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Abstract

Government hospitals in the Philippines are funded by the existing political administration to help alleviate the current health dilemmas of the country. In order to ensure that these hospitals are able to act upon the functions for which they stand for, their absorptive capacities (AC) must be more than adequate. This study aims to determine the trend of the absorptive capacities of Nationally-funded Government hospitals in Cebu for the past five years (2007-2011) and based on these findings, create a predictive forecast of what their absorptive capacities will be on the next five years (2012-2016). This research study utilized Quantitative Non-experimental Descriptive-Normative design. This study was conducted at various nationallyfunded government owned hospitals in Cebu. A survey was done to gather the supply and demand parameters that affect the absorptive capacities of these hospitals for the past five years. The supply parameter encompassed the budgetary allocation provided by the government, through the Department of Budget and Management for the operations of these hospitals. On the other hand, the demand parameter covers the annual hospital admissions of poor Filipino people. The absorptive capacity was derived by obtaining the quotient of the supply parameter and the product of the demand parameter and national health budget for that specific year (absorptive capacity index).The results showed that the ACs of all hospitals were inadequate. In addition, the trend of both absorptive capacities showed a declining pattern implicating that these hospitals were not able to fully absorb the budgetary appropriations provided for them and that this may have greatly hampered their ability to render quality health services to the poor. Consequently, the predictive forecast of their ACs for the succeeding five years showed a declining trend of the ACs by years 2012-2016.

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