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RAMON MAGSAYSAY
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER GRADUATE SCHOOL
892
Rural Health Units
99
Gov t Hospitals
have no accreditation by PhilHealth, when majority of poor Filipinos turn to government facilities for medical attention.
41%
Rural Areas
79%
Gov t Hospitals
Why?
Inadequate investment
Total expenditure on health as Per capita government a % of GDP (2007) expenditure on health (PPP int. $) Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar 2.4 5.9 2.2 4.0 4.4 1.9 958 31 44 16 268 2
Philippines
Singapore Timor-Leste Thailand Vietnam
3.9
3.1 13.6 3.7 7.1
45
536 98 209 72
Life Population Population expectancy ages 0-14 ages 15-64 (%) at birth (%) (years)
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 53.2 57.2 61.1 65.4 69.5 45.9 45.3 43.1 40.7 37.8 51.1 51.8 53.7 56.1 58.7
2009
72.1
33.9
61.9
THE WORLD BANK
3.0
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
Changing age distribution results in having majority of a population belonging to the productive labor force.
ADVANCED EDUCATION
Graduate health education anchored on R&D Distributing nursing & medicine graduates to serve the population, especially in rural areas.
Of the estimated 2.77 million students enrolled in the tertiary and postgraduate levels in 2009-2010, only an estimated 395,000 went into medical and allied health services.
Occupation
Physicians per 1,000 people Brunei (2000) Cambodia (2000) Indonesia (2003) Lao PDR (1996) Malaysia (2000) Myanmar (2004) 1.01 0.16 0.13 0.59 0.70 0.36
Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people 2.67 0.61 0.62 1.03 1.35 0.38
Philippines (2000)
Singapore (2001) Timor-Leste (2004) Thailand (2000) Vietnam (2001)
0.58
1.40 0.10 0.37 0.53
1.69
4.24 1.79 2.82 0.56
1
Enrollment in high demand yet unsaturated medical courses
Currently, we have an oversupply of registered nurses, physical therapists, optometrists and occupational therapy. Meanwhile, we lack medical doctors, doctors of dental medicine, medical technologists and pharmacists.
2
School s curricula should provide quality of instruction and research.
School already doing this are:
3
Brain gain, keep our health professionals
Not only is compensation the reason professionals go abroad, but better opportunities for higher learning actual practice.
NEW FRONTIERS
NEW FRONTIERS
Neurosciences, embryonic stem cell lines and stem cell biology at the University of California
NEW FRONTIERS
NEW FRONTIERS
23 leading research-intensive universities globally combined 830,000 students research grant income of US$4B
AGING
It is a biological process which we can cope with through intervention, treatment and therapy. Biotechnology, stem cell therapy and genomics will provide key solutions to enhance the body's ability self-repair and make the period of peak health longer
Going toward the future, we must ensure that our strategies for quality healthcare cover both curative and preventive aspects.
The goal should be to continuously find means to boost the well-being of all members of society, regardless of age.
Health education, and its applications, must not only help uphold the right to live, but most importantly the right to live well.