Staffing and Workload in Primary Care Facilities of Selected Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Communities in the Philippines.

Background And Objective: Staffing shortages and health inequities are persistent barriers in the Philippines toward achieving universal health care. To ensure an adequate and responsive health workforce, there is a need to evaluate the Human Resources for Health (HRH) status across health facilities, particularly those in underserved communities. Hence, this study aims to determine the staffing requirements and workload pressure among primary care facilities in selected geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) in the Philippines.

Nursing informatics: challenges to Philippine nursing curriculum.

The University of the Philippines College of Nursing curriculum has been the foundation of most of the curriculum in the country. But such is inferior with the current global health care delivery system. With Telehealth as the current program launched as an alternative medium to address health-care needs in geographically isolated areas through the use of ICT, nurses provide care for populations through electronic communication media and act as triage nurses who advise/consult with patients.

Telemedicine via Short Messaging System (SMS) in rural Philippines.

The University of the Philippines National Telehealth Center extended its services to the Doctor-to-the-Barrios program of the Department of Health through Short Messaging System telereferral system. This system enables physicians from remote and underserved rural communities to refer cases to domain experts from the University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital. Two hundred eighty-four cases were sent in a six-month period.