With a population of ninety million, spread over more than seven thousand islands, the Philippines needs to develop a health system that functions well across many geographic regions and diverse cultures. The devolution of the health system has caused healthcare management to be increasingly knowledge intensive and fragmented across the 1,600 autonomous municipalities and cities of the country.
Kalusugang Pangkalahatan, the Aquino Health Agenda for Universal Healthcare, is the national government initiative to provide healthcare for all Filipinos by 2015. ACCESS Health Philippines helps to close gaps in access to affordable and high quality healthcare in the country by creating linkages between local and international experts on health systems strengthening and by incubating health enterprises that will provide high quality and scalable services in the health market. We emphasize cultivating innovations through collaborations with industry, academia, and government. ACCESS Health Philippines works through a partnership approach, co-creating value with well established local and international partners.
Focus Areas
Healthcare Finance
See all Healthcare FinanceACCESS Health Philippines connects national policymakers, local governments, and healthcare providers to assist in providing universal health coverage.
The Philippine national government sponsors health insurance for those with low income through the National Health Insurance Program. The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, PhilHealth, is a government owned corporation attached to the Department of Health that manages the National Health Insurance Program. The mandate of PhilHealth is to provide health insurance coverage to all Filipinos. Since inception, PhilHealth has continued to expand benefit packages to cover catastrophic health expenses and underserved populations. PhilHealth now works with both public and private providers to deliver key healthcare services. ACCESS Health Philippines works closely with PhilHealth to assist with the design of new programs, especially those directed to improve maternal child health and primary care. ACCESS Health also plans to support the implementation of national health programs in local government settings.
One of the main responsibilities of ACCESS Health in health financing in the Philippines is to facilitate interaction between policymakers and practitioners managing health financing reforms in the Philippines with those in other countries. ACCESS Health does this through the Joint Learning Network.
Projects
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Center for Health Market Innovations
Center for Health Market Innovations
ACCESS Health is one of the organizations that creates content for the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Center is a digital platform that connects healthcare organizations and providers, researchers, and policymakers to learn about innovations that increase access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Most of our studies are of health programs in India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
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Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
The Learning Exchange provides funding to facilitate structured learning partnerships between or among organizations that are profiled by the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Learning Exchange will help programs improve business practices, adopt innovations, or scale up or replicate an aspect of their model to a new market.
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Joint Learning Fund
Joint Learning Fund
The Joint Learning Network established the Joint Learning Fund to support the ability of Network members to learn from each other on a range of topics, including expanded coverage, information technology, primary healthcare, provider payments, and quality improvement. Member countries use the Joint Learning Fund to support study tours, workshops, and exchange of personnel to learn from universal health coverage reform strategies that have been successful in other countries.
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Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
The Joint Learning Network brings together low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia to share experiences, challenges, and insights drawn from their efforts to achieve universal health coverage.
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Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
This book will share our experiences with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a program that brings together countries to share their experiences – their challenges and their successes – working toward universal health coverage. It is scheduled for completion by December 2014.
Healthcare Delivery Systems
See all Healthcare Delivery SystemsACCESS Health works closely with the government, private sector, and academia to improve healthcare delivery systems in the Philippines. We study, document, and analyze best practices in the healthcare delivery system. We advise on models of integrated healthcare with a focus on delivery models for primary healthcare, specifically in the areas of maternal and child health and tuberculosis. ACCESS Health works to increase access to affordable health technologies that improve the quality of healthcare services and the functioning of the healthcare delivery system. We believe that efficient healthcare delivery systems can improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare.
Projects
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Center for Health Market Innovations
Center for Health Market Innovations
ACCESS Health is one of the organizations that creates content for the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Center is a digital platform that connects healthcare organizations and providers, researchers, and policymakers to learn about innovations that increase access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Most of our studies are of health programs in India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
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Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
The Learning Exchange provides funding to facilitate structured learning partnerships between or among organizations that are profiled by the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Learning Exchange will help programs improve business practices, adopt innovations, or scale up or replicate an aspect of their model to a new market.
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Stop TB Now Project
Stop TB Now Project
The Stop TB Now Project strengthens the national effort of the Philippine government to combat tuberculosis. The project enhances local capacity to prevent, screen, treat, and track tuberculosis in children from low income areas.
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The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project trains and equips frontline community health workers in the Philippines with tablets and a mobile application. The project helps workers to monitor and communicate important information to expectant mothers and families. e-AKaP is a Tagalog acronym that stands for “e-Action for Universal Health.”
