Reproductive System, Family Planning, & Contraceptives

• Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 {RA 103534}

  RH Law - It is a law in the Philippines that guarantees universal access to methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care.
• Reproductive Health {RH}

  it refers to the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes.
• Family Planning - a program that provides information and a means for couples and individuals to have the desired number of children that they can responsibly raise. (helps in the spacing of childbirth)
• Responsible Parenthood - Parents plan and work to meet the goals of their family. They plan the desired number spacing, and timing of their children based on their health status, socio-economic concerns and religious convictions. Parents respond to the needs of their children.
• Parenthood - is generally considered as