This article discusses a case study of the Philippines' COVID-19 after action review (AAR). AARs are tools for health system learning and can lead to improvements in emergency preparedness and response. The Philippines conducted a COVID-19 AAR using the World Hea...
Uganda and the Philippines had two of the longest school shutdowns due to COVID-19 and since many MDA programs are delivered to children in schools, this creates a delay in the treatment and elimination of diseases [108]. In Uganda schools only reopened in January of 2022 after two years...
Focusing on two key claimants in the SCS, our study has the following research question: How effective was Chinese COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy in the Philippines and Vietnam from a soft power perspective? Through a qualitative multiple case study research design, we determined the effectiveness of...
Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines, 4030, Los Banos, Philippines Melvin A. Castrosanto Department of Science and Engineering, Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, Hebersham, NSW, Australia Athanasios Alexiou AFNP Med, Vienna, Austria Athanasios Alexiou Pre-Clinical Research ...
Using household-level data in the Philippines, this paper employed an extended version of the difference-in-differences (DID) method to quantify the separate impacts of COVID-19 cases and lockdown measures on household expenditure. Results show that while the pandemic significantly reduced total ...
The conflict-affected areas considered include Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria, the Philippines, Yemen, and other zones. The central finding of the article is that the existing studies on COVID-19 and peace in conflict-affected areas ...
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is a global health crisis that has affected educational systems worldwide. North Eastern Mindanao State University (NEMSU), a typical countryside academic institution in the Southern Philippines, did not escape this dilemma. The advent of remote learning to contin...
the global population and account for over 80% of the estimated global excess deaths for the January 2020 to December 2021 period. These countries are (in alphabetical order) Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, ...
Early in the pandemic, a thoughtful analysis was published providing a detailed case study of the Roman Catholic Church’s efforts at externalizing its social teaching to those at risk for and suffering from COVID-19 in the Philippines [29]. The authors asked, “Where is the Church?”, and...
COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises under the Lockdown: Evidence from a Rapid Survey in the Philippines. ADB Econ. Work. Pap. Ser. 2021, 1216, 1–39. [Google Scholar] Balla-Elliott, D.; Cullen, Z.B.; Glaeser, E.L.; Stanton, C.T. Business Re-Opening ...