Public Health Laws

Magna Carta of Public Health Workers RA 7305

• To promote and improve the social economic well being

• Develop their skills and capabilities

• encourage those who have proper qualifications

Philippine Clean Air Act RA 8749

Comprehensive air quality management policy and program which aims to achieve and maintain healthy air for all Filipinos

Generics Act of 1988 RA 6675

An act to promote, require, and ensure the production of an adequate supply, distribution, use, and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their generic name

Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008

An act providing for cheaper and quality medicines, amending for the purpose of RA 8293——

Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002

• Otherwise known as the DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 1972

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

Serves as the implementing arm of the board and shall be responsible for the efficient and effective law enforcement of all provisions on any dangerous drugs

• Heroin

• Cocaine

• Barbiturates

• Street Methadone

• Alcohol

• Ketamine

• Benzodiazepine

• Amphetamine

• Tobacco

• Brupenorphine

Top 10 Dangerous Drugs

Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act RA11332

• Protecting the people from public health threats through the efficient and effective disease surveillance of notifiable diseases including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

• The law aims to protect people from public health threats

Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern

RA 11332 Section 5

RA 11332

Section 5

• Regularly Update and issue a list of nationally notifiable diseases

• Selection and deletion of diseases and health events of public health concern

RA 9994

• To recognize the rights of the senior citizens to take their proper place in society and make it a concern of the family

Art. 3 Rights of the Child

PD 603

• Every child has the right to education

• Has the right to be a free individual

Art. 4 Responsibilities of the child

PD 603

• Exert his utmost to develop his potentialities for service

• Become asset to himself and to the society

Art. 12 Education

PD 603

• the schools and other entities engaged in non-formal education shall assist the parents in providing the best education for the child

Art. 71 Admission to Schools

PD 603

• The state shall see to it that no child is refused admission in public schools. All parents are required to enroll their children in schools to complete at least an elementary education

Art. 72 Assistance

PD 603

• To implement effectively the compulsory education policy, all necessary ASSISTANCE possible shall be given to parents

Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 RA 8423

an act to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative care in the Philippines for providing a traditional and alternative care

• Medicinal plants

Acupuncture

form of energy medicine where long thin needles are inserted to specific parts of the body

• musculoskeletal dysfunction

Ventosa Cupping Massage

done by placing inverted glasses that have flames from burning cotton

• muscle or joint pain

Reflexology

same with acupuncture

• soles of the feet

Acupressure

does not use needles unlike acupuncture but applies pressure

• Akapulko

• Ampalaya

• Bawang

• Bayabas

• Lagundi

• Niyog-niyogan

• Sambong

• Tsaang gubat

• Pansit-pansitan

• Yerba Buena

10 herbal medicines in ph 

• approved by DOH

Mental Health Law RA 11036

an act establishing a national mental health policy for the purpose of enhancing the delivery of integrated mental health services, promoting and protecting the rights of the persons utilizing psychiatric, neurologic, and psychosocial health srvices

Mental Health Legislation

Legal framework to address critical mental health issues encompassing promotion, access to care, treatment, rehab, and aftercare 

Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998

• Public awareness

• Human rights and civil liberties

• safety and universal precautions

  • HIV and AIDS

Philippine HIV and AIDS policy act RA 11166

an act strengthening the Philippine comprehensive policy on HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support

Philippine National Aids Council

PNAC