HEALTH SECTOR

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HEALTH SECTOR

• National Manpower Summit 2006
• Harmonization Workshop
• February 23, 2006
• DOLE Multi-Purpose Conference Room

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Growth and Potential

• Economic contribution
• In 2003
• total health expenditure (includes govt, social
  insurance and private spending/source) P136B
  representing 16 increase from 2002
• Share to GNP 2. 9
• Share to GDP (2002) 3.2
• Gross Value Added (2003) P69,496 M

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Growth and Potential

• Demand for health workers is driven by several
  factors
• Demand for specific types of health care
  services, which is driven by health care
  problems, perceived health care needs, health
  care seeking behavior of the population,
  diagnostic technologies
• Demand for culturally and linguistically
  competent services
• Licensure and certification requirements
• Salaries, wages, benefits and other incentives
  that services employers are willing to pay to
  obtain services of workers and to retain them

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Growth and Potential

• Local Employment
• Total employment registered an average annual
  growth rate of 3.32 from 2001-2005
• From 30,085,000 in 2001 to 32,876,000 in 2005
• Employment in the health and social work sector
  exhibited an average annual growth of 1.71 only
• From 339,000 in 2001 to 362,000 in 2005
• Government health service workers cannot increase
  due to limited plantilla positions available
• In 2004, average monthly income was only
  P10,440.00

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Growth and Potential

• Overseas Employment
• Health and social services workers comprised
  38.90 (or 627,165 out of 1,612,345) of total
  deployed (new hires) overseas from 2000-2005
• 21.78 are deployed in Saudi Arabia and 20.11 in
  Hongkong
• Increasing demand in countries with ageing
  population

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Growth and Potential (Overseas Employment
Prospects)
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Surplus/Deficits in HRH (based on workforce
projections)
Source HRH Master Plan 2005-2030
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Critical Skills
Source Provincial Skills Priorities
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Issues

• Inequitable distribution of health professionals
• Depletion of highly qualified doctors and other
  health professionals due to out migration
• Need to ensure quality standards in education and
  training for medical/health professionals/workers

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Proposed Policy Recommendation

• Enjoin LGUs to increase allocation for health
  services/facilities to address issues on
  retention of health workers, incentive and
  benefit package and health working condition

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• Thank You!!