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'The health system remains to be defined by health inequality and inequity across the rich-poor and urban-rural spectra. This is compounded by a fragmented healthcare delivery system...and a decentralized form of health governance' COVID19PH
With the recent presidential announcement of the extension and relaxation of enhanced community quarantine in high-risk and low-risk areas respectively, the Philippines is abuzz with daily ruminations of existence – newcases, deaths, recoveries – questions of epidemiology – flattening the curve, doubling rate, second wave – and prospects for survival in the age of the new normal – physical distancing, social amelioration, stimulating the economy.
The Philippines, thanks to advances in science and health research development and increasing spending, had seen an improving trend in health outcomes. However, the health system remains to be defined by health inequality and inequity across the rich-poor and urban-rural spectra.
Our current COVID-19 experience validates this. COVID-19 response in the country has become bigger than the Department of Health, bigger than the health sector. It has ceased to be a health issue. It is now a health, defense, economic, social, political, religious, even existential issue. The usual tools of medicine and public health are being used but with much inputs and expertise coming also from other sectors and disciplines.
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