Health Policy Discussion Series: DOH-LGU Engagement
The DOH – Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau has conducted a session of the HEALTH POLICY DISCUSSION SERIES Speaker: Albert Francis E. Domingo, M.D. Consultant for the Health Sector Reform Monograph Series Health Policy Development Program (HPDP) Date: January 8, 2010 (Friday) Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Venue: Conference Room, [...]
Squaring Off: The Hospital Detention Law
I just came home from guesting on ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)’s debate program, Square Off. The proposition: Resolved, that Republic Act 9439 (Hospital Detention Law) should be repealed. A backgrounder: Last April, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) signed into law RA 9439 also known as “An act prohibiting the detention of patients in hospitals and [...]
Synthesis
(Last Part of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?) Even with the professional capabilities, technical considerations, and scientific advances of medical practice in the clinical setting, a US physician cannot dissociate him/herself from the material realities of cost and production in healthcare delivery. What is important is that no matter how strong the market forces [...]
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