THE Philippines invests less than a percent of its GDP for nutrition programs that could prevent stunting, according to a study released by state-owned think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). In the study, titled “A Review of Public Expenditures for Nutrition in National Government Agencies of the Philippines…
State-run Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is still far from functioning effectively as the envisioned country's strategic purchaser of individual-based health services under the Universal Health Care (UHC) law, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). In the study titled "The Financial Health of Select Philippine Hospitals and…