Editing Philippines (section)

=== Health ===
{{Main|Health in the Philippines}}
[[File:Life expectancy in the Philippines.svg|thumb|alt=A steadily-rising graph until the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020|Life expectancy in the Philippines, 1938–2021]]

[[Health care in the Philippines]] is provided by the national and local governments, although private payments account for most healthcare spending.<ref name="DOH-2018">{{cite report |date=2018 |title=National Objectives for Health Philippines, 2017–2022 |url=https://www.doh.gov.ph/sites/default/files/health_magazine/NOH-2017-2022-030619-1(1)_0.pdf |journal=National Objectives for Health |location=Manila, Philippines |publisher=Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau, [[Department of Health (Philippines)|Department of Health]] |issn=1908-6768 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913150355/https://www.doh.gov.ph/sites/default/files/health_magazine/NOH-2017-2022-030619-1%281%29_0.pdf |archive-date=September 13, 2020 |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref>{{rp|pages=25–27}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Ordinario |first=Cai |date=October 26, 2018 |title=Out-of-pocket health expense of Pinoys rose in 2017–PSA |work=[[BusinessMirror]] |url=https://businessmirror.com.ph/2018/10/26/out-of-pocket-health-expense-of-pinoys-rose-in-2017-psa/ |access-date=April 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728061056/https://businessmirror.com.ph/2018/10/26/out-of-pocket-health-expense-of-pinoys-rose-in-2017-psa/ |archive-date=July 28, 2020}}</ref> Per-capita health expenditure in 2022 was {{Philippine peso|10,059.49|link=yes}} and health expenditures were 5.5 percent of the country's GDP.<ref>{{cite press release |title=The Country's Total Health Spending Contributes 5.5 Percent to the Economy in 2022 |url=https://psa.gov.ph/content/countrys-total-health-spending-contributes-55-percent-economy-2022 |access-date=August 30, 2023 |publisher=[[Philippine Statistics Authority|PSA]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901100356/https://psa.gov.ph/content/countrys-total-health-spending-contributes-55-percent-economy-2022 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The 2023 budget allocation for healthcare was {{currency|334.9&nbsp;billion|PHP|linked=no|passthrough=yes}}.<ref name="OneNews-MarcosSigns2023Budget" /> The 2019 enactment of the [[universal health care|Universal Health Care Act]] by President Duterte facilitated the automatic enrollment of all Filipinos in the [[Philippine Health Insurance Corporation|national health insurance program]].<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=de Vera |first=Ben O. |date=March 21, 2022 |title=Gov't subsidy to PhilHealth hits record-high in 2022 |language=en |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://business.inquirer.net/343893/govt-subsidy-to-philhealth-hits-record-high-in-2022 |access-date=November 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321033643/https://business.inquirer.net/343893/govt-subsidy-to-philhealth-hits-record-high-in-2022 |archive-date=March 21, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|date=March 14, 2019 |title=UHC Act in the Philippines: a new dawn for health care |work=[[World Health Organization]] |url=https://www.who.int/philippines/news/feature-stories/detail/uhc-act-in-the-philippines-a-new-dawn-for-health-care |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329031526/https://www.who.int/philippines/news/feature-stories/detail/uhc-act-in-the-philippines-a-new-dawn-for-health-care |archive-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref> Since 2018, [[Malasakit Center]]s (one-stop shops) have been set up in several government-operated hospitals to provide medical and financial assistance to indigent patients.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Ismael |first=Javier Joe |date=March 4, 2022 |title=151st Malasakit Center inaugurated in Quirino |language=en |work=[[The Manila Times]] |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/03/04/news/regions/151st-malasakit-center-inaugurated-in-quirino/1834988 |access-date=May 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305120759/https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/03/04/news/regions/151st-malasakit-center-inaugurated-in-quirino/1834988 |archive-date=March 5, 2022}}</ref>

Average life expectancy in the Philippines {{as of|2023|lc=y}} is 70.48 years (66.97 years for males, and 74.15 years for females).<ref name="CIAWorldFactBook" /> Access to medicine has improved due to increasing Filipino acceptance of [[generic drug]]s.<ref name="DOH-2018" />{{rp|page=58}} The country's leading causes of death in 2021 were [[ischaemic heart diseases]], [[cerebrovascular disease]]s, [[COVID-19]], [[neoplasm]]s, and [[diabetes]].<ref>{{cite report |last1=Mapa |first1=Dennis S. |author-link1=Dennis Mapa |title=Registered Deaths in the Philippines, 2021 |url=https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/specialrelease/SR%20Death%20Statistics%202021_0.pdf |publisher=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]] |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324134007/https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/specialrelease/SR%20Death%20Statistics%202021_0.pdf |archive-date=March 24, 2023 |page=6 |date=February 22, 2023}}</ref> [[Communicable disease]]s are correlated with natural disasters, primarily floods.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salazar |first1=Miguel Antonio |last2=Pesigan |first2=Arturo |last3=Law |first3=Ronald |last4=Winkler |first4=Volker |date=December 1, 2016 |title=Post-disaster health impact of natural hazards in the Philippines in 2013 |journal=[[Global Health Action]] |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=31320 |doi=10.3402/gha.v9.31320 |pmc=4871893 |pmid=27193265 |doi-access=free}}</ref> One million Filipinos have active [[tuberculosis]], the fourth highest global prevalence rate.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The social determinants of tuberculosis in the Philippines |journal=[[The Lancet]] |date=January 2022 |volume=10 |issue=1 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00516-7/fulltext}}</ref>

The Philippines has 1,387 [[List of hospitals in the Philippines|hospitals]], 33 percent of which are government-run; 23,281 barangay health stations, 2,592 rural health units, 2,411 [[Birthing center|birthing home]]s, and 659 infirmaries provide primary care throughout the country.<ref name="RVONL-HealthCare-2021">{{cite report |author1=Orange Health Consultants |title=Health Care in the Philippines |url=https://www.rvo.nl/sites/default/files/2021/06/Healthcare-in-The-Philippines.pdf |publisher=Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) |access-date=March 17, 2023 |location=Rotterdam, Netherlands |date=April 2021 |at=Organization of the health care system |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017093201/https://www.rvo.nl/sites/default/files/2021/06/Healthcare-in-The-Philippines.pdf |archive-date=October 17, 2021}}</ref> Since 1967, the Philippines had become the largest global supplier of nurses;<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cachero |first=Paulina |date=May 30, 2021 |title=How Filipino Nurses Have Propped Up America's Medical System |url=https://time.com/6051754/history-filipino-nurses-us/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530110820/https://time.com/6051754/history-filipino-nurses-us/ |archive-date=May 30, 2021 |access-date=November 11, 2022}}</ref> seventy percent of [[Nursing in the Philippines|nursing graduates]] go overseas to work, causing problems in retaining skilled practitioners.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lorenzo |first1=Fely Marilyn |last2=Galvez-Tan |first2=Jaime |last3=Icamina |first3=Kriselle |last4=Javier |first4=Lara |year=2007 |title=Nurse Migration from a Source Country Perspective: Philippine Country Case Study |journal=[[Health Services Research (journal)|Health Services Research]] |publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell Publishing]] |volume=42 |issue=3 (pt 2) |pages=1406–1418 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00716.x |pmc=1955369 |pmid=17489922}}</ref>