Republic Act No. 9711, an act strengthening and rationalizing the regulatory capacity of the Bureau of Food and Drugs by establishing adequate testing laboratories and field offices, upgrading its equipment, augmenting its human resources complement, giving authority to retain its income, renaming it the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ameding certain sections of Republic Act No. 3720, was signed by President on August 18, 2009.
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Feed SubscriptionCOPAR: Community Organizing Participatory Action Research
COPAR stands for Community Organizing Participatory Action Research. A social development approach that aims to transform the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community. Understand COPAR and its steps with this post.
Read More »Home Visits: Step, Guidelines, Purposes, Princples
The home visit is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related activities. In performing this activity, it is essential to prepare a plan of visit to meet the needs of the client and achieve the best results of desired outcomes.
Read More »Family Nursing Care Plan: Assessment & Diagnoses in Family Nursing Practice
The family nursing process is the same nursing process as applied to the family, the unit of care in the community.
Read More »DOH Maternal Health Program
The Maternal Health Program is a set of actions and services administered by the DOH to aid women before, during and after pregnancy.
Read More »Food Fortification Program
Food Fortification Program is the response to the growing micronutrient malnutrition prevalent in the Philippines for the past several years.
Read More »Department of Health (DOH) Health Calendar 2012
The Department of Health has three major roles in the health of the Filipinos: (1) leadership in health; (2) enabler and capacity builder; and (3) administrator of specific services. Read the scheduled activities of the Department of Health this 2012 January Deworming of School Children (Grades 1-6) Round 1 National Cancer Consciousness Week January18-22 Goiter Awareness Week January 24-30 World Leprosy ...
Read More »Primary Health Care: History, Elements, Strategies, & Pillars
An essential health care made universally acceptable to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country and afford at every stage of development.
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