PRELIM 02 - R.A. 8423

Question 1

Also known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997

Answer 1

RA 8423

Question 2

RA 8423 led to the creation of __________

Answer 2

Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC)

Question 3

The sum total of knowledge, skills, and practices on health care used in the prevention, diagnosis, and elimination of physical or mental disorder

Answer 3

Traditional and alternative healthcare

Question 4

The sum total of knowledge, skills, and practice on healthcare to help maintain and improve the health towards the wholeness of the being

Answer 4

Traditional medicine

Question 5

The discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated

Answer 5

Biomedicine

Question 6

Other forms of techniques that are non-allopathic and occassionally non-indigenous and imported healing methods

Answer 6

Alternative health care modalities

Question 7

Finished, labelled, medicinal products that contain plants or other materials or a conbination thereof

Answer 7

Herbal medicines

Question 8

Refers to foods that are grown spontaneously in nature whether or not they are tended by man

Answer 8

Natural product

Question 9

Any or all preparations involved in the production of a consumer product

Answer 9

Manufacture

Question 10

The relatively old, highly respected people with a profound knowledge of traditional remedies

Answer 10

Traditional healers

Question 11

The legal basis by which the indigenous communities exercise their rights to have access over their cultural knowledge and product

Answer 11

Intellectual property rights

Question 12

Is the term used to describe the treatment of medical conditions with medications by doctors, nurses, and other conventional healthcare providers

Answer 12

Western medicine