Abstract:

The study illuminated the caring phenomenon within the provision of health services and the seek of care in Philippine public health. Using a qualitative approach, employing a hermeneutic-phenomenological design, specifically the Husserlian method for phenomenology a Gadamerian hermeneutics, this study was participated by 8 care providers and 8 recipients of care. It utilized generated themes from in-depth interviews which represented the current phenomena of Philippine public health being correlated with historical literatures and events to generate interpretation of what was found to be a colonial identity of care. Furthermore, the tangible manifestation of caring phenomenon in Philippine public health is built within the scaffold of a colonialism, lived and shared by the people through culture influencing and shaping today’s society in its identity as a Filipino and in public health as caring phenomenon occurs.

Keywords: Colonial Identity, Public Health, Caring.

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