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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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    The role of key actors in the promotion of local community development: The case of KALAHI-CIDSS projects in Janiuay, Iloilo
    Bartolome, Carie Fel M.; Sotrina, Emalyn S. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2008-03)
    This research is centred on the research problem - what are the roles of the key actors in the promotion of local community development in the case of the Kapit-bisig Laban Sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-Cidss) projects in the municipality of Janiuay. Iloilo. Firstly, there is a need to explain local community development in the Kalahi-Cidss projects in Janiuay. Iloilo. Next, the paper proceeds to describe the resources that are being employed in Kalahi-Cidss in Janiuay in order to meet its goals. Then, the paper directs on the description of the roles of the key actors in the Kalahi-Cidss projects in Janiuay, Iloilo. The last objective of this paper is to describe the developmental outcomes brought by the projects to the people of Janiuay. The research problem and objectives of the paper were addressed through desk research, secondary material review, project site inspection, informal interviews with the barangay residents, and key informant interview with the Kalahi-Area Coordinator in Janiuay. The method of triangulation was used to avail more complete and more reliable data with less validity threats. It was found out that the Kalahi-Cidss is the flagship program of the Philippine government in addressing poverty in the country. Its foundation lies on the understanding that when people are empowered, they have the capability to spare themselves from poverty. Resources being employed in order to meet the goals of the project were categorized into proximate and non-proximate interventions. Three barangays in Janiuay were studied. The roles of the key actors in each barangay were described in the paper. The roles of the key actors in the three barangays were compared with each other and assessed in relation to the success of the Kalahi-Cidss projects in each respective community. Key actors involved in the projects were the barangay officials and the local community. The project success and developmental outcomes depended largely on how these two actors collaborated with each other. However, most essential in the actual process was how the former performed their task as leaders of the community. Barangay officials are the initiators of local community development through the Kalahi-Cidss.
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    Batog kag Aya-ay: The politics of ecological consciousness of the presidents of Barangay Pantalan President Roxas, Capiz
    Bañez, Ma. Arve (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 1992-03-01)
    This study examines the folk consciousness on the environment of the residents of Barangay Pantalan, President Roxas, Capiz. A combination of the etic and emic approaches in social sciences was used to make sense out of the informations gathered from the field. This study also identifies Man as Master of Nature, Man and Nature in Antagonism, Man in Harmony with Nature, and Nature as Sacred as the different relationships between human being and Nature. These different relationships between human being and Nature are contained- in the two broad opposing rationalities, namely, Speciesism and Environmentalism. An ethnocartography of Barangay Pantalan is constituted in this study using the folk sense of direction and orientation. In addition, the study examines the folk beliefs and practices built around man-made structure, sea, and the flora and the fauna. This study concludes with a discussion of the politics of environmentalism. Human being does not dominate Nature nor Nature dominates human being in this politics of environmentalism. The same politics embodies ethical dimensions which check the drift toward the destruction of the environment.
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    Court-annexed mediation: Fair and speedy administration of justice in the Philippines
    Baes, Marty V. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2010-04)
    The Philippine Judicial System experiences a problem characterized by clogged court dockets. Courts are having a hard time in resolving the cases brought before them. Court-annexed mediation (CAM) was adopted to supplement the traditional due process (DPL) method of resolving cases. To understand how CAM speeds up the administration of justice, the CAM and DPL method was compared to determine the differences in the length of time and the amount of resources spent for case resolution. Interviews, archival research, and participant observations were conducted. The results revealed that CAM resolve cases in a short period of time involving lesser amount of resources spent compared to the DPL method. Though CAM proves to be a speedy and expedient method of case resolution, it is not yet able to solve the problem of clogged court dockets for the reason that it is still a new method of resolving cases.
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    Adaptive capacity of the local government to the impacts of climate change: Comparison between Guimbal and Tigbauan
    Andal, Jane Desiree F. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2011)
    The paper examined the factors affecting the adaptive capacity of the local government in terms of responsiveness and preparedness to deal with the impacts of climate change. This is focused on three factors namely, organizational learning, collaboration and socio-economic status. The study is conducted by comparing the municipalities of Guimbal and Tigbauan in terms of their organizational learning, collaboration and socio-economic status as well as their responsiveness and preparedness in dealing with typhoons, flooding, and drought as the major impacts considered in this study. The results show that organizational learning enhances the preparedness of the municipality to deal with the impacts while collaboration and socio-economic status enhance both responsiveness and preparedness to deal with the impacts of climate change.