REPUBLIC ACT R.A.

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DESCRIPTION - known as the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees. This code upholds a time honored principle that public office is a trust. It is the policy of the state to promote high standards of ethics in public offices. -Local Government Code, the responsibility for the delivery of basic services and facilities of the national government has been transferred to the local government. This involves the devolution of powers, functions, and responsibilities to the local government, both provincial and municipal. -Magna Carta for Public Health Workers, this act aims to promote and improve the social and economic well-being of health workers, their living and working conditions and terms of employment to develop their skills and capabilities in order for them to be more responsive and better equipped to deliver health projects and programs. -Standardized the salaries of government employees which include nursing personnel. -Philippine Medical Act, this act defines the practice of medicine in the country. -the first Rural Health Act, this act called for the employment of more physicians, dentists, nurses, midwives and sanitary inspectors who will live in rural areas where they are assigned to help raise health condition in barrio people and thus help abate the still high incidence of preventable diseases in the country as a whole. -Philippine Nursing Act of 2002, an act providing for a more responsive nursing profession, declaring the policy of the state

R.A. 7160

R.A. 7305

R.A. 6758

R.A. 2382

R.A. 1082

R.A. 9173

R.A. 3573

R.A. 1891

to assure responsibilities for the protection and improvement of the nursing profession . -Declared that all communicable diseases should be reported to the nearest health station, and that any person be inoculated, administered or injected with prophylactic preparations. -Amended R.A. 1082, it strengthened health and dental services in the rural areas and created health units. -Clean Air Act. -Tobacco Regulation Act.

R.A. 8749 R.A. 9211 R.A. 8976 R.A. 6365

R.A. 9255

R.A. 7432

-Philippine Food Fortification Act. -Established a National Policy on Population and created the Commission of Population. -Provides for illegitimate children to use the surname of their fathers. -Maximizes the contribution of Senior Citizens to nation building and grant benefits and special privileges. -Rooming-in and Breastfeeding. -Newborn Screening. -Anti-Violence against Women and Children. -Advance Corneal Transplantation in the Philippines.

R.A. 7600 R.A. 9288 R.A.9262 R.A. 7885

R.A. 7719 R.A. 7875 R.A. 6675

R.A. 6425 -National Blood Service. R.A. 4073 -National Health Insurance Act 0f 1995 R.A. 8423 - The Generics Act of 1988 which

R.A. 8203 R.A. 4226

promotes, requires and ensure the production of adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs, medicines identified by their generics name. -Dangerous Drug Act.

R.A. 8504 -Liberalized the treatment of leprosy. -Created the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC). -Special Law on Counterfeit -Hospital Licensure Act, requires all hospitals in the Philippines to be licensed before it can offer to serve the community. -Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control.

Reference: Cuevas, F.P., Reyala, J., Earnshaw, R., Bonito, S., Sitioco, J., Serafica, L. (2007) Public Health Nursing in the Philippines, Laws Affecting Public Health Nursing pp 341344