Contents:
Philippine poverty assessment -- Filipino report card on pro-poor services -- Capitation payment for in-patient benefits of indigent members of NHIP -- Negros Oriental's experience in hospital income retention and utilization -- Local health accounts -- Establishing indices of performance for Department of Health tertiary government hospitals -- Training needs assessment of sanitation officers for capacity building in integrated health and environment in Local Government Units -- Social franchising in the Philippines: an early assessment of an on-going experience in the pharmaceutical sector -- Family health care model in the implementation of mass treatment of diethylcarbamazine cirrate and albendazole for the control and elimination of filariasis in the Philippines -- Establishment of sensitive vector indicator for dengue surveillance -- Study of shabu use among high risk groups -- Monitoring of the health situation in the Philippines: Social Weather Survey 1989-2002 -- Policy notes on poor's access to affordable drugs -- Making PhilHealth policies more pro-poor -- Philippine country study on meeting the Millennium Development Goals -- Philippine national health accounts.