ICT AS A POTENT TOOL IN TRANSFORMING PHILIPPINE EDUCATION (WITH INCLUSION OF TECHVOC EDUCATION)
Philippine Health Situation and ICT
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Philippine Health
Situation and ICT
Prepared by
Catherine M. Catamora
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Looking At: Philippine Health
Situation
• 50% of the population has no health care
access.
• 5 out of 10 Filipinos die without getting any
medical attention.
• Only 60% of the population has full access
to essential drugs.
• 10 mothers die daily due to pregnancy-
and childbirth-related causes.
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• Forty percent of all births are still
unattended by health professionals.
• More than 100 municipalities remain
doctorless and nurseless at any time
during the past ten years.
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Scarcity of Human Health
Resource
Philippines is the major exporter of nurses worldwide
• From 1994-2003: >100,000 nurses have left towork abroad
• 85% of Filipino nurses work abroad in some 50
countries (approx. 163,756 nurses in 2003)
• increasing and deteriorating quality of nursingeducation:170 (1990s) 251 (2003) 470(2006)
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• Doctors becoming nurses to go abroad
• Obstetricians and anesthesiologists are
rapidly depleting, followed by pediatricians
and surgeons.
• Nursing as a “second course”
• Hospitals in Mindanao and Isabela also have
no doctors
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Figure 2. Trend of Deployment of Health Workers Abroad, 1992-2003
DENTISTS
DIETITIANS AND PUBLIC
HEALTH NUTRITIONISTS
DOCTORS MEDICAL
MIDWIVES PROFESSIONAL
NURSES PROFESSIONAL
OPTOMETRISTS AND
OPTICIANS
PHARMACISTS
PHYSIOTHERAPISTS AND
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
TECHNICIANS MEDICAL X-RAY
CAREGIVERS AND
CARETAKERS
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Where do they go?
• Traditional Markets: Middle East, North
America
• New Markets: Europe especially UK,
Netherlands, High Income Asia
• Emerging Markets: Japan and Nurse
Education abroad
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Proposed solution to the situation
• Regulate the outflow of health professionals
• Increase health budget, improve the salaries &working conditions of healthworkers/professionals
• National Health Service Act (2-year service inthe Philippines)
• Compensation from receiving countries
• Bilateral agreements with Receiving Countries
• Establishment of Health professional registry• Development of new career opportunities
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IT in Health care another
solution…
• improving health services through IT• Improved health through data for evidence-
based decision-making
• Better measurement, through strengthened
health information and statistical systems• Network to unify partners and resources for improved health information
• Better data - better decisions - better health
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On going projects in IT
• Regulatory – BFAD, Drug testing..
• Service delivery – Hospital operation,
Blood Bank, Filariasis, Malaria, disease
registries, surveillance systems..• Governance- Procurement & Logistics
Management, e-NGAs, KM tools, Work &
Financial Plan Health Atlas, Local Health
System, GIS, HR..
VALDEZ, 2007
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• Public health data
• Hospital data
•Disease Surveillance
•Health Accounts
•Censuses
•Vital Statistics
•Survey Data
•Regulation Data
•Administrative Data
•Qualitative Data such as GoodPractices
•Journals, Manuals, other graymaterials
HealthInformation
System(ICT)
VALDEZ, 2007
Health Information
System
Comprehensive
Approach
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Activities Undertaken
• Establishment of Philippine Health Information Network(PHIN)
• Customization of Health Metric Network (HMN)assessment tool
• Central office inventory of existing ISs
• NEC started integration of Disease SurveillanceSystems
• BLHD spearheading skills development &documentation of good practices
• Draft framework for ISs technical integration
• Development of the Knowledge Management (KM) for Health Strategy
• KM tool kits defined and started development
• Health portal (interactive website)
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Philippine Health Information
Network
• DOH
• NSO
• NSCB
• PCHRD• UPCM
• POPCOM
• National Nutrition
Council• FNRI
• DILG
• WHO
• GTZ
• JICA• Academe
• Medical societies