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    Impacts of DOH-led policy shifts on health workers and Iloilo public hospitals' management at the time of COVID-19
    Bauso, Christopher Mark C.; Dayata, Audrey Eurielle G.; Niñeza, Tristan L.; Zaldarriaga, Trisha I. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2023-07)
    This study explored the actual policy shifts in public hospitals in Iloilo Province during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from January to June 2020. The study looked into how the implementation of the DOH-crafted policies impacted healthcare delivery, the health workforce, and response to the care-seeking behavior of the patients. Key informant interviews (KII) and semi-structured interviews were employed among the hospital management and the frontline workers of Rep. Pedro G. Trono Memorial Hospital and DOH-retained Western Visayas Sanitarium and General Hospital to gather data for the study. The KJI were participated in by the hospital chiefs and the IPC heads. Meanwhile, doctors, nurses, medical technologists, admitting clerks, and non-medical health workers were respondents of semi-structured interviews to determine the impacts of the new policies. Conforming to the available literature on pandemic response, this study revealed that optimal conditions were not readily achieved in the public hospitals under this study, mainly due to lack of resources to materialize the DOH-mandated changes. The policies were not fit to the current structure and service capacity of the hospitals and health workers carried the burden of ensuring adequate delivery of care. We discovered that health workers were exhaustively working despite the lack of government support in terms of benefits, compensation, and hazard pays. Furthermore, health workers encountered difficulties in rendering immediate care to patients who initially avoided hospital care resulting in an increased number of recorded ER deaths. Overall, we observed that the hospitals were able to keep up with the policy shifts through exploring feasible alternatives. However, DOH-retained institutions garner more favorable outcomes than public district hospitals since resources were directly transferred to them from the DOH Regional Office. Crafting context-specific policies addressing public health crises is recommended following the results of this study.
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    Living conditions of students and their families in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic: Case of students from University of Antique
    Alagos, Krizyl Anne J.; Castillo, Justine Mae T. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2022-07)
    The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease has caused serious and long-term implications for people’s health, quality of life, and well-being. Apart from the hostility of the pandemic to the worldwide economy, the crisis has also made a significant impact on the education system, specifically on the students. The disturbance has shifted from traditional learning of students to a virtual class experience through online set up or remote learning. This study assesses the living conditions of randomly selected students of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Antique and their families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary data were gathered through the use of an online survey on Google Forms, wherein respondents were selected using stratified random sampling. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired T- test. The findings of the study revealed that students experienced worsened conditions due to the pandemic. The results further showed that the students and their families were negatively affected by the pandemic after six months of the pandemic through several variables such as employment status, job satisfaction, number of people working in the household, household income, household expenses, performance as a student and performance as a son/daughter. The gradually improving situation of the UA students and their families after two years of the pandemic showed that they are on their way to recovery. Yet, the results also showed that they are yet to fully recover. The paper recommends interventions, policy workshops, and evidence-based programs to help students and their families recover from the effects of the pandemic and become better prepared for any similar future crises