Philippine Health Laws

Question 1

Republic Act that ensure health workers are properly compensated, thereby helping to promote better delivery of quality life.

Answer 1

RA 7305

Question 2

Presidential Decree that prescribe sanitation requirements for food establishments and refuse collections and disposal system of cities and municipalities.

Answer 2

PD 856

Question 3

This RA provides more responsive local government structure instituted through a system of decentralization whereby LGUs are delegated more powers, authority, responsibilities, and resources.

Answer 3

RA 7160

Question 4

The PD that enjoins all citizens and residents of the Philippines, educational institutions, and commercial and industrial establishments to clean their own surroundings, as well as the canals, roads, or streets in their immediate premises. Undertake to keep said lots clean at the owner’s expense

Answer 4

PD 825

Question 5

This EOs purpose is to treat, manage and rehabilitate individuals affected by disease and disability.

Answer 5

EO 102

Question 6

A comprehensive air quality management and program which aims to achieve and maintain healthy air for all Filipinos

Answer 6

RA 8749

Question 7

Act that provides protection and improvement of nursing profession by instituting measures that shall result in relevant nursing education, humane working conditions, better career prospects and dignified existence for nurses.

Answer 7

RA 9173

Question 8

This PD seeks to ensure that children, particularly infants, and their mothers have access to vaccines recommended for their age to prevent specific diseases.

Answer 8

PD 996

Question 9

This act aims to enhance the competence of the professional by upgrading and updating knowledge and skills for the profession as brought about by modernization, scientific and technical advancements in the profession

Answer 9

RA 10912

Question 10

An act to promote, require and ensure the production of an adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their generic names.

Answer 10

RA 6675

Question 11

The RA that provide all citizens of the Philippines with the mechanism to gain financial access to health services.

Answer 11

RA 7875

Question 12

This act promotes voluntary blood donation to provide sufficient supply of safe blood and to regulate blood banks.

Answer 12

RA 7719

Question 13

Known as the “Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act”

An act providing policies and prescribing procedures on surveillance and response to notifiable diseases, epidemics, and health events of public health concern.

Answer 13

RA 11332

Question 14

The goal of this Act is to inspire and support senior citizens in contributing to nation building. It also aims to encourage families and communities to uphold the Filipino tradition of caring for the elderly.

Answer 14

RA 7432

Question 15

This act aims to recognize the rights of senior citizens to take their proper place in society and make it a concern of the family, community, and government.

Answer 15

RA 9994

Question 16

Known as the “Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002”

This act safeguards the integrity of its territory and the well-being of its citizenry particularly the youth, from the harmful effects of dangerous drugs on their physical and mental well-being, and to defend the same against acts or omissions detrimental to their development and preservation.

Answer 16

RA 9165

Question 17

The law intends to achieve better health outcomes for the Filipino people by assuring that quality medicines are accessible and affordable to as many Filipinos especially the poor.

Answer 17

RA 9502

Question 18

Known as the “ Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act”

An act mandating the provision of emergency relied and protection for children before, during, and after disasters and other situations.

Answer 18

RA 10821

Question 19

Violence against women and their children, providing protective measures for victims
(Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004)

Answer 19

RA 9296

Question 20

Strengthening the Philippine disaster risk reduction and management system
(Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010)

Answer 20

RA 10121

Question 21

Providing incentives to all government and private health institutions with rooming-in and breastfeeding practices
(Rooming-In and Breastfeeding Act of 1992)

Answer 21

RA 7600

Question 22

An act expanding the promotion of breastfeeding, amending for the purpose RA 7600
(Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act)

Answer 22

RA 10028

Question 23

Guarantees universal and free access to nearly all modern contraceptives for all citizens, including impoverished communities
(The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act)

Answer 23

RA 10354

Question 24

An act providing for the safety of children aboard motorcycles
(The Children’s Safety on Motorcycles Act of 2015)

Answer 24

RA 10666

Question 25

Comprehensive strategic program of action to provide children, pregnant and lactating mothers affected by disaster and other emergency situations with the utmost support and assistance necessary for their immediate recovery (Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act)

Answer 25

RA 10821

Question 26

This PD aims to coordinate the implementation and enforcement of all laws, formulate, monitor and evaluate policies, programs and measures for children and make sure that the rights of a child are protected (The Child and Youth Welfare Code)

Answer 26

PD 603

Question 27

An act regulating the packaging, use, sale distribution, and advertisements of tobacco products (Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003)

Answer 27

RA 9211

Question 28

Grants the president 30 special powers to address COVID-19 (Bayanihan to Heal as One Act)

Answer 28

RA 11469