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Laws Affecting Community Health Nursing Practice in The Philippines

The document lists several key laws affecting community health nursing practice in the Philippines. These include the Bayanihan Act which provided emergency response to COVID-19, the Universal Health Care Law which aims to provide affordable and accessible healthcare for all Filipinos, and laws related to public health workers, clean air, generic drugs, national health insurance, blood donation, reporting of communicable diseases, and access to cheaper medicines. The laws establish frameworks and programs relating to health services, insurance, environmental health, and reporting of diseases that community health nurses must adhere to in their practice.

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Laws Affecting Community Health Nursing Practice in The Philippines

The document lists several key laws affecting community health nursing practice in the Philippines. These include the Bayanihan Act which provided emergency response to COVID-19, the Universal Health Care Law which aims to provide affordable and accessible healthcare for all Filipinos, and laws related to public health workers, clean air, generic drugs, national health insurance, blood donation, reporting of communicable diseases, and access to cheaper medicines. The laws establish frameworks and programs relating to health services, insurance, environmental health, and reporting of diseases that community health nurses must adhere to in their practice.

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Doña Remedios Trinidad Romualdez Medical Foundation

COLLEGE OF NURSING
Tacloban City

LAWS AFFECTING COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES


Republic Act No. 11469 - Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (Bayanihan Act)
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2020/03mar/20200324-RA-11469-RRD.pdf

Republic Act No. 11223 - Universal Health Care (UHC) Law


http://www.congress.gov.ph/legisdocs/ra_17/RA11223.pdf

https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2019/02feb/20190220-RA-11223-RRD.pdf

Republic Act No. 7305 – Magna Carta for Public Health Workers
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1992/03/26/republic-act-no-7305-s-1992/

Republic Act No. 8749 – Clean Air Act of 1999


https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1999/ra_8749_1999.html

Republic Act No. 6675 – Generics Act of 1998, act to promote, require and ensure the production of
an adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their
generic names, Medicines are prescribed in generics
https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1988/ra_6675_1988.html

Republic Act No. 7875 – National Health Insurance Act of 1995; An Act Instituting A National
Health Insurance

Program For All Filipinos And Establishing The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation For The Purpose.

Republic Act No. 10606 - An Act Amending Republic Act No. 7875, Otherwise Known As
The "National Health Insurance Act Of 1995″, As Amended, And For Other Purposes
https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10606_2013.html

https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/about_us/IRR_NHIAct_2013.pdf

Republic Act No. 7875 – National Health Insurance Act


https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/about_us/ra7875.pdf

Republic Act No. 7719 – National Blood Service Act of 1994 ; An Act Promoting Voluntary Blood
Donation, Providing For An Adequate Supply Of Safe Blood, Regulating Blood Banks, And
Providing Penalties For Violation Thereof
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1994/05/05/republic-act-no-7719/

Republic Act No. 3573: Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases.


https://laws.chanrobles.com/republicacts/36_republicacts.php?id=3561

Senate Bill 2186 seeks to amend Republic Act 3573 or the Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases
2712323349!.pdf

http://legacy.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2019/0204_prib2.asp#:~:text=2186%2C%20said%20the%20measure%20seeks,7134.
Republic Act No. 11332: “Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public
Health Concern Act”
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2019/04apr/20190426-RA-11332-RRD.pdf

R.A. 9502 of 2008 – “Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008"

Cheaper Medicines Act


https://ww2.fda.gov.ph/index.php/issuances/280-pharml/pharml-republic-act/150832-republic-act-no-9502

https://ww2.fda.gov.ph/attachments/article/150832/RA%209502.pdf

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