'Kontra-Partido': Untangling Oppositional Local Politics and Healthcare Devolution in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Yu, Vincen Gregory, Lasco, Gideon, David, Clarissa C, Baysic, Ivyrose
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: decentralization; Health governance; health workforce; politics of health; the Philippines; Health Services Administration; Medicine and Health Sciences; Other Public Health; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/270; https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad039
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

A long-recognized problem of healthcare devolution in many developing countries is its inextricability from the influences of local politics. This has been particularly self-evident in the Philippines, where, since the adoption of the Local Government Code of 1991, the devolution of health governanc...