CHN 1 Flashcards
● To help improve maternal health (MDG4) and reduce
infant mortality rate (MDG5), the Department of
Health came up with strategies to help make quality
emergencies accessible to ordinary people and
make pregnancy and childbirth safer.
BEmONC AND CEmONC
CAPABLE BEmONC PROVIDER/FACILITY
● Hospitals
● RHUs
● BHS
● Lying-in clinics or birthing homes
● District
● Community Hospitals
● Capable network of facilities and providers that can
perform the following six signal obstetric
Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
(BEmONC)
● A tertiary-level hospital or medical center, whether
public or private, serves as an end-referral facility
equipped for complicated deliveries, cesarean
operations, specialized obstetric interventions, and
newborn emergencies, including the six signal
obstetric functions for BEmONC.
Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn
Care (CEmONC) Provider
● 3 doctors preferably obstetrician/surgeon or General
Practitioner (GP) trained in CEmONC (1 per shift)
● at least 1 anaesthesiologist or GP trained in
CEmONC (on call
CEmONC TEAM
conferred by the DOH and axed to the packaging of food products that have been certied as fortied either singly or in combination of the micronutrients vitamin A, Iron ,
and iodine
SANGKAP PINOY
also known as the Philippine Food Fortication Act. Mandates the fortication of rice with iron, wheat our with vitamin A, and Iron,
rened sugar with vitamin A, and cooking oil with
vitamin A; and promotes fortication of food
products through the Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program
R.A. 8976
Campaign to support the various health programs to
reduce childhood illnesses & deaths by promoting
positive child care behaviours
GARANTISADONG PAMBATA
● Marked dryness of the aected area in the
conjunctiva.
● The area appears roughened with ne droplets or
bubbles on the surface. It usually appears with
Bitot’s spots.
CONJUNCTIVAL XEROSIS
Foamy, soapy, whitish patches seen in the white
part of the eye ( scleral conjunctiva).
BITOT’S SPOTS
Cloudy, dry cornea with an orange-peel
appearance. Some people call this sh scale.
CORNEAL XEROSIS
soft, bulging cornea with large perforation or holes
in the surface.
CORNEAL ULCERATION/KERATOMALCIA
● Diculty in seeing in the dark
NIGHT BLINDNESS
● Mental, neurological and substance use (MNS)
conditions account for 13% of the global burden of
disease
● Yet between 75-90% of individuals with MNS
conditions do not receive the treat
MENTAL HEALTH GAP
An act establishing a national mental health policy
for the purpose of enhancing the delivery of integrated mental health services,
RA NO. 11036 (MENTAL HEALTH LAW)
● Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health
Act of 2012
● By denition: “Reproductive health is a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or
inrmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive
system and to its functions and processes.”
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10354
What does Reproductive Health mean in the
Philippines?
- Safe and Enjoyable Sexual Life
- The right to choose if, when, and how many children
to have - Access to safe pregnancy and childbirth services
- Sexual health beyond reproduction
● The Philippine Reproductive Health Program
○ Republic health package consisting of 10
elements
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 1-A, SERIES OF 1998
● The reproductive health policy to integrate republic
health services in all facilities
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 43, Series of 1999
Declared a national family planning policy through
Administrative Order 50 - A series of 2001
● The policy refocuses family planning as a health
intervention to women and children.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
a voluntary eort for the individual or couples of reproductive age with the
main purpose of limiting fertility by either natural
or articial means.
Family Planning
● Safe and fertile period is calculated based on her
previous shortest and longest cycle
● Get a 6 months history of the woman’s cycle
length/month
● Applicable for those who have 26-35 days cycle
● To get the rst day of fertile period, get the length o
CALENDAR METHOD / RHYTHM METHOD
● Identies days 8 to 19 of a woman’s cycle as the
fertile days
● Uses a necklace to identify the fertile and infertile
days
● Women with regular menstrual cycle ranging from
26 to 32 days can use the method
STANDARD DAYS METHOD