Health Lesson 1: Health Trends, Issues and Concerns (National Level) Flashcards
Guarantees universal access to methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. It is also informally known as the Reproductive Health La or RH Law.
Responsible Parenthood and reproductive health act of 2012 (10354)
Natural outcome of marriage.
About raising children and supporting their needs financially, morally, educationally, teaching them values, and giving them love and care.
Responsible Parenthood
The Three (3) R’s before becoming Parents
- Resources needed to raise a child
- Reasons for wanting a child
- Responsibilities one has as a parent
Responsibilities of parents
Set aside quantity and quality of time to spend with children
Learn about age-appropriate development to have realistic expectations.
Teach rules to ensure health and safety of children
Give love and affection
Teach with a positive attitude
Teach moral and ethical values
Teach self-discipline and self-control with effective discipline
Provide economic security
Recognized that children have rights and respect those rights
Raise children in a suitable, secure family that is free from abuse.
Refers to the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. This implies that people are able to have a responsible, safe, and consensual sex life.
Reproductive health
A program that provides information and a means for couples and individuals to have the desired number of children that they can responsibly raise.
Family planning
Importance of Family Planning to Mothers
To mothers:
Taking 2-3 year intervals for delivery helps a mother to recover and regain health.
Gives mothers time and opportunity to give sufficient attention to themselves, their families, and their communities.
Importance of Family Planning to Children
To children:
Helps healthy mothers raise healthy children.
Get quality time and attention from their parents
More opportunities to enjoy and feel secured
Importance of Family Planning to Fathers
To fathers:
Lightens the burden and responsibility of the father in supporting his family.
Allow fathers to have time for himself, to his wife and children.
Importance of Family Planning to Families
To Families:
Family members have more opportunities to enjoy each other’s company.
Enables them to have savings that can be used for emergencies and to improve their living standards.
Importance of Family Planning to Communities
To the community:
Improves economic and social status of the community.
Better job opportunities and extra resources like skills, money, time and materials to share in the community.
Healthy place to live in
Importance of Family Planning to the World
To the World:
By observing family planning in a community, the rapid use of resources like land, food, and fuel can be reduced and sanitation control would be more effective.
Prevents pregnancy, couples would have to decide on a particular procedure, device, or medication that would prevent the chances of pregnancy.
Birth Control
Hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to perform any child pornography
Anti child pornography act of 2009 (RA 9775)
Proliferation of fake/ hazardous products
Traditional and alternative medicine act of 1997 (8423)
