EO No. 489
Inter-Agency Committee on Environmental Health (IACEH)
Healthy settings for all Filipinos
What is the vision of Inter-Agency Committee on Environmental Health (IACEH)?
Provide leadership in ensuring healthy settings
What is the mission of Inter-Agency Committee on Environmental Health (IACEH)?
Reduction of environmental and occupation related diseases, disabilities and deaths through health promotion and mitigation of hazards and risks in the environment and workplaces
What is the goal of Inter-Agency Committee on Environmental Health (IACEH)?
Solid waste, Water, Air, Toxic and hazardous waste, Occupational health, Food safety, and Sanitation
What are the 7 components of environmental health assigned to the members of IACEH?
EHR or Environmental Health Records
Maintenance of ________ is one of the responsibilities given to a city, municipality, and provincial health nurses
Field Health Service Information System (FHIS)
It is the current data management used by the DOH
Midwife
Who is the person in charge of maintaining a monthly record of the environmental health programs?
Households with access to improved or safe water supply
This refers to those covered by or have access to any of the three levels of safe water resources that conforms to the national standards for drinking water.
Level 1
Protected well or a developed spring with an outlet but without a distribution system
Level 2
A system composed of a source, a reservoir, a piped distribution network and communal faucets
Level 3
A system with a source, a reservoir piped distribution network and household taps; Requires minimal treatment or disinfection
Level 1
This level has 15 to 25 households.
Level 2
This level has an average of 100 households
Level 3
This level has more than 100 households
Households with Sanitary Toilets
This refers to households with their own flush toilets connected to septic tanks and/or sewerage systems or any other approved treatment system, sanitary pit latrine, or ventilated improved pit latrine.
Households with complete basic sanitation facilities
This refers to those that satisfy the presence of the following basic sanitation elements, namely: Access to safe water, Availability of a sanitary toilet
Food establishments
This refers to those places where food or drinks are manufactured, processed, stored, sold, or served, including those that are located in vessels.
Sanitary Permit
It is a written certification of the city or municipal health officer or sanitary engineer that the establishment complies with
PD 856
Code of Sanitation in the Philippines
Food Handlers
This refers to a person who handles, stores, prepares, or serves any food item, drink, or ice, or who comes in contact with any eating or cooking utensils or food vending machine.
Health Certificate
A written certification using the prescribed form, issued by the municipal or city health officer to a person after passing the required physical and medical examinations and immunizations.
Microbial Quality
This is one of the general requirements for safe drinking water, wherein it is tested through the parameters of total coliform, fecal coliform, and heterotrophic plate count.
Chemical and Physical Quality
This is one of the general requirements for safe drinking water, wherein it is tested through the parameters of pH, chemical specific levels, color, odor, turbidity, hardness, and total dissolved solids.
Radiological Quality
This is one of the general requirements for safe drinking water, wherein it is tested through the parameters of gross alpha activity, gross beta, and radon.
System Assessment
It is one of the key components of water safety plans, wherein it is used to determine if the drinking water supply chain as a whole can deliver quality water that meets health-based targets.
Operational Monitoring
It is one of the key components of water safety plans, where it is used to identify control measures in a drinking water system that will collectively control identified risks, ensure health-based targets are met, and rapidly detect any deviation from the required performance.
Management Plans
It is one of the key components of water safety plans, where it is used to describe actions to be taken during normal operations or incident conditions.
1 minute
Pediatricians advise boiling water for how many minutes?
Boiling
It is a disinfection process wherein the water should be brought to a "rolling boil" and kept in that state for at least 1 minute.
Chemical Disinfection
It is a disinfection process that can be done using various chemicals
Solar Disinfection (SODIS)
It is a disinfection process that can be done by filling transparent plastic containers 1 to 2 liters in size with clear water and exposing them to direct sunlight for about 5 hours
Aeration
This is used to remove volatile substances, reduce carbon dioxide content, and oxidized dissolved minerals.
Settlement
It is done by allowing water to stand undisturbed in the dark for a day. This process causes death to more than 50% of most harmful bacteria and the settling of suspended solids.
Filtration
It is done by utilizing filters to block particles while allowing water to pass through.
Wide-necked containers with tight fitting lids
This type of container are the best for water storage as they are easy to clean between use.
Ambulant
This type of food vendors shall comply with the requirement of acquiring a health certificate which includes monitoring the presence of intestinal parasites and bacterial infection
Right SOURCE, Right PREPARATION, Right COOKING, and Right STORAGE
Four Right's of Food Safety
Proper Solid Waste Management
This refers to satisfactory methods of storage, collection, and final disposal of solid waste
Rubbish
This refers to waste materials such as bottles, broken glass, porcelain, tin cans, waste paper, discarded textile materials, pieces of metal, and other wrapping materials
Garbage
This refers to leftover vegetable, animal, and fish material from kitchen and food establishments.
Ashes
The leftovers from the burning of wood and coal.
Stable Manure
It is an animal manure collected from stables
Dead Animals
This includes dead dogs, cats, rats, pigs, and chickens that are killed by vehicles on streets and public highways.
Yellow with black band
Pharmaceutical, cytotoxic, or chemical waste
Yellow bag that can be autoclaved
Infectious waste
Orange with radioactive symbol
Radioactive waste
Black or Colorless
Non-hazardous and non-biodegradable waste
Green
Non-hazardous biodegradable waste
Yellow with biohazard symbol
Pathological/Anatomical waste
Clean Air Act of 199 or R.A. No. 8749
This bans the use of incineration for municipal, biomedical, and hazardous wastes, but allows traditional small-scale community burning of waste.
Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990 or R.A. No. 6969
Regulates the importation, use, movement, treatment, and disposal of toxic chemicals, hazardous substances and nuclear waste
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 or R.A. No. 9003
Mandates a community-based approach to ecological solid waste management through composting and recycling
Clean Water Act of 2004 or R.A. No. 9275
Aims to establish wastewater facilities that will clean wastewater before it is released into bodies of water like the river or the sea.
Evaluation
A systemic way of collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer basic questions about a project/program.
Monitoring
A continuous internal process for making sure that the activities under the programme/project are on track (WHO)
Structure Evaluation
Involves looking into the manpower and physical resources of the agency
Process Evaluation
It assesses whether an intervention/model was implemented as planned, whether the target population was reached, and what were the major challenges and successful strategies used
Outcome Evaluation
It is used to determine whether and to what extent the expected changes occurred and whether these changes can be attributed to the program activities
Ongoing Evaluation or Monitoring
It is done during implementation to provide feedback on compliance in the plan to improve the process and outcomes of interventions
Formative Evaluations
These are conducted during program development and implementation and are useful if you want direction on how to best achieve your goals or improve your program
Summative Evaluations
It should be completed once the programs are well established and will tell you to what extent the program is achieving its goals
Utility
It is the value of the evaluation in terms of usefulness of results. This will help provide basis for utilizing the community health process in dealing with other community concern in the future.
Feasibility
It answers the questions of the plan for evaluation considering the resources available for conducting the evaluation.
Accuracy
It refers to the validity and reliability of the results of the evaluation. It beings with accurate documentation while the community health process is ongoing.
Propriety
The respect for worth and dignity of the participants upon data collection should be given consideration
The Stage of Orientation
It is one of the stages of group development wherein they must determine a way to achieve their primary task—the purpose for which they joined the group.
The Stage of Conflict
The experience on this stage is between members and leader. Its concern is over dominance, control, and power.
The Stage of Cohesiveness
After the previous conflict, the group gradually develops into this stage.
Work Group Stage
In this stage, members accept another's differences without associating "good or bad" with the differences
Orientation, Structure, and Direction
In this intervention, the level of anxiety can be reduced by helping provide the necessary orientation, structure, and direction to the group.
Process, Negotiate, and Resolve Conflicts to Member's Satisfaction
In this intervention, their dynamism characteristic of the work group is maintained if the hostility and conflict in the group are permitted to develop.
Awareness of the Effects of Behavior
In this intervention, the nurse of the facilitator of the group discussion exerts an influence on the behaviors and experience of the group members.
E-Health
It is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health
Telemedicine
It is the umbrella of eHealth
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
It is a systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.
Client Registry
Manages the unique identification of citizens receiving healthcare services
Provider Registry
Manages the unique identification of healthcare providers
Health Facility Registry
Manages the unique identification of places where health services are administered
Standards Terminology Service
Manages the unique identification of clinical activities, standards health data sets, terminologies, and formats.
Shared Health Record
A repository of clients' records with information in the exchange
Interoperability Layer
Receives communication from various application systems being used by the health facilities and orchestrates message processing