Module 5: Promoting and Protecting Health of Vunerable Populations Flashcards
What is the government body responsible of protecting rights of ICC/ IPs through gov. programs
National Commissions on IP
What is the law that covers the Indigenous Peoples?
RA 8371: The Indigenous Peoples Right ACT of 1997
What does the RA 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Right Act of 1997 State?
Recognize and promote all rights of ICC/ IP to gov basic services health. Also address social, economic, and cultural wellbeing
WHAT IS THE UNDRIP (INTERNATIONAL)
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007
- Improve economic and social conditions w/o discrimination
- traditional medicines and maintain health practice
- conserve vital medicinal resources and access health and social services w/o discrimination
4.enjoy highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
UNPFII
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2000
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2000
recommendation to include intercultural perspective w/n heath policies, programs , and services w/ special reference to reproductive health and reassess the role play of healers ad midwives as agents for exchange b/w ancestral medicine and western medicine
What RA is about Mental Health in the Philippines?
RA 11036: Philippines Mental Health Act
When was RA 11036 signed?
June 21, 2018
Before becoming a law, what was the senate bill passed which was signed into law and became RA 11036? and when was it passed?
Senate Bill no. 1354, 2017
What is the purpose of RA 11036?
To establish access to comprehensive and integrated mental health services while protecting ppl. with mental disorders and their families.
According Who, mental health illness, including suicide account for ____ of mortality worldwide
15%
How many percent of Filipinos are struggling with mental health disorders?
14% out 1.4 million Filipinos
Mental illnesses is the 3rd most prevalent form of morbidity in the Philippines?
TRUE
Females are more likely to commit suicide in the Philippines?
False.
B/w 1984- 2005:
males 0.23 to 3.59 per 100 000
females 0.12 to 1.09 per 100 000
What was believed during the Spanish era (1521–1898)
People with mental health disorders were believed to have offended the deities. Or have been victimized by a mangkukulam . So they were brought to church for purification and exorcism or healers or herbolarios
What was the first institutionalized care of mentally ill in the Philippines and when was this?
Hospicio de San Jose founded in 1782
Three mental hospitals during the American regime (1898 to 1946)
A. insane Department of San Lazaro Hospital
B. City Sanitarium
C. Insular Psychopathic Hospital
When was the Insane Department of San Lazaro Hospital established?
November 1904