Background. The Republic Act 7305 or the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers was enacted in 1992 to address health workers' welfare. However, the implementation of this act was reportedly inconsistent among local government units (LGUs). Objectives. This study was conducted to determine the implementation status of provisions under the law among LGUs. Methods. This is a descriptive case study employing mixed methods. The quantitative data were derived from LGU scorecards, and the qualitative data were obtained from focus group discussions and key informant interviews of mayors, municipal health officers, and budget officers. Results. A total of 1,557 LGU scorecards with 2017 data showed that more than half (52.0%) of LGUs do not provide the full benefits of hazard pay, subsistence allowance, and laundry allowance. Disaggregation by income class showed that the provision of benefits is higher among LGUs with higher income classes (56.10%) compared to LGUs of lower-income classes (38.73%), and this translates to a correlation of income class with the provision of benefits (χ2=59.0, p<0.001). Factors influencing the provision of benefits include the political will of the mayor, the active role of municipal health staff to lobby for their rights, the limited resources of the LGU, the personnel services budget ceiling, the lack of enforcement of the law, and the limiting specifications of the law. Conclusion. This study demonstrated that the Magna Carta benefits for public health workers in municipalities and cities are inadequately implemented. Local governments must enforce public health workers' rights and benefits, but the national government should aid and ensure its unvarying implementation.
Humans ; Public Health ; Public Policy ; Health Policy

(1) Some salient results attained: supply drug for people, manufacture, circulation, raising quality of drug; using safely sensibly drug; Strengthen governmental management task of drug, strengthen education. (2) challenges: organizational, realization ability of Party, Governmental policy have remainly limited. Health budget has not increased; Influence of market mechanism; Balance between preventive task and treatment
Public Policy ; Pharmacopoeias

This paper introduced 6 orientations to realize the National Drug Policy in second stage (2001-2005) including: circulation, manufacture; drug quality guarantee; manpower education; scientific studies; realization of the National Drug Policy about traditional pharmaco medical branch. International cooperation information; management and organization
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Public Policy

The situation of the supplying curative and preventive medicine in Kh¸nh Hßa province was studied during 1993-1998: The average money for drug per capita, the network for drug selling in the local level, the activities of drug and treament commission in the district and provincial level and in some professional medical units, and the medical equipments are evaluated. From which, it should produce the orientations for strengthening national drug policy in locality
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Public Policy

Quantitative assessments of the health status of a population are essential to make decisions and set priorities in the field of public health. Changing epidemiologic patterns increase the demand for comprehensive estimates of population health across the full health spectrum, including non-communicable diseases and injuries. Burden of disease (BoD) analysis has helped meet this need. With the success of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study, the BoD technique has become predominantly associated with the GBD approach and its methodology using disability-adjusted life year (DALY) has been rapidly disseminated and generally accepted over the last several years. The first Korean BoD study using the DALY metric was presented in 2002. Various BoD studies have since been conducted, but the DALY concept has remained primarily academic and has not yet been actively utilized in the health policy arena. Here, we review the DALY metric and population-based Korean BoD studies using national health data, with the intent of increasing the understanding of their value and their potential role in strengthening future assessments of the Korean population’s health status.
Health Policy ; Korea* ; Public Health

The drug price is being a consideration of the community. In situation of unstable drug price, the state should promulgate a national policy for drug price to normalize the drug price and pharmaceutical market. This paper introduced 3 major orientations to contribute to construction of policy of drug price and solutions for implementing this policy.
Public Policy ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Commerce

Summary of health tasks in past years. The premises and major challegenes with health task in first years of 21st century. Systemic opinions about health task and 5 major policies is needed to currently focus in realization
Delivery of Health Care ; Public Policy

Population ordinance was approved by standing committee of National Assembly in January 9th 2003 and became effective from May 1st 2003. It included 6 chapters that stated the importance of population policy in strategies of social economic development of Vietnam, and had basic orientations of population policy in order to control actively population scale and improve population quality
Population ; legislation & jurisprudence ; Public Policy

Evaluation of the implementation of the equitableness policy in health care service at the 20 villages of Son La, Nghe An, Soc Trang and Binh Phuoc in 2004. The results: the equitableness policy in the health care service has been well implemented by the local governments including health care service and finance resulted in enhancing trust of the local people. Regulations and policies for the local health care staff have been well implemented by the local governments, especially after the occurrence of Decision 58, 131 and Circular Letter 08. However, some limitations, including: training, salary and duty subsidy regulations have not been well implemented in some medical stations, some positions in medical station have not appointed formally as pharmacological and traditional medicine’s nurse
Delivery of Health Care ; Public Policy

China ; Health Policy ; Public Health