scholarly journals Towards National Health Recovery: Call for Intensified Science-based Information Campaigns on Vaccines against COVID-19 in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. em0090
Author(s):  
Erwin E. Rotas
Keyword(s):  
National Health ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Information Campaigns

scholarly journals Dengue at the time of COVID-19 in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Xerxes Seposo
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
National Health ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Epidemic Curve

Cases of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have been increasing since the virus emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. As of 13 March 2021, confirmed COVID-19 cases have exceeded 119 million infected individuals across 188 countries, with more than 2.6 million recorded deaths. National health systems have attempted to contain the pandemic through control measures such as community quarantine and isolation. In the Philippines, an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) took effect on 15 March 2020 in an effort to flatten the epidemic curve.2 ECQ involves placing stringent limitations on people’s mobility and strict regulations on various industry operations, all of which are enforced by uniformed personnel. In spite of the ECQ, active infections have been steadily increasing in the country, at 611 618 total cases and 12 694 deaths as of 13 March 2021.

Case Study: Needs-Based Technology Assessment and Essential National Health Research: Experience in the Philippines

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-699
Author(s):  
Tessa L. Tan-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Health ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Research ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
The Difference

AbstractEssential national health research (ENHR) ensures that health research will be undertaken in priority areas defined by the people and will be used in decision making. Needs-based technology assessment (NBTA) is anchored on the ENHR philosophy. Two case studies are presented, one illustrating a successful application of NBTA and the other a failed approach. Reasons for the difference in success are examined.

scholarly journals Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesi Cruz ◽  
Philip Keefer ◽  
Julien Labonne
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
Electoral Accountability ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Neutral Information ◽  
Electoral Equilibrium

Abstract Despite the prominence of information in theories of electoral accountability, providing voters with information often fails to improve politician performance. Using two experiments in the Philippines, we show that when voters are unfamiliar with basic government capabilities, merely informing them of what politicians could do is sufficient to decrease support for incumbents. However, politicians can counteract this decrease in support by increasing clientelistic practices such as vote buying. Our work shows how even neutral information campaigns can improve the leverage of voters vis-a-vis their politicians, offering guidance for the design of interventions to change the electoral equilibrium in clientelistic countries.

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