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Nikolai Fedotovich Izmerov (Russian: Николай Федотович Измеров, 19 December 1927 – 23 December 2016) was a Soviet and Russian occupational hygienist and public figure, who made significant contributions to occupational hygiene. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Nikolai Izmerov was born in Frunze (Bishkek today), Kyrgyzstan in 1927, to Izmerov Fedot Fedotovich (1885) and Izmerova Evdokia Filatovna (née Shemilina) (1892). He was educated at a 10-years school in Jambul (Kyrgyzstan), and began studying to become a railway engineer. But after 2 years of study Izmerov entered the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov entered the Central Institute of Advanced Medical Training (1952) after graduation in the Tashkent Medical Institute and Clinical Training in Hygiene. After additional studying, he became a senior inspector in the Ministry of Health in 1953–1955.He prepared and defended the dissertation of the candidate of medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
He had been recommended to work in the World Health Organization (WHO) as assistant Director-General by the Ministry of Health; and he worked in Geneva for 7 years from 1964 to 1971. Izmerov was responsible for environmental health: environmental toxicants, water and air pollutants. He guided the United States to estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov returned to Moscow in 1971 and was elected head of the Research Institute of Occupational Health and Diseases (in Academy of Medical Sciences, the leading institute in this field in the USSR and in RF, and the world's oldest scientific institute of occupational diseases). As the head of the institute (director ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The institute became one of the leading occupational health institutes in the world. Izmerov signatories of the WHO "Declaration on Occupational Health for All" in 1994 as a director of a leading national OHS Institute.The institute established the Laboratory of Women's Occupational Health (in 1974), the Department of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
A characteristic feature of these works in the field of occupational health was their focus on the elimination of the causes of diseases and their prevention. This occupational medicine was integrated with the public health system and with the general sanitary hygiene services. According to Western hygienists, this fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov became a doctor of medical sciences in 1973; professor in 1977; and a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1980. He continued international activities as the institute director. Izmerov became an academician in 1986. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The institute developed exposure limits for chemicals, physical hazards., and non-toxic dust (which causes pneumoconiosis). If the low level of science and technology did not allow to fulfill the requirements, then the institute has developed a classification of working conditions according to the degree of danger (cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov led the development of risk assessment methods for the cases of the employee's simultaneous exposure to the various types of occupational hazards. The institute was established Museum of Occupational Hygiene in 1987Nikolai Izmerov published over 500 journal papers (and other publications), several textbooks and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The destruction of the planned Soviet economy dealt a heavy blow to the national economy, and a very strong blow to the occupational health and safety system. Academician Izmerov, as a highly qualified and experienced professional, was well aware of the consequences of irresponsible actions, and was sensitive to the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
This approach has been used in other countries later. For example, the Hyundai Motor Company used the instruction (which was translated from Russian to Korean) to organize the medical care of its employees But after 1991, the preservation of the negative tradition (not registering occupational diseases) allowed the new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
(and accidents) deprives the OHS system of the "feedback" pile: employers do not bear the consequences for irresponsible actions. In his eyes, the new owners of enterprises, interested only in obtaining financial profits in the short term, almost completely destroyed the medical units that were available in all large e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The significant deterioration of the conditions in the workplaces contributed to the sharp decline in life expectancy for men. For example, 65 years for those born in 1987 and only 57 years for those born in 1992. Those workers who reach retirement age suffered from one or two diseases in 70% of cases. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The reason is that employees work in poor conditions, did not undergo medical examinations, the diseases are detected too late and them not treatedAcademician Izmerov used all his authority and all his powers to change this situation. The concept and project of the Presidential Program “Health of the Working Population... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The program was not implemented; the registration of an insignificant share of occupational diseases was preserved, and it was supplemented by incomplete registration of fatal accidents at workplaces. Izmerov didn't hear from either the employers, or leaders of the country. Izmerov organized, and he led the preparation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov was married to Tatyana Nikolaevna Naumova (born 1924) in 1955. They lived together for 20 years, in 1961 their daughter Catherine was born. In 1976, a divorce occurred. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov married Natalia Ivanovna Demicheva (born 1947) in 1985. Natalia Ivanovna (born 1947) is a professor, dermatovenerologist, specialist in occupational diseases. He had two daughters, four granddaughters, and one grandson.Izmerov was fond of poetry, classical music, and ballet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Izmerov died on December 23, 2016, after a long and serious illness in Moscow, and was buried at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. The Research Institute of Occupational Medicine of the RAS was named after academician Izmerov in 2017 by order of the Director of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (FANO). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (in 1969 and 1977) Order of the October Revolution (1987) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd (2008), 3rd (2003) and 4th classes (1997). Laureate of the Russian Federation government prize in science and technology (2001). The title of "Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Izmerov |
