Health Trends, Issues and Concerns 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 (RA 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
3Rs before becoming parents
Resources needed to raise a child
Reasons for wanting a child
Responsibilities one has as a parent
- 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.
Responsibilities of parents
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
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?
- taking 2-3 year interval for delivery helps a mother to recover and regain health.
- Give mothers time and opportunity to give sufficient attention to themselves, their families, and their communities.
Importance of family planning 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?
- lightens the burden and responsibility of father in supporting his family.
- Allow fathers to have time for himself, to his wife and children.
Importance of family planning to family?
- 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 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
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.
to prevent pregnancy, couples would have to decide on a particular procedure, device, or medication that would prevent the chances of pregnancy.
Birth control
regulates the packaging, use, sale, distribution, and advertisements of tobacco products. It aims to protect the public from the harmful effects of smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke, as well as to promote a health-conscious environment.
Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003
This law addresses the issue of illegal drugs in the Philippines. It defines and classifies regulated drugs and substances, establishes regulatory agencies, and prescribes penalties for offenses related to illegal drugs. It emphasizes a comprehensive approach, including prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and law enforcement.
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
