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The Philippines faces a large burden of disease: Proportional Death due to NCDs. The main Non-Communicable Diseases are Diabetes, Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Chronic diseases that affect the airways and lungs. While these diseases affect different parts of the body in different ways, they often share common origins.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
The largest three poverty-related diseases (PRDs)—AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis—account for 18% of diseases in poor countries. [56] The disease burden of treatable childhood diseases in high-mortality, poor countries is 5.2% in terms of disability-adjusted life years but just 0.2% in the case of advanced countries. [56]
The Philippines would not record any further case of the human mpox. In May 2023, the public health emergency of the WHO was declared over. Meanwhile, the country's health department never declared a health emergency. [28] There has been five more cases since then, bringing the total number of cases to nine. The last three cases were in ...
The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines declared a measles outbreak in Metro Manila due to a 550% increase in the number of patients from January 1 to February 6, 2019, compared to figures of the equivalent period from 2018. [1] Outbreaks were also officially declared in Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Western Visayas, Central Visayas.
[8] [9] It is believed that the public's distrust in the country's poor healthcare system is a cause of the polio outbreak. [10] This is not the first disease outbreak in the Philippines in 2019. In February 2019, a measles outbreak occurred as a result of public distrust in the Philippines' poor healthcare system. [11]
Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis: 1.9: 0.26%: 11.4 Other chronic respiratory diseases: 0.7: 0.09%: −3.2 Digestive diseases 30.3: 4.11%: −10.7 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases 16.5: 2.24%: −9.7 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases due to hepatitis B: 4.8: 0.65%: −14.3 Cirrhosis and other chronic liver ...
COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines (4 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in the Philippines" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.