The survey covered public and private academic institutions, public and private medical centers, government line agencies, and non-government organizations. This was done to provide future directions in planning research and capability development programs for the next decade. The study revealed that while a core of trained human resources is available, this is inadequate to speed up the generation of health information and technologies. There are only few trained researchers in the basic medical and allied sciences. With a few exceptions, data collection, processing storage and retrieval in libraries are manually done.
Internet access is mainly through dial-up connection.
There is a need to update library facilities to enhance access to information vital to health research. Most of the health research resources are clustered in Metro Manila. Private organizations comprise almost 60 percent of the agencies that reported research and development activities. About 47 percent of the organizations are engaged in health research and private academic institutions. Funds for health research was increased from P69.42 million in 1990 to P273.32 million in 1995.