The Religious Education Association is the world’s oldest and largest association of scholars and researchers in the field of religious education. It is a nonprofit member association, serving as a professional and learned society for scholars and researchers involved in the field of religious education. It has several... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
REA members are university and college professors, independent scholars, secondary teachers, clergy, church educators, curriculum developers, judicatory executives, seminarians, graduate students, and interested lay-people. REA members come from multiple faith traditions, and no tradition, and study a very diverse arra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
The REA was founded in 1903 by William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago, with the support of the Council of Seventy, a learned society of biblical scholars. The keynote speaker at its first convention was John Dewey. In its early years the Association was organized into several groups: Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
In 1906 the Association began to publish the journal Religious Education under the editorship of Henry Cope. In 1953 the Association marked its 50th anniversary with a three-day meeting at the University of Pittsburgh that brought together more than 2500 Christian and Jewish educators from the US and Canada. In 1973 th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
In 1975, the Association held a major national colloquy on civil religion at which scholars Robert Bellah, Vine DeLoria, Jr., and Michael Novak spoke. In 1992 the Association began awarding the Herman E. Wornom award to distinguished institutions. In 2003 the REA merged with the Association of Professors and Researcher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
The REA hosts an annual meeting, usually in early July. Meeting presentations occur in three formats: research interest group (a formal scholarly paper), collaborative session (engaging ideas from a number of scholars on the same theme), and poster (a typical scholarly poster presentation). The association has a long h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Education_Association |
The megaregions of the United States are generally understood to be regions in the U.S. that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems—of transport, economy, resources, and ecologies—experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, such that perceiving an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
America 2050, a project of the Regional Plan Association, lists 11 megaregions encompassing urban regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico (e.g. the Great Lakes and Northeast Megaregions). As of December 2000, these clustered networks of American cities contained an estimated total population exceeding 280 mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
In the perspective of a Texas group research group whose focus is "education, and technology transfer initiatives to improve the mobility of people and goods in urban and rural communities of megaregions," there is no single, preponderant, widely agreed upon statutory/regulatory definition of a megaregion. Historically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
in the south and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, which was named the Northeast megalopolis, which became known as the "Northeast megaregion" in the work of America 2050 . (The RPA is an independent, New York-based, non-profit planning organization.) A reputable, broader American description from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
megaregions they have identified. Megaregions are spoken of as becoming the new competitive units in the global economy, characterized by the increasing movement of goods, people and capital among their metropolitan regions. "The New Megas," asserts Richard Florida, "are the real economic organizing units of the world,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
"Despite these scholarly perspectives, statutory and regulatory documents have not arrived at a single definition, which has led to "variations on what should be prioritized within megaregions across jurisdictions". The megaregion concept provides cities and metropolitan regions a context within which to cooperate acro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
In cont, megaregions that cross international borders (such as the Southern California, Gulf Coast, and Arizona Sun Corridor megaregions), while having a shared history and culture, are often limited in power. Overall, planning in cross-jurisdictional megaregions can be susceptible to varying levels of regulations. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The 11 emerging megaregions identified by the RPA are: Arizona Sun Corridor Megaregion (extends into Mexico). Cascadia Megaregion (Pacific Northwest; shared with Canada). The RPA definition of this region does not include the Boise metropolitan area in Idaho, though it is included in some definitions of the Pacific Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Florida Megaregion. The megaregion does not cover the entire state, excluding the Panhandle and several mostly rural counties to its east. The Pensacola–Navarre and Fort Walton Beach areas in the far west of the Panhandle are instead included in the Gulf Coast Megaregion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Front Range Megaregion. The northern end of this megaregion starts in the Colorado–Wyoming area typically called the Front Range Urban Corridor, then extends south following the Interstate 25 corridor along the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains to the range's southernmost extent in New Mexico, incorporating the Santa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Great Lakes Megaregion. This megalopolis extends into Canada, whose geographers, by including Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, take a more inclusive approach than the American RPA when defining the Canadian section of the region. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The RPA definition of the American portion of the region includes the geographically detached metropolitan areas of Minneapolis–St. Paul, St. Louis, and Kansas City. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Gulf Coast Megaregion. The RPA definition of this region includes the entirety of two metropolitan areas that straddle the Mexico–United States border, specifically Matamoros–Brownsville and Reynosa–McAllen. Northeast Megaregion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The United States' original "megalopolis" -- sometimes called the "Boston-Washington corridor" -- stretches from Boston, Massachusetts (in the northeast extremity), through New York City, to Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington, D.C. (in the southern extremity). The RPA definition also includes the farther-south ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Northern California Megaregion. The RPA definition includes the Nevada portion of Lake Tahoe, as well as the entire Truckee Meadows including Reno. Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM) is a neologism created by the Regional Plan Association for an area of the Southeastern United States that includes the Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, Research Triangle (Raleigh–Durham), and Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point metropolitan areas. Southern Cali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The Regional Plan Association methodology for identifying the emerging megaregions included assigning each county a point for each of the following: It was part of a core-based statistical area; Its population density exceeded 200 people per square mile as of the 2000 census; The projected population growth rate was ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
This methodology was much more successful at identifying fast-growing regions with existing metropolitan centers than more sparsely populated, slower growing regions. Nor does it include a distinct marker for connectedness between cities. The RPA method omits the eastern part of the Windsor-Quebec City urban corridor i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Notes: Houston appears twice (as part of Gulf Coast and Texas Triangle). The populations given for megalopolises that extend into Canada and Mexico (Arizona Sun Corridor, Cascadia, Great Lakes, and Southern California) include their non-U.S. residents. Disconnected metropolitan areas (as defined by the RPA) are flagged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Thirteen of the top 100 American primary census statistical areas are not included in any of the 11 emerging mega-regions. However, the Lexington-based CSA in Kentucky is identified by the RPA as being part of an "area of influence" of the Great Lakes megalopolis, while the Albany and Syracuse-based CSAs in Upstate New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Though identification of the megaregions has gone through several iterations, the above identified are based on a set of criteria developed by Regional Plan Association, through its America 2050 initiative - a joint venture with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Two historic publications helped lay the foundation f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The most recent and only previous attempt to plan at this scale happened more than 70 years ago, with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Political issues stymied further efforts at river basin planning and development.In 1961's Megalopolis, Gottman describes the Northeastern seaboard of the United States - or Megapologis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
This kind of crowding and its significance cannot be described by simple measurements. Its various aspects will be shown on a number of maps, and if these could all be superimposed on one base map there would be demarcated an area in which so many kinds of crowding coincide in general (though not always in all the deta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Crowding of population, which may first be expressed in terms of densities per square mile, will, of course, be a major characteristic to survey. As this study aims at understanding the meaning of population density, we shall have to know the foundation that supports such crowding over such a very vast area. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
What do these people do? What is their average income and their standard of living? What is the distribution pattern of wealth and of certain more highly paid occupations? | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
For example, the outstanding concentration of population in the City of New York and its immediate suburbs (a mass of more than ten million people by any count) cannot be separated from the enormous concentration in the same city of banking, insurance, wholesale, entertainment, and transportation activities. These vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
In 2016, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded The University of Texas at Austin a five-year grant to lead a consortium under the University Transportation Centers (UTC) program, called Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2). The center aims to advance research, education, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The RPA report identifies megaregions that are shared between the US and Canada, and is presumably at least tangentially concerned with pan-North American issues. However, being based on largely American research, it does not clearly define the geographic extent of megaregions where they extend into Canada, a responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
Lawrence Valley, despite the fact that Canadian geographers usually include them as part of one larger Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. The close relationship between large linked metropolitan regions and a nation's ability to compete in the global economy is recognized in Europe and Asia. Each has aggressively pursued st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The European Spatial Development Perspective, a set of policies and strategies adopted by the European Union in 1999, is working to integrate the economies of the member regions, reduce economic disparities, and increase economic competitiveness (Faludi 2002; Deas and Lord 2006). In East Asia, comprehensive strategic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapolitan_area |
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) was created in 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines. It is a tax-exempt, government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. On August 4, 1969, Republic Act 6111 or the Phil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
In 2010, it claimed to have achieved "universal" coverage at 86% of the population, although the 2008 National Demographic Health Survey showed that only 38 percent of respondents were aware of at least one household member being enrolled in PhilHealth. Nevertheless, this social insurance program provides a means for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The Philippine Medical Care Program began in 1971 following the Philippine Medical Care Act of 1969. It mandated creation of the Philippine Medical Care Commission (PMCC). In 1990, bills were passed that led to significant improvement of public health care insurance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
