Compare and Contrast: National health situation 2001 and present
How are you going to answer the basic economic health questions
a. What to produce?
 Health Care providers: (Doctors, Nurses
Physical Therapist and etc.)
 Enough and proper Health Budget
allocation
 Drugs and medicines
 Low cost of procedures and professional
Fees
 Cure to specific diseases: causes of Mortality
Morbidity
 Healthy status
b. How many and How much?
 The ideal doctor-patient ratio is 1:10,000
According to the World Health Organization and
The ideal nurse-patient ratio is 1:15
 Right budget allocation: our law eamarks
5% (38.25 B) allocation on health care of the
National budget. Yet the DOH only received a 1.5%
 Drugs and medicines costs: an example of
A drug for heart related diseases costs P 10. It is
Safe to assume that many of the population needs
It. That’s easily translates to P75M daily costs for
phRMceutical revenue. And yet, when these drugs
are submitted for bidding. They can down from
P10 toP2.30
 Philippine health insurance: it helps a lot to
The citizens because of the discounts that they receive
Depending on the diagnosis, they can get an up to
50% discount depends on their diagnosis.
 TB: cured 50%
 They can also achieve a healthy status by
Means of taking good care of themselves by eating
Fruits and vegetables which are not expensive and
Also with the help of proper exercise
a. What to produce?
a. What to produce?
 Barangay Health stations
 Proper Budget Allocation
 Drugs and medicines  lack or absence of preventive and
b. how many and how much? promotive aspects of health like
c. The health budget allocated for the year immunization services such as anti-
tetanus, Hepa-B
2017 is not commensurate to the needs
of Filipinos and still far from the 5% of  eliminate measles
the Gross Domestic Product standard.  build birthing facilities
d. instead of reducing the maternal  Enough and proper Budget Allocation
b. How many and how much?
mortality rate (MMR), the targeted MMR
of 52:100,000 MMR in 2015, the MMR  26,000 barangay doesn’t have BHS
went up to 221:100,000.  instead of reducing the maternal
mortality rate (MMR), the targeted
MMR of 52:100,000 MMR in 2015,
e. How to produce?
the MMR went up to 221:100,000.
Produce a lower costs of medicines  The Secretary of Health declared that
Or what they called generics because it has also at least 33 of the 72 public hospitals
Same effects with branded medicines but just
A cheaper one will be privatized to gain financial
 with the proper budget autonomy. This policy would deprive
allocation we can produce an exact budget the poor of health care services
 immediate production because corporations, to be
hospital
 capital and labor intensive financially viable, will have to require
f. Whom to produce? patients to pay.
 > Budget: DOH  The health budget allocated for the
 Drugs & Medicines: year 2017 is not commensurate to
Distributors
the needs of Filipinos and still far
Budget
g. What price to produce? from the 5% of the Gross Domestic
 Cheap price Product standard.
 Low cost yet effective
 c. How to produce? c. how to produce?
 They can produce skilled and professional  Immediate production
Nurses and doctors by means of granting scholarships
hospitals
 Produce a lower costs of medicines
Or what they called generics because it has also  Capital and labor intensive
Same effects with branded medicines but just  They can produce preventives,
A cheaper one promotive aspects of health
like immunizations by means
 with the proper budget
allocation we can produce an exact budget of the research based by our
 immediate production researchers
hospital  Eliminate measles with the
 capital and labor intensive
use of proper medications
d. whom to produce?
 Health Care provider: Health  Produce a lower costs of
Care institutions and health educational medicines
Institutions Or what they called generics because it has also
 Budget: DOH Same effects with branded medicines but just
 Drugs & Medicines: A cheaper one
Distributors 
 Phycisians and Hospitals
e. What price to produce? d. Whom to produce?
 Cheap price
 Distributors
 Low cost yet effective
 Department of Health
 Laborers

e. What Price to produce?

 Cheap Price
 Low cost