The role of universal health insurance coverage and health systems performance in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Lavado, Rouselle F., Lagrada, Leizel P., Gozun, Brian C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Public health administration—Philippines; Health insurance—Philippines—Finance; Medicine and Health; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7296
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the performance of public health unites in terms of efficiency in the delivery of quality health services and assesses how universal health insurance coverage can drastically improve the health and well-being of Filipinos. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the e...