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Integration of the Filipino culture in the health care interventions of Filipino Americans can be useful in improving participation and health outcomes. Tailoring health screening recruitment strategies, educational materials that build on existing values, and employing Filipino staff who reflect the population have been seen to improve ...
Health care in the Philippines has been defined by the World Health Organization as "fragmented", meaning there's a large gap between the quality and quantity of health services for the poor and the rich. With different reasons such as low budget, low number of personnel, or general neglect for the poor, the Philippines has always been unable ...
Early beliefs of health and illness in the Philippines were in conjunction with beliefs of mysticism and superstitions. [3] The cause of a disease was believed to be either another person, who was an enemy, or a wizard, or evil spirits. Filipinos were careful not to upset other people or the evil spirits for the good of their health. These evil ...
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Catipon said many of her Filipino American clients withhold their mental health concerns from their parents because being “crazy” might make their parents feel like they’ve done a bad job of ...
As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]
The history of medicine in the Philippines discusses the folk medicinal practices and the medical applications used in Philippine society from the prehistoric times before the Spaniards were able to set a firm foothold on the islands of the Philippines for over 300 years, to the transition from Spanish rule to fifty-year American colonial embrace of the Philippines, and up to the establishment ...
Filipino nurses make up 4.5% of the nursing population but account for 25% of COVID deaths. At the height of the pandemic, nurses played a huge part in saving lives, but some — especially ...