UCHP

Reforms needed to lower out-of-pocket health spending

By Irma Isip Out-of-pocket payments (OOP) in the Philippines remain high despite improved government allocation for health spending. Unilab Center for Health Policy (UCHP), a program of Unilab Foundation, in  a research paper...
Total monthly retail payments in the Philippines grew from 42.1 percent in 2022 to 52.8 percent in 2023. (Reuters Photo)

BSP enhances e-payments

The Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved amended guidelines on the “Settlement of Electronic Payments under the National Retail Payment System (NRPS) Framework” as part of ongoing efforts to ensure integrity and...
Dr Zee Ying Kiat Senior Consultant Medical Oncology

Prioritizing cancer control

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with nearly twenty million new cases of cance recorded along with 9.7 million deaths in 2022. Because of this, specialized cancer-care institutions in Southeast Asia, such as Parkway Cancer...

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