scholarly journals Exploring the Health Outcomes of Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Philippines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericson H. Peñalba
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Support Mechanism

The Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps), the first conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Philippine government, has become a popular approach aimed at improving the health and educational status of disadvantaged households. Its implementation is expected to advance the government’s health agenda, particularly in terms of child mortality reduction and maternal health improvement. Despite the growing evidence on the positive health outcomes resulting from the implementation of CCT programs, evidence remains limited to the qualitative evaluation of health care service utilization among beneficiary households. In this regard, by employing key interviews and focus group discussion, this study aims to examine the impacts of 4Ps on health and nutrition as experienced and perceived by beneficiaries at a community-level implementation. After subjecting the interview transcripts to thematic network analysis, the results reveal six dominant themes: enhanced health practices, improved uptake of health care services, increased awareness on health issues, improved living conditions, responsive program implementation, and persisting implementation challenges. While it is evident that the positive impacts are reflective of the beneficiaries’ strict compliance to meet the program conditionalities, there is still much to be done to ensure the sustainability of the program. The provision for adequate health care should then be supplemented with reinforced delivery of the program’s learning component (family development session) and support mechanism to the implementers.

Community participation in rural primary health care: intervention or approach?

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Preston ◽  
Hilary Waugh ◽  
Sarah Larkins ◽  
Judy Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Primary Health

Community participation is considered important in primary health care development and there is some evidence to suggest it results in positive health outcomes. Through a process of synthesising existing evidence for the effectiveness of community participation in terms of health outcomes we identified several conceptual areas of confusion. This paper builds on earlier work to disentangle the conceptual gaps in this area, and clarify our common understanding of community participation. We conducted a research synthesis of 689 empirical studies in the literature linking rural community participation and health outcomes. The 37 final papers were grouped and analysed according to: contextual factors; the conceptual approach to community participation (using a modification of an existing typology); community participation process; level of evidence; and outcomes reported. Although there is some evidence of benefit of community participation in terms of health outcomes, we found only a few studies demonstrating higher levels of evidence. However, it is clear that absence of evidence of effect is not necessarily the same as absence of an effect. We focus on areas of debate and lack of clarity in the literature. Improving our understanding of community participation and its role in rural primary health care service design and delivery will increase the likelihood of genuine community–health sector partnerships and more responsive health services for rural communities.

scholarly journals What is the relative impact of primary health care quality and conditional cash transfer program in child mortality?

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. 756-767
Author(s):  
Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira-Meyer ◽  
Maria Socorro de Araújo Dias ◽  
Maristela Ines Osawa Vasconcelos ◽  
Emilia Soares Chaves Rouberte ◽  
Ana Mattos Brito de Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Relative Impact ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer Program

scholarly journals Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orazio P. Attanasio ◽  
Veruska Oppedisano ◽  
Marcos Vera-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Children Health ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer Program

We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfilment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children born after the mother registered in the program are 50 percent lower because they are excluded from the conditionality requirement. Using the same variation, we also show that attendance to preventive care improves children health. (JEL H23, I12, I18, I38, J13, J16, O15)

Substantial Educational and Health Improvement of Indigenous Learner Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Program

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
HESED A. SORIANO LIM ◽  
HELEN Q. OMBLERO
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfer ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Government

The Indigenous People experienced substantial life improvement upon joining the Poverty Alleviation Program of the Government (Conditional Cash Transfer). The objective of the study was to determine the economic, health, education and life experiences of beneficiaries before and after implementation of the 4P’s. Twelve (12) housewives responded in the In-depth Interview conducted. The study employed the thematic process of interviewing, listening, and taking down notes on the narrated stories. Data categorization and classification were employed for deeper understanding. Hermeneutic approach was used to understand culture. The use of phenomenological method obtained meanings from participants’ point of view, experiences, and perceptions. Findings revealed that beneficiaries obtained substantial life after joining the Pantawid Pamilya Program. The beneficiaries gratefully expressed that their kids were able to attend school regularly and health education was reinforced as to constant monitoring health monitoring is conducted by the health workers assigned in the area. This program ends in 2015; however, we highly recommend the continuance of the program for the betterment and improved quality of life of the indigenous people beneficiaries.Keywords: Social Science, Poverty, Indigenous, Phenomenology, Conditional Cash Transfer, Hermeneutic Approach, Philippines

The Great Awakening - Digitalization in Dental Healthcare during the pandemic COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Yojana Patil ◽  
Aishwarya Rajesh Shinde ◽  
Sangeeta Kumar ◽  
Pratik Phansopkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Record System ◽  
The World

disease in 2019, also called COVID-19, which has been widely spread worldwide had given rise to a pandemic situation. The public health emergency of international concern declared the agent as the (SARS-CoV-2) the severe acute respiratory syndrome and the World Health Organization had activated significant surveillance to prevent the spread of this infection across the world. Taking into the account about the rigorousness of COVID-19, and in the spark of the enormous dedication of several dental associations, it is essential to be enlightened with the recommendations to supervise dental patients and prevent any of education to the dental graduates due to institutional closure. One of the approaching expertise that combines technology, communications and health care facilities are to refine patient care, it’s at the cutting edge of the present technological switch in medicine and applied sciences. Dentistry has been improved by cloud technology which has refined and implemented various methods to upgrade electronic health record system, educational projects, social network and patient communication. Technology has immensely saved the world. Economically and has created an institutional task force to uplift the health care service during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. Hence, the pandemic has struck an awakening of the practice of informatics in a health care facility which should be implemented and updated at the highest priority.

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