Jenny Bituin

Thank you for sharing the case study, Wah Wah. It’s interesting to know about BHS (Basic Health Staff) in Myanmar. In the Philippines, we also use the acronym BHS, which stands for Barangay Health Station. Barangay Health Stations are community-based healthcare facilities found in barangays (villages).

Thank you for sharing about the UHC scheme in Myanmar. I applaud the groups/organizations who keep the primary care system running despite the challenges. I agree that funding/aid should go directly to them.

I would like to share this case study, titled “Three Decades of Devolution in the Philippines: How This Has Shaped Health Financing and Public Financial Management Reforms”. This study was published in 2022 and developed with the support from ThinkWell and World Health Organization. It is part of a series produced to explore the implications of…[Read more]

Republic Act No. 11223, otherwise known as the Universal Health Care Act, was enacted in the Philippines in 2019. It has two general objectives: (1) to progressively realize universal health care in the country through a systemic approach and clear delineation of roles of key agencies and stakeholders towards better performance in the health…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing, Nang Phyoe! Giving hardship allowance to healthcare workers seems like a good idea. In the Philippines, I think only public school teachers were entitled to a hardship allowance.

Thank you for sharing! I agree, since a health system will not function without health workers, their safety and protection must be a top priority.

Hello, Hteik Htar. I am sorry to hear about the dangers health workers are facing in Myanmar. I admire the courage of health workers like you who continue to serve the people despite the threats.

Yes, there is a big difference in the access and quality of care between rural and urban setting. In the Philippines, one way to close this gap is through mobile health clinics. A mobile health clinic is a customized vehicle—often a van or bus—equipped with medical supplies and staffed by healthcare professionals. They allow healthcare pro…[Read more]

In the Philippines, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are hailed as modern-day heroes because of their contribution to the Philippine economy through their remittances, and because of their resilience and sacrifices to work abroad in order to support their family at home. However, outward migration of health workers, especially nurses, has been a…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing! It is nice to know about the advantages and disadvantages of using EMR on conflict-affected EHOs.

In our healthcare facility, I think the things that we need the most for a smooth EMR system are hardware and human resource/manpower. We have not encountered any major problems with our EMR software which is a good thing, but we need more hardware and people that will be used/utilized exclusively for the EMR system.

Our healthcare facility uses Wireless Access for Health (WAH) as our EMR. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of using EMR over paper-based medical records based on my observations.

Good
1. Enables centralized management of patient records, all relevant patient information can be stored/found in the EMR
2. Patient records can be accessed…[Read more]

Here are my suggestions on coping with big health data challenges
1. Missing data
Some methods to deal with missing data are the following:
a) complete-case analysis (CCA)
– all persons with missing values on one or more variables are excluded from the analysis. This method has a lot of drawbacks and should be avoided in general because it…[Read more]

Here is my view on the four recommended points that public health professionals can do to fight corruption.
1. Convene key stakeholders in the health system
I agree with the authors that this is such a formidable task, similar to what is happening in the Philippines today, in relation to the investigations on the alleged corruption of flood…[Read more]

I would like to share about PhilHealth Check Utility (PCU) Liveness Check, a health system improvement introduced last October 2025 by PhilHealth, the government corporation tasked to administer the National Health Insurance Program of the Philippines. PCU is an online tool accessible via the PhilHealth Member Portal that allows individuals to…[Read more]

page 340, item 1. (Common misinterpretations of single P values)
P values are sometimes misinterpreted as the probability of the test hypothesis being true. For example, a P value equal to 0.40 does not mean that the null hypothesis has a 40% chance of being true. It simply indicates how close the data is to where the statistical model predicted…[Read more]

Hello everyone! I am Jenny Bituin, a nutritionist-dietitian from the Philippines. I currently works as a local nutrition action officer in our town, responsible for managing nutrition programs, supervising volunteer nutrition workers, and providing nutrition and other related services. A part of my work that is related to statistics is collecting…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing the procedures and technology for the disaster recovery plan of your INGO.

Thank you for sharing! I agree, maintaining a paper-based system is also important in disaster recovery.

Our organization is a Rural Health Unit (RHU), a local government-owned health facility that provides basic and comprehensive health services to our municipality. For our organization’s disaster recovery plan, the procedures that should be included are the following:
1. Creation of the Disaster Recovery Committee/Team
2. Identification and A…[Read more]