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Region VIII
Division of Southern Leyte
HEALTH - 10
QUARTER 2
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS: Consistently demonstrates critical thinking skills in exploring local, regional and national
health
trends issues, and concerns.
I. INTRODUCTION:
There are national laws related to health that are essential to ensure the safety, health, and
welfare of all Filipinos. One of the national law related to health trends, issues and concerns is
the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health act 2012.
II. EXPLORATION:
The promotion of gender quality, gender equality, women empowerment, and dignity both as a health and human
rights concern and as social responsibility is also recognized and guaranteed by the law.
This law cover the following policies implemented by the state in order to prevent and control the spread of acquired
immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which has become one of the most life-threatening diseases that has no known
cure yet.
Promote public awareness about the causes, modes of transmission, consequences, means of prevention
and control of HIV/AIDS through a comprehensive nationwide educational and information campaigns shall
promote value formation and employ scientifically proven approaches, focus on the family as a basic social
unit and be carried out in all school training centers, workplace, and communities. This program shall involve
affected individuals and groups including people living with HIV/AIDS.
It covers the following policies implemented by the state regarding blood services:
Promote and encourage voluntary blood donation by the citizenry
and to instill public consciousness of the principle that blood
donation is a humanitarian act.
Lay down the legal principle that the provision of blood for
transfusion is a professional medical service and not a safe of a
commodity.
Provide for adequate, safe affordable, and equitable distribution of
supply of blood and blood product
Inform the public of the need for voluntary blood donation to curb the
hazards caused by commercial sale of blood.
Teach the benefits and rationale of voluntary blood donation in the
existing health subjects of the formal education system in all public
and in private schools, in the elementary, high school and college level as well as in the non-formal
educational system.
Mobilize all sectors of the community to participate in mechanisms for voluntary and non-profit collection of
blood.
Require upgrading of blood collection unit and blood banks or centers to operate on a non-profit basis.
Establish scientific and professional standards for the operation of blood collection units and blood banks or
centers in the Philippines.
The following policies implemented by the state to ensure the youth’s general welfare:
Guarantee the fundamental rights of every child from all forms of neglect, cruelty and other conditions prejudicial
to his/her development.
Protect every child from all forms of exploitation and abuse including but not limited to the following:
- the use of a child in pornographic performance and materials
- the inducement or coercion of a child to engage or be involved in pornography through whatever means
Comply with international treaties to which the Philippines is signatory or a state party concerning the rights of
children which include but not limited to the following:
- the convention on the right of the child
- the optional protocol to the convention on the pornography
- The International Labor Organization (ILO) convention No. 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Form of Child
Labor and
the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
DO NOT SUBMIT THIS MODULE. SUBMIT ONLY THE Learner’s Activity Sheet (LAS).