The main presentation was made by Ms. Jessamyn Encarnacion, Director, Social Statistics Office, National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). I don't know if those materials will be posted online in their website, but here are the relevant numbers.
Gross domestic products (GDP) 2011 = P9,735,521 billion
(current prices)
THE/GDP ratio = 4.43 percent
I checked the WHO website for the Philippines, http://www.who.int/countries/phl/en/
It's data of THE/GDP ratio for 2011 = 4.1 percent.
Another understatement and wrong data by the WHO. I think they
are getting wrong data for the denominator, the GDP.
Please recall that until March this year, WHO data said
that the Philippines' Health/GDP ratio 2010 = 3.6 percent only. But I made a simple computation for 2010:
THE = P379.32 billion.
GDP= P9,003.48 billion
Health/GDP ratio = 4.2 percent.
I discussed it here, Health
Spending 6: Health/GDP Ratio 2010,
WHO was wrong with its computation, yet it did not
double check its figures. The DOH, WB, ADB, UN, NGOs, etc have been using that
wrong WHO ratio.
It's good that they have replaced that old and wrong 2010
data with 2011 data. And still it's wrong.
It should 4.4 percent,not 4.1 percent.
Some people might be wondering what the heck is a 0.3 percent of
GDP difference, it's "small anyway". Wrong, it's not a small amount.
At P9.375 trillion GDP size, just 0.1 percent of it means
P93.75 billion, or more than double the total DOH budget of P42.08 billion in
2012.
So a 0.3 percent understatement of health spending =
P281.22 billion of understatement.
That is a big amount, it's not small.
To continue the NSCB presentation, here are their additional numbers. The per capita health expenditures.
The never-ending MDG targets saga.
