HEALTH

CARE
SECTOR
General Economic Resources (A)
Economic Resources Specific to Health (B)
Supply of Health Services (C )
Health Care Service Utilization (E)
Demand for Health Care Services (D)
Health Status (G)
Other Health Related and Socio-Economic Factors (F)

Activity/Case Study
This activity has two main objectives:
1.To appreciate the health sector of the
Philippines and compare it with different
countries; and
2.To develop skills on extracting health data
from internet sources

Activity 1
Choose two other countries aside from the
Philippines. Ideally, one country should be a
developed/industrialized country country
(USA, Canada, UK, Japan), another should be a
newly-industrializing country (Malaysia, South
Korea), and of course our developing country,
the Philippines.

Activity 2
Do an internet search. Using search engines

like www.google.com, or www.yahoo.com,

search for the Gross National Product, Gross
Domestic Product, and the Per Capita GNP or
GDP of the countries you chose. Accomplish
the table provided for such.
If you find it difficult to find the per capita
GNP or GDP, simply divide the GNP or GDP
with the total population of the countries in a
certain year.

GROSS
NATIONAL OR
DOMESTIC
PRODUCT
(US$)

COUNTRY

PHILIPPINES

COUNTRY 2
(

COUNTRY 3
(

Table 1: General Economic Resources

POPULATION

PER CAPITA
GNP OR GDP
(US $)

Activity 3
Again do an internet search. Look at the different

countries that you have listed in Table 1. Are the

countries economic performances far from one
another?
Do an internet search on the following
parameters for the countries you listed in Table
1.
1. Total expenditures for health (both private and
public health spending). You can look at this
index from each countrys national health
account.

2. Per capita health spending. This is how much

a certain country spends on each citizen for
health.
3. Total labor force of each country, then, total
number of manpower in the health sector.
What is the proportion of the health
manpower to the total labor force?
4. Search for the total number of hospital beds
in each of the countries. Compute the ratio of
population per hospital bed.

Activity 4
Philippines
Total
Expenditures
for Health
Per capita
expenditure
US$
Total number of
manpower in
the health
sector
Population per
hospital bed
ration

County A

Country B

Activity 5
Do an internet search and accomplish the

table below.PHILIPPINES
Life Expectancy
at Birth
Crude Death
Rate
Leading cause
of Mortality
Leading cause
of Morbidity

COUNTRY A

COUNTRY B

Activity 6
Write an essay with no more than 300 words,

explaining the relationships and

interconnections of the three tables.
Remember the structure of the health sector
to be able to do an organized analysis.