House Bill 14225 and Senate Bill 01738 became Republic Act 7875, known as "The National Health Insurance Act of 1995". Approved by President Fidel Ramos on February 14, 1995, this become the basis of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. On its 16th anniversary, the song "PhilHealth: Tapat na Serbisyo, Tapat na ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth has six major membership categories covering nearly the entire population. Those who count under the (1) "Formal" sector are workers employed by public and private companies and other institutions. (2) "Indigents" (also called "PhilHealth Ng Masa") are subsidized by national government through the National H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
(4) "Lifetime" (non-paying) members are retirees and pensioners which have already paid premiums for 120 months of membership. (5) "Senior Citizen" (under RA 10645) allows all Filipino citizens 60 years old and above are eligible to have free PhilHealth coverage. (6) The "Informal Economy" is composed of Informal Secto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Although treated separately, the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) program or Migrant Workers are a part of the Informal Economy. Migrant Workers are sub-categorized; whether if they are land-based or sea-based (for seafarers). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Since 1996, the benefits package and delivery system have improved. PhilHealth now has an Outpatient and Diagnostic Package limited to indigent beneficiaries. This addition creates nearly comprehensive coverage for indigents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
In 2011, 23 Case Rates was introduced and in 2013, All Case Rates was fully implemented. All other beneficiaries have access to nearly all comprehensive services, excluding some outpatient care. PhilHealth has an accreditation program for private hospitals.Some key reform indicators to date include: Estimated coverage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The law requires PhilHealth to reimburse providers and/or members within 60 days. A recent move as of December 1, 2009, implemented a "simplified reimbursement scheme" wherein 95% of the amount of the claim is reimbursed after a rapid assessment of member and provider eligibility and the remaining 25% follows after det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
All premiums are pooled nationally and in effect, there is cross-subsidization across districts. The national government payment is dependent on the availability of funds. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The benefits package is essentially the same for each membership category, PhilHealth deduction will depend upon the final diagnosis. The exception is for indigents and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have additional outpatient primary care benefits (with the providers paid by capitation) however these benefits ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth and beneficiaries have access to a comprehensive package of services, including inpatient care, catastrophic coverage, ambulatory surgeries, deliveries, and outpatient treatment for malaria and tuberculosis. Those identified as indigent and OFW are also entitled to outpatient primary care benefits (PCB1) or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Catastrophic conditions, ambulatory surgeries including ambulatory dialysis, deliveries and outpatient malaria and TB-DOTS care. Outpatient benefits include day surgeries, radiotherapy, dialysis, outpatient blood transfusion, TB-DOTS, malaria treatment, HIV/AIDS treatment, animal bite treatment, cataract operations and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Annual or lifetime coverage limits exist. These limits are expressed in terms of volumes of services (e.g., days) rather than a peso coverage limit. For example, principal member are eligible for 45 days of inpatient admission and also outpatient, and another 45 days to share among its qualified dependents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Each day of ambulatory surgery counts as a day of admission. Providers are allowed to charge the patient the difference between the total cost of care and what PhilHealth pays (i.e., balance billing). Indigent and sponsored members, lifetime members, senior citizen members and household members are entitled to avail th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
NBB are not applicable under private rooms and private hospitals so members have to pay the excess or balance after the case rate amount has been deducted. Atty. Thorrsson Montes Keith is considered as "HERO" by the OFWs when he sacrificed his personal security for their protection. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The service delivery system includes both public and private centers; on average, 61% of the network's providers are private and 39% are public. In order to achieve accreditation, all in-network hospitals and day-surgery centers must be licensed by the Department of Health. The network includes hospitals, day surgery c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The scheme is entirely administered by PhilHealth, a government corporation attached to the Department of Health. PhilHealth collects premiums, accredits providers, sets the benefits packages and provider payment mechanisms, processes claims, and reimburses providers for their services. PhilHealth is responsible for ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth has a governing board of 13 individuals, chaired by the Secretary of Health, with the President and CEO of PhilHealth as vice-chair. While the law, RA 7875, that created the National Health Insurance Program provides that the President and CEO has a fixed term of 6 years, with the passage Republic Act 10149 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Provider payment methods differ based on the illness or diagnosis. Case Rates are used for inpatient care, most day surgeries, and ambulatory procedures, TB-DOTS treatment, malaria care, deliveries, surgical contraception, and cataract surgeries, while primary care benefits providers are reimbursed based on a capitatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth currently leverages internally developed quality standards. A new set of standards called the "PhilHealth Benchbook" was implemented starting January 1, 2010. The Benchbook was developed by PhilHealth with the assistance of various international health partners and several rounds of consultations with health... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
