Philippine Health Laws & Legislation

What it covers

• How to read a law item: instruments, eras and the number heuristic
• The nursing law and its lineage from Act 2808 to RA 9173
• Who regulates whom: physicians, midwives, BHWs
• The midwife's statutory scope
• The rural health service: RA 1082, RA 1891, AO 114
• The anti-hospital-deposit law, RA 8344 and RA 10932
• Reporting from Act 3573 to RA 11332
• TB, leprosy and the immunization chain
• The HIV law's consent rules
• Medicare to PhilHealth to UHC
• Generics, cheaper medicines, hospital licensure
• The senior and PWD entitlement chains
• The mother-and-child statute shelf
• Child welfare: PD 603, RA 6972, the protection kit
• NCD, environmental, workplace and nutrition laws
• Read the stem, name the law