Healthcare for all Filipinos.
Healthcare
Healthcare is a service that cares and ensures that a person stays healthy at all times. This is a service that is provided by only medical professionals. Not only does this service help in making people become healthy, but it is also a service that helps prevent people from being sick in the first place, by giving advices and warnings in regards to things like food, objects or other factors that can undoubtedly or possibly cause one’s health to be affected in a negative way.
The access to health services means "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Its the effort made to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially by trained and licensed professionals. Healthcare services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all people.
importance of healthcare
“Socioeconomic status is the most powerful predictor of disease, disorder, injury and mortality we have.”
- Tom Boyce, MD, chief of UCSF’s Division of Developmental Medicine
Referring to data from the World Bank and the WHO last 2017, Half the world lacks access to essential health services, 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses...It’s no secret that health expenses take up a lot of a families budget especially now that there’s so much pollution in our atmosphere and that respiratory infections and other illnesses are running rampant especially among children, according to the WHO. It’s also no secret that the poor are more susceptible to different illness and viruses compared to those who are able, simply because they can’t access it, either because they cannot afford it or there is no medical facility in their area. Another thing to look out for is the situation of medical workers in the Philippines...
“The WHO recommends that there should at least be 45 health workers for every 10,000 persons. But in the Philippines, the ratio is at only 19 per 10,000.”
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- Jovic Yee (2019) Philippines in midst of ‘health care crisis’.
Inquirer
This is due to low annual income/wage of medical workers and also the poor working conditions in public hospitals and medical centers here in the Philippines. And as a result, many of our medical workers end up leaving the country and work abroad because of the better wage and the better working conditions in other countries like the U.S.A. or Canada for example. This statistic will continue to get worse in the coming years since more of our healthcare workers would end up leaving the country if no action will be taken to improve the healthcare system and if there’s no improvement, then the poor and afflicted would become even more deprived of their healthcare.​