The new quality standards focus on patient rights, organizational ethics, patient care, leadership and management, human resource management, information management, safe practice and environment and mechanisms of improving performance. As of 2011, hospital accreditation is valid for up to 3 years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth accreditation staff physically check and verify compliance. PhilHealth has peer review committees mostly composed of health care providers who review specific cases. PhilHealth planned to implement quality-based purchasing but had not executed on this plan as of December 2009. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth has been developing incentives focused on payment to health care professionals. Doctors are usually independent practitioners who 'practice' in hospitals. Salaried government physicians are allowed to also engage in private practice. Efforts to implement case payments essentially focus on bundling the paymen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Among PhilHealth's work in incentive-based payments is a scheme that has been piloted in 30 local government hospitals since 2002 but has not spread. The scheme is called the Quality Improvement Demonstration Study (QIDS). It utilizes clinical vignettes to measure quality of care. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
If a hospital meets a set quality of care index score, physician payments are increased. Clinical vignettes focus on the illnesses of children less than six years of age. Another incentive scheme is increased payment for health professionals practicing in areas where there is a lack of doctors. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Claims processing and availability in accredited hospitals has been improved. Hospitals have installed the ICHP Portal System. It is established to provide a link between accredited institutional health care providers and Philhealth through online connections that shall ensure verification of eligibility information. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Members don't need to fill out forms if they have updated premium contributions and PhilHealth records, but they may have to present their PhilHealth IDs. Members also don't need to submit their member data records. Claims are submitted to 17 regional claims processing centers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
These centers initially review claims for eligibility. Review is input manually with data encoded into the claims processing information system. Once the claim is approved for payment, checks are prepared for the signature of regional heads. Electronic reimbursements are planned but has yet to be implemented. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth conducts its own Monitoring and Evaluation, though the law mandates that University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health engages in monitoring of the scheme. Evaluations on the PhilHealth program are ongoing. The Department of Health (to which PhilHealth is an attached agency) monitors and analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
In 2013, fraudulent claims Juan Miguel of Regional 1 started fire with against the state-health insurer were estimated at 4 billion pesos. However, the state failed to prosecute erring doctors, private and public hospitals, and public officials. AFP Medical Center, St. Luke's Hospital, Philippine Orthopedic Hospital, U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
In Iloilo, eye-doctor claims for 2,071 operations in 2006 amounting to PHP16 million in professional fees were also investigated. A hospital in Davao City also noticed that a janitor, not a PhilHealth member, had been lying in bed to claim benefits as a PhilHealth-accredited patient. Also in 2006, PhilHealth revoked th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
2018, A lawmaker was shocked to find out that Philhealth interim president Celestina Dela Serna spent one year living at a hotel worth P3,800 per night instead of renting a condominium unit or apartment in Metro Manila. Negros Oriental Rep. Arnulfo Teves said he and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez had the chance to tal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
"She admitted to staying in the hotel for one year or more… More or less one year sa hotel siya nakatira charged to Philhealth and she said she thought it was okay, that's why she did it," he said. Teves said Dela Serna told him and Alvarez that she stayed at Legend Villas, where rooms are worth at least P3,800 a night... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
President Rodrigo Duterte then suspends the collections, and the agency is looking at a longer payment period following backlash.On July 24, 2020, anti-fraud legal officer Thorrsson Montes Keith resigned due to rampant corruption and anomalies within the agency. His salary and hazard pay have been delayed from the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth has yet to receive the resignation letter and a statement in response. The Senate is looking to investigate the allegation.On August 25, 2021, Senator Richard Gordon presented the Senate blue ribbon committee report containing the findings of its 2019 investigation into the alleged fraud and corruption withi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Morales said that he will submit his resignation letter to the Malacanang Palace. PhilHealth SVP for Legal Sector Rodolfo del Rosario Jr. also resigned. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
According to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the increase in contributions would be retroactive to January. This means that, in addition to the increased payments that will be collected from an employee's wage beginning next month, PhilHealth members will have to pay an extra 1% premium from J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
PhilHealth said in its Advisory No. 2022-0010 that members and employers who paid their contributions at 3% in the months before the premium rate hike starting next month "are advised to generate the corresponding Statement of Premium Account for the paid periods so they can settle the 1 percent differential payments/r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Health_Insurance_Corporation |
Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education |
The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society: how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness but remain part of a corrupting collectivity. It has a famous opening sentence: "Everything is good as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education |
The text is divided into five books: the first three are dedicated to the child Emile, the fourth to an exploration of the adolescent, and the fifth to outlining the education of his female counterpart Sophie, as well as to Emile's domestic and civic life. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education |
In Book I, Rousseau discusses not only his fundamental philosophy but also begins to outline how one would have to raise a child to conform with that philosophy. He begins with the early physical and emotional development of the infant and the child. Emile attempts to "find a way of resolving the contradictions between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education |
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