After 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or CARP in 1987, evidence to suggest that it has contributed to solving the poverty problem in the Philippine rural sector remains deficient. After spending a total of P137 billion1 on land distribution and support services to the program beneficiaries, the outcome is deemed lacking in terms of achieving social justice for...

background: cancer-screening programs are effective in reducing cancer prevalence and mortality; however, cancer remains the leading cause of death in elderly people in korea. the aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with elders’ participation in the national cancer screening program (ncsp) and differences in screening rates by gender. methods: original data from the korea n...

To determine the incidence of galactosemia (GAL) in the Philippines and to determine whether newborn screening for GAL is cost-beneficial from a societal perspective, cost-benefit analysis was performed. Newborn screening for GAL was done after the 24th hour of life using the Beutler test. Patients screened positive were recalled for confirmatory testing. Using incidence rates obtained from the...

In this paper, I estimate the health return to local funds across tiers of local government in the context of the Philippine fiscal and administrative devolution. After 1992, the Philippine national government increased markedly the amount of national tax revenues transferred in block grants to the highest level of local government -the provinces and cities. The fiscal devolution coincided with...

989 Environmental Threats to the Health of Children: The Asian Perspective David O. Carpenter,1 Fook Tim Chew,2 Terri Damstra,3 Le Hung Lam,4 Philip J. Landrigan,5 Irma Makalinao,6 Genandrialine L. Peralta,7 and William A. Suk 8 1School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, USA; 2Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, ...

O ne hundred and fifty years ago, José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda was born on June 19, 1861 to Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Morales Alonzo Realonda y Quintos in Calamba, Laguna, the Philippines.(1) A national hero of the Philippines, he is arguably the most revered Filipino of all time. Numerous streets, various institutions and a whole province are nam...

The aim of cancer prevention is to develop methods, plans or policy for interventions that will benefit the population, as well as develop systems for monitoring and evaluating these interventions in the future. The purpose of interventions is to reduce the incidence, morbidity, mortality rates of cancer and cost of cancer management. Because the modes of interventions that will be employed inv...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of 'village health worker training program' which aimed to build community participatory health promotion capacity of community leaders in villages of low developed country and to develop methods for further development of the program. METHODS The intervention group were 134 community leaders from 25 barangays (village). Contro...

3 views of the Philippine Population Program under the Aquino government are presented: the first states the government's position on population programs and the next 2 criticize that position. Issued by the Commission on Population (POPCOM) in early 1987, the first statement establishes the government's stance on population programs. It explains that the 1987 Philippine Constitution reaffir...