Public Health Laws - 5-8 Flashcards
An important element in the effective delivery of health service is the provision of medicines to treat endemic conditions affecting people in the community. It will reduce the unnecessary deaths and improve health outcomes. Drugs are essential for saving lives.
Republic Act 6675 – Generic Act of 1988
the identification of drugs and medicines by their scientifically and internationally recognized active ingredients or by their generic names as determined by the Bureau of Food and Drugs of the Department of Health.
Generic Terminology
nationally coordinated by the CDC, is a state-based system of cross-sectional health surveys of adults on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices and healthcare access.
The Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) -
useful for disease surveillance when they ask people about information most valid and reliable source
Population Based Surveys
monitors notifiable diseases and other health related events of public health importance utilizing an integrated approach
Philippines Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
on Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury Related Cases Persons with Disabilities Violence Against Women and Children
Unified Registry Systems
Four Critical Diseases
- Smallpox
- Poliomyelitis
- Human Influenza 4. SARS
is the identification of drugs and medicines by their scientifically and internationally recognized active ingredients or by their official generic name as determined by the Bureau of Food and Drugs of the Department of Health.
Generic Name or Generic Terminology
is the chemical component responsible for the claimed therapeutic effect of the pharmaceutical product.
Active Ingredient
is the description of the chemical structure of the drug or
medicine and serves as the complete
identification of a compound
Chemical Name
is the finished product
form that contains the active ingredients, generally but not necessarily in association with inactive ingredients.
Drug Product
- is any organization or company involved in the manufacture, importation, repacking and/or distribution of drugs and medicines.
Drug establishment
- is the proprietary name
given by the manufacturer to distinguish
its product from those of competitors.
(11) “Generic Drugs” are drugs not
covered by patent protection and which
are labeled solely by their international
non proprietary or generic name.
Brand Name -
“An act instituting a national health insurance
program for all Filipinos and establishing the
Philippine health insurance corporation for the
purpose”
republic Act 7875 – National Health
Insurance Act of 1995
List of Benefit Packages offered by
PhilHealth
a. Inpatient hospital care
b. Outpatient care
c. Emergency and transfer services
d. Other health services that Philhealth the
DOH shall determine to be appropriate
and cost-effective
Some of the packages provided by the
program include:
National Health Insurance Act of 1995
a. Malaria package
b. Outpatient HIV/Aids treatment package
c. TB-DOTS package
d. Maternity care package
e. Medical detoxification package
f. Z-benefit packages for catastrophic
diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular
disease, among others.
● Approved by President Fidel V. Ramos
on May 15, 1994
● An act promoting voluntary blood
donation, providing for an adequate
supply of safe blood, regulating blood
banks, and providing penalties for
violation thereof
● This act aims to inoculate public
awareness that blood donation is a
humanitarian act
Republic Act 7719 – National Blood
Service Act of 1994
An act providing policies and prescribing
procedures on surveillance and response to
notifiable diseases, epidemics, and health
events of public health concern
Republic Act 11332 – Laws on Notifiable
Disease
“Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases
and Health Events of Public Health Concern
Act.”
disease Notification Law
refers to disease that,
by legal requirements, must be reported to the
public health authorities.
Notifiable Disease
- It is a disease caused by pathogenic
microorganisms such as bacteria,
viruses, parasites, or fungi. - It is spread directly or indirectly, from
one person to another or from animals
to humans.
Infectious Diseases
- is
the continuous scrutiny of occurrences of
diseases and health related events to enable
prompt intervention for the control of diseases.
Disease Surveillance and Notification
an integral part of
disease surveillance, it involves the official and
timely reporting of the occurence of specific
diseases and conditions to designated public
authorities by clinicians and other health
personnel for action using designated reporting
tool.
Disease Notification
