Accurate medical diagnosis is the key to successful therapy. This book offers a diagnosis of the Philippine health delivery system, a difficult but important task considering its critical state.

In lay person's terms, this book seeks to explain the facts behind the cold figures of morbidity, mortality and malnutrition. It reexamines myths surrounding health and medicine, challenging medical elitism and the compulsion to equate effective health are with miracle drug cures, high-rise hospitals and high-tech medical gadgets.....all of which do exist in the Philippines even as the health problems remain basically unchanged over the last decades.

This book was produced on the premise that health and illness are social phenomena, determined not just by germs, but also by economics and political will. It probes for answers to the nagging question of why Filipinos view simple, preventable and curable illnesses as major catastrophe. It also asks other questions--- " Why are drug prices high?", " Why is there less access to doctors and nurses even as medical and nursing schools proliferate?"---- which can no longer be evaded, even by the most jaded physician, politician or pharmaceutical executive. 

RA 418.3 P6 C37

Caring enough to cure: Diagnosing the disease-poverty syndrome

Council for Primary Health Care

1986

Social science--Philippines