Newsletter: Ateneo study highlights workforce hurdles to Universal Health Care in the Philippines

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Despite being a top exporter of healthcare professionals, the Philippines faces a chronic shortage of nurses and physicians. Also, many health graduates in the country are unprepared for real-world public health work. Government primary care facilities and hospitals struggle to hire sufficient staff due to budget and policy barriers, while private hospitals struggle to keep their staff due to fiscal constraints.

These findings, published recently in the international journal Human Resources for Health by Ateneo de Manila University researchers, are major hurdles to the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the country.

Newsletter: PLDT, Smart rally around workforce digital health and wellness

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Mental health advocate and Sangguniang Panlalawigan Board Member of La Union Joy Ortega and Environmental conservationist and Lotus Valley Founder Toby Tamayo discuss their passions with purpose on their advocacies in the first episode of the conversations series on mental wellness.

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart recently launched an employee engagement initiative entitled, “Better Today Conversations: Mind Your Health”. Through storytelling, the companies invited advocates to share their stories anchored on narratives of Passion & Purpose, Strength & Resilience, Community & Empathy, and Hope. The initiative underscores the importance of taking care of one’s mental and emotional wellbeing in order to become better today. 

 

HelperChoice becomes the first online platform accredited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

10/21/2020 10:51:52 PM

Author's Note: HelperChoice has announced recently that they became the first online platform being accredited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, one of the government agencies that deal with the employment process of the Filipino workers outside the country.  With the accreditation, any Filipino who has been planning to work outside the Philippine shores will have to relief from a looming problem of illegal placement fees usually collected by the erring recruitment agencies.

All that and more in the press release below.

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Kaspersky releases new edition of Endpoint Security intended for remote workforce protection

04/22/2020 02:34:28 PM

Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has unveiled its newest edition of Endpoint Security, aiming to protect remote workforces and providing businesses more visibility over shadow IT.