the workforce. A major problem with the workforce is the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is currently 11.4 %. The worst part about this is that the majority of the unemployed is young, inexperienced people who were relatively well educated. Since the lack of job opportunities, the educated people find themselves unemployed because everyone is fighting for the higher jobs.Another important aspect that helps dictate the economic growth of a country is health. In the Philippines the struggle against disease has been increasing over the years. Life expectancy rose from 51.2 years in 1960 to 69 years for woman and 63 years for men in 1990. In 1998 the numbers were up to 63.57 for men and 69.38 for woman. Infant mortality dropped from 101 out of 1000 in 1950 to 51.6 in 1989. It has dropped all the way down to 34.56 out of 1000 in 1998. The biggest cause of death in the Philippines has always come from communicable diseases. The main reason for that is the health care facilities is mostly located in only urban areas. A bad part about all of these facilities is that there has always been a lack of personnel capable of running and maintaining these facilities. Another big problem with health in the Philippines is the problem of illicit drugs. In 1983 more than 265 pharmaceutical drugs were sold in the Philippines that were banned in many other countries. By 1988, The department of health helped eliminate 128 of them. By 1998, another 45 had been eliminated. The Filipino's use a dual health care system consisting of modern (Western) and traditional medicine. The modern system is based on disease and medical treatment. The traditional is based on the fact that disease is caused and cured by supernatural force. Two many times than often if the cure was not right their the people will leave the thought of modern medicine and travel to the traditional way of curing people. This is a big reason for the large number of dea...