Program Areas
Maternal and Child Health
See all Maternal and Child HealthACCESS Health Philippines partners with the public and private sectors and local organizations to pilot and expand innovative initiatives in maternal and child health. Our projects support the efforts of the Philippine government to address challenges in access to healthcare services. The Philippines has struggled to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The unique geography of the Philippines makes it particularly difficult for people to access needed care. The government uses frontline health workers and local health centers as a primary strategy to bring healthcare to isolated and low income communities. ACCESS Health Philippines strengthens the capacity of community health workers and local health centers to deliver high quality care to mothers and children.
Projects
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Center for Health Market Innovations
Center for Health Market Innovations
ACCESS Health is one of the organizations that creates content for the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Center is a digital platform that connects healthcare organizations and providers, researchers, and policymakers to learn about innovations that increase access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Most of our studies are of health programs in India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
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Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
The Learning Exchange provides funding to facilitate structured learning partnerships between or among organizations that are profiled by the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Learning Exchange will help programs improve business practices, adopt innovations, or scale up or replicate an aspect of their model to a new market.
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Joint Learning Fund
Joint Learning Fund
The Joint Learning Network established the Joint Learning Fund to support the ability of Network members to learn from each other on a range of topics, including expanded coverage, information technology, primary healthcare, provider payments, and quality improvement. Member countries use the Joint Learning Fund to support study tours, workshops, and exchange of personnel to learn from universal health coverage reform strategies that have been successful in other countries.
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Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
The Joint Learning Network brings together low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia to share experiences, challenges, and insights drawn from their efforts to achieve universal health coverage.
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Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
This book will share our experiences with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a program that brings together countries to share their experiences – their challenges and their successes – working toward universal health coverage. It is scheduled for completion by December 2014.
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Stop TB Now Project
Stop TB Now Project
The Stop TB Now Project strengthens the national effort of the Philippine government to combat tuberculosis. The project enhances local capacity to prevent, screen, treat, and track tuberculosis in children from low income areas.
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The 162to52 Coalition
The 162to52 Coalition
The 162to52 Coalition is an alliance of partners from several sectors that have come together to support the development of public private partnerships to improve maternal and child health. The partnerships strengthen local health systems in areas with limited resources and poor maternal and child health indicators.
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The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project trains and equips frontline community health workers in the Philippines with tablets and a mobile application. The project helps workers to monitor and communicate important information to expectant mothers and families. e-AKaP is a Tagalog acronym that stands for “e-Action for Universal Health.”
Healthcare Technology
See all Healthcare TechnologyHealth technology is revolutionizing the way healthcare is perceived and practiced in the Philippines. The country has one of the highest mobile phone usage rates in the world, and mobile use has significantly increased in rural areas. Because of its unique geography and robust technology sector, the Philippines should be able to lead the way in information and communications technology for health. ACCESS Health Philippines helps scale promising health technology pilot projects that bridge barriers to achieving universal health coverage, such as geographic fragmentation and lack of reliable health information.
Projects
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Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
The Learning Exchange provides funding to facilitate structured learning partnerships between or among organizations that are profiled by the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Learning Exchange will help programs improve business practices, adopt innovations, or scale up or replicate an aspect of their model to a new market.
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Joint Learning Fund
Joint Learning Fund
The Joint Learning Network established the Joint Learning Fund to support the ability of Network members to learn from each other on a range of topics, including expanded coverage, information technology, primary healthcare, provider payments, and quality improvement. Member countries use the Joint Learning Fund to support study tours, workshops, and exchange of personnel to learn from universal health coverage reform strategies that have been successful in other countries.
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Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
The Joint Learning Network brings together low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia to share experiences, challenges, and insights drawn from their efforts to achieve universal health coverage.
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Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
This book will share our experiences with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a program that brings together countries to share their experiences – their challenges and their successes – working toward universal health coverage. It is scheduled for completion by December 2014.
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Pinoy Health Innovations Project
Pinoy Health Innovations Project
ACCESS Health established the Pinoy Health Innovations Project in the Philippines. The project brings together healthcare providers, customers, and technology experts to explore some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare in the Philippines and to develop innovative technology solutions.
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The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project
The e-AKaP Project trains and equips frontline community health workers in the Philippines with tablets and a mobile application. The project helps workers to monitor and communicate important information to expectant mothers and families. e-AKaP is a Tagalog acronym that stands for “e-Action for Universal Health.”
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Featured Resources
- Book: Costing of Health Services for Provider Payment
- Case Study: FriendlyCare Clinic -- Philippines
- Report: Joint Learning Fund Activities 2011-2012
- Report: Joint Learning Fund Narrative and Financial Report: May 2013 - April 2014
- Report: Joint Learning Fund Narrative Report: 2013
- Report: Joint Learning Network Support Grant Narrative Report: January - December 2014
- Report: Lessons from the Management and Experiences of the Joint Learning Fund for Universal Health Coverage: May 2011-May 2014