Mapeh Reviewer
Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive System Act of 2012 (RA 10354)
Reproductive Health Law = Guarantees universal access to methods of Contraception, Fertility Control, Sexual Education, and Maternal Care.
Implies that women and men attain equal relationship in matters related to sexual relation and reproduction.
Family Planning = Provides information and a means for couples and individuals to have the desired number of children that they can responsibly raise.
Importance of family planning:
To mothers
2-3yrs interval for delivery.
Give time and opportunity to give sufficient attention to themselves.
Provide enough time for treatment.
To children
Quality time and attention from thier parents
Opportunities to enjoy
Secure their needs (food, clothing & good education are being provided)
To fathers
Lightens the burden and responsibilities.
Allows time to himself, his wife and children.
Having extra resources and enough time.
Give time for treatment.
To family
More opportunities to enjoy each other.
Enable to have savings that can be used for emergencies.
Improve their living standard.
To the community
There will be better job opportunities.
More time to socialize among community members.
Participate in school, communities and other socio-civic activities.
To the country and the world
Exponential growth of population.
Population growth has been a source of numerous economic problems.
Responsible Parenthood = About raising children and supporting their needs financially, morally, educationally, teaching them values and giving them love and care.
Parent do the following:
Plan and work
Plan(desired number of children, spacing, and timing.
Respond to the needs
Contraceptives = To prevent pregnancy, couples would have to decide on a particular procedure, device or medication that would prevent the chances of pregnancy.
Advantage
Avoidance of unplanned pregnancy.
Protection from STI's or Sexually Transmitted Infection/ STD.
Most contraceptives are reversible.
Couples can decide the gap between each child in a family and the number of children to have in a family.
Disadvantage
Some of the process, especially surgical contraception, is irreversible.
Some women complains to simple harmful side effects like irregular bleeding, development of cancer cells, weight loss or gain and much more.
Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003(RA 9211)
Purpose
To promote a healthful environment.
Inform the public of the health risk.
Subsequently limit all tobacco advertisiment and sponsorship.
Protect youth from being initiated to cigarette smoking.
Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 (RA 9165)
- A policy imposed by the government to deal with the state's problem with illegal drugs, particularly how it affects the youth.
Aims to:
Protect the integrity of all Filipinos
Pursue a serious and an intensive campaign.
Make sure that people with legitimate medical needs.
Provide effective mechanisms or measures to reintegrate into society.
Consumer Act of the Philippines, 1992(RA 7394)
- To protect the interest of the consumers and buyers of product and services. It also set and maintain standards of conduct for both business and industrial sectors.
Governments that implement the act:
1. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Products quality and safety
Consumer products and service warranties
Price tag
Labeling and packaging
Liability for products and services
Advertising and sales promotion
2. Department of Agriculture (DA)
Quality and safety
Labeling and packaging
3. Department of Education (DepEd)
Consumer education and information
4. Department of Health (DOH)
Quality and safety
Price tag
Labeling and packaging
Advertising and sales promotion
5. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
Consumer credit transaction extended by banks and other financial intermediaries
6. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Credit facilities extended to consumers by financing companies.
National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008 (RA 9512)
- Promote national awareness on the role of natural resources in economic growth and the importance of environmental conservation and ecological balance toward sustained national development.
Governments that implement the act:
1. Departments of Education (DepED)
2. COMMISSION on Higher Education (CHED)
3. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
4. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) coordination with
5. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
6. Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 (RA 8423)
- Healthcare law passed on December 9, 1997 sponsored by Senator Juan Flavier. This law is providing quality healthcare options to every Filipino through developing traditional medicinal methods and integrating them into the existing national healthcare system.
Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998 (RA 8504)
HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, weakens your immune system by destroying important cells that fight disease and infection. Over time HIV can destroy so many of your T-cells or CD4 cells, a key part of your immune system, that your body can't fight infections and disease anymore. When this happens, HIV infection can lead to AIDS.
AIDS or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, a complex illness with a wide range of complications and symptoms. AIDS is the final stage of HIV. When individuals reach this stage, they are at high risk for opportunistic infections due to their badly damaged immune system.
HIV is found in specific human body fluid like:
Blood
Pre-seminal fluid(pre-cum)
Vaginal fluids
Semen(cum)
Breast milk
Rectal(anus) mocous
Signs and symptoms of HIV in the early stage:
Fever
Night sweats
Fatigue
Chills
Muscle aches
Swollen lymph nodes
Rash
Sore throat
Ulcers in the mouth
Public Awareness
Causes, Modes Transmission, Consequences, Means of Prevention and Control
- In addition, the law includes a nationwide educational and information campaign to promote value formation and to employ scientifically proven approaches to combat the problem.
National Blood Services Act of 1994 (RA 7719)
- Promoting Voluntary Blood Donation, providing for an adequate supply of safe blood, regulating blood banks and providing penalties for violation thereof.
AIMS to have full voluntary blood donation considers:
Safe and adequate blood supply
Effective recruitment from healthy, low risk population
Proper donor selection and counseling
Seat Belt Use Act of 1999 (RA 8750)
- Requires mandatory compliance by motorists of private and public vehicles to use seatbelt devices and requires vehicle manufacturers to install seat belt in all their manufactured vehicles.
AIMS to protect the drivers and passengers from injuries due to vehicular accidents.
Covered in this law are:
The driver and front seat passengers while inside a running vehicle
Children 6yrs and below should not be in the front seat of a running vehicle
Signs should be posted instructing front seat passengers to wear seat belts while inside a running vehicle.
Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175)
Cybercrime offenses
1. Illegal Access
Access to the whole or any part of a computer system without the right to do so.
2. Illegal Interception
Technical means and without right, of any non-public transmission of computer data to, from or within a computer system.
3. Data Inference
Reckless alteration, damaging, deletion or deterioration of computer data without right, including transmission of viruses.
4. System Interference
Intentional alteration or reckless hindering or interference with the functioning of a computer or computer network by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deletion, deteriorating, altering… including the introduction or transmission of virus.
5. Misuse of Devices
Intends to criminalize the intentional possession of or trafficking in “hacker tools” designed to facilitate the commission of a crime.
6. Cybersquatting
The acquisition of a domain name over the internet in bad faith to profit, mislead, destroy reputation and deprive other from registering the same.
Computer-Related Offenses
1. Computer-Related Forgery
The act of knowingly using computer data which are the product of computer-related forgery as defined herein, for the purpose of perpetuating a fraudulent or dishonest design.
2. Computer-Related Fraud
The unauthorized input, alteration or deletion of computer data or program or interference in the functioning of a computer system, causing damage thereby with fraudulent intent.
3. Computer-Related Identity Theft
The intention acquisition, use misuse, transfer, possession, alteration, or deletion of identifying information belonging to another, whether natural or juridical, without right.
Content-Related Offenses
1. Cybersex
Willful engagement, maintenance, control or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system, for favor or consideration.
2. Child Pronography
Committed through a computer system.
3. Unsolicited Commercial Communication
Transmission of commercial electronic communications with the use of computer systems which seek to advertise, sell or offer for sale products and services is prohibited.
4. Libel
Publication of writing, pictures, cartoons, or any other medium that expose a person to public hatred, shame, disgrace, or ridicule, or induce any ill opinion of a person, and are not true.
Government Agencies
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
Philippine National Police (PNP)
Responsible for the implementation of the provision of this act.
Department of Justice(DOJ)
Responsible for assisting in investigation or proceedings concerning criminal offenses related to computer system or data.
Anti-Child Pronography Act of 2009 (RA 9775)
Pronography includes:
Publication
Exhibition
Cinematography
Indecent show
Simulated sexual activities
Any representation of the sexual parts of a person primarily for sexual excitement.
Role of the state: Promote the welfare of children and protect them from physical, emotional, moral, spiritual harm, and injury.
The Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (RA 8749)