Lesson 5 Flashcards
Environmental Health/Laws and Policies in Public Health
refers to all physical, chemical, and biological factors
external to a person, and all related behavior, but
excluding those natural environments that cannot be
reasonably modified (The World Health Organization
(2018).
▪ “As a fundamental component of a comprehensive
public health system, environmental health works to
advance policies and programs to reduce chemical and
other environmental exposures in air, water, soil, and
food to protect residents and provide communities
with healthier environments” (National Environmental
Health Association, 2016).
Environmental health
▪It is (a) the promotion of hygiene and, (b) the prevention of
disease and other consequences of ill-health, relating to
environmental factors (WHO, 2018).
▪Disposal of human excreta, sewage, household waste and
other waste likely to contain infectious agents, water
drainage, domestic water supply, and housing are included
under this definition.
Environmental Sanitation
▪In the Philippines, _________
remains a key legal document regulating all the areas cited
above. It contains a comprehensive list of standards,
prohibitions, and prescriptions that ultimately promote the
well being of all Filipinos thru a healthy environment?
Presidential Decree 856 series of 1975
What is the presidential decree 856?
Sanitation Code of the Philippines
Presidential decree 825?
Anti Littering Law
Republic Act 9003?
Solid Waste management Act
Republic Act 9275
Clean Water Act
Republic Act 8749?
Clean Air Act
Republic Act 9512?
National Environmental Awareness and Education act
Executive order 26?
Nationwide smoking Ban
Republic Act 10611?
Food Safety Act
Republic Act 11311?
Provision of clean toilets in public transportation Termina’s
Color coding for healthcare waste: Nonhazardous and nonbiodegradable wastes?
Black or colorless
Color coding for healthcare waste: Pathological/anatomical wastes?
YELLOW WITH BIOHAZARD SYMBOL
Color coding for healthcare waste: Nonhazardous biodegradable wastes?
GREEN
Color coding for healthcare waste: Infectious wastes?
Yellow bag that can be autoclaved
Color coding for healthcare waste: Pharmaceutical, cytotoxic, or chemical wastes(labeled separately)
Yellow with black band
Color coding for healthcare waste: Radioactive wastes?
ORANGE with radioactive symbol
It is hereby declared the policy of the State to assume responsibility
for the protection and improvement of the nursing profession by
instituting measures that will result in relevant nursing education,
humane working conditions, better career prospects and a dignified
existence for our nurses.
● The State hereby guarantees the delivery of quality basic health
services through an adequate nursing personnel system throughout
the country.?
Philippine Nursing Act of
2002 (RA 9173)
The State shall instill health consciousness among our people to effectively
carry out the health programs and projects of the government essential for the
growth and health of the nation?
-For purposes of this Act, “health workers” shall mean all persons
who are engaged in health and health-related work, and all persons
employed in all hospitals, sanitaria, health infirmaries, health centers,
rural health units, barangay health stations, clinics and other healthrelated establishments owned and operated by the Government or its
political subdivisions with original charters and shall include medical,
allied health professional, administrative and support personnel
employed regardless of their employment status
Magna Carta for Public
Health Workers (RA 7305)
It is hereby declared the policy of the State to adopt an integrated and
comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor
to make essential goods, health and other social services available to
all the people at affordable cost and to provide free medical care to
paupers.
● Towards this end, the State shall provide comprehensive health care
services to all Filipinos through a socialized health insurance program
that will prioritize the health care needs of the underprivileged, sick,
elderly, persons with disabilities (PWDs), women and children and
provide free health care services to indigents.
National Health Insurance
Act of 2013 (RA 10606)
It is hereby declared the policy of the State to improve the quality and
delivery of health care services to the Filipino people through the
development of traditional and alternative health care and its
integration into the national health care delivery system.
● It shall also be the policy of the State to seek a legally workable basis
by which indigenous societies would own their knowledge of
traditional medicine. When such knowledge is used by outsiders, the
indigenous societies can require the permitted users to acknowledge
its source and can demand a share of any financial return that may
come from its authorized commercial use.??
Traditional and
Alternative Medicine Act
of 1997 (RA 8423)
UHC means all Filipinos are
guaranteed equitable access to
quality and affordable health care
goods and services, and
protected against financial risk
● Pres. Duterte signed ________
into law on February 20, 2019
Universal Health Care Act
(RA 11223)
It is hereby declared the policy of the State:
○ To promote, encourage and require the use of generic terminology in the
importation, manufacture, distribution, marketing, advertising and
promotion, prescription and dispensing of drugs;
○ To ensure the adequate supply of drugs with generic names at the lowest
possible cost and endeavor to make them available for free to indigent
patients;
○ To encourage the extensive use of drugs with generic names through a
rational system of procurement and distribution;
○ To emphasize the scientific basis for the use of drugs, in order that health
professionals may become more aware and cognizant of their therapeutic
effectiveness; and
○ To promote drug safety by minimizing duplication in medications and/or
use of drugs with potentially adverse drug interactions?
Generics Act of 1988
(RA 6675)
