philippines.
NCDs are “conditions of long duration and slow progression” such as cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.
Based on the Institute for Health and Metrics and Evaluation report, the contribution of NCDs to total deaths in the Philippines grew from 39 percent in 1990 to 64 percent in 2019.
Among the country s top NCDs are ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and low back pain.