Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 08:28 PM, Apr 10, 2023

April 10, 2023

Dear Khadija Dolorical,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Mar 04, 2023 02:49:12 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for The number of asthma and pneumonia cases in the Philippines.

Your FOI request is approved. 

Our apologies for the delayed response.

In reference to your data request, we regret to inform you that we do not have specific data on this.

Our data related to your request is limited to the following:

a) Vital Statistics Reports under registered deaths by causes:
https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics 
https://psa.gov.ph/content/vital-statistics-report-vsr 
https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics/table

2022 Causes of Deaths in the Philippines (Preliminary as of 31 October 2022): https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics/id/168699

Table 1.  Number of Registered Deaths, Percent Shares, and Ranks by Cause of Death (Top 50), Philippines: January to September, 2021(p) and 2022(p) (Preliminary as of 31 October 2022): https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/pressrelease/Statistical%20Tables_4.xlsx

Registered Deaths in the Philippines, 2021: 
https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics/id/176444

Table 10. Number of Registered Deaths by Sex and Cause of Death and by Age Group, Philippines: 2021: https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/specialrelease/Statistical%20tables_2021%20Deaths_1.xlsx

You may also check our published data on our OpenSTAT portal:

Deaths: Number of Registered Deaths by Usual Residence and Place of Occurrence and Attendance at Death, (Region, Province and City/Municipality) Philippines: 2016: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__1A__VS__DE/3041A1BVDA3.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=e3e73c17-6bd0-4308-9322-670ebc6b6378

Number of Registered Deaths by Causes of Death and Sex, Philippines: 2016: https://openstat.psa.gov.ph/PXWeb/pxweb/en/DB/DB__1A__VS__DE/3051A1BVDA2.px/?rxid=b9fbf734-a3d7-416a-a373-14845bb447fa

b) Compendium of Philippine Environment Statistics Component 5: Human Settlements and Environmental Health: https://psa.gov.ph/environment/peenra/releases/165164

Table 5.6.2 Airborne Diseases Cases and Deaths (Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection _ Pneumonia 2010-2019): https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/ird/specialrelease/Table%205.6.2%20Airborne%20Diseases%20Cases%20and%20Deaths%20%28Acute%20Lower%20Respiratory%20Tract%20Infection%20_%20Pneumonia%202010-2019%29_0.xlsx

For more information of this data, you may try to coordinate with the Department of Health:
https://doh.gov.ph/
https://doh.gov.ph/publications

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

Noel G. Perez
(Information Technology Officer III)
Officer-in-Charge
Information Technology and Dissemination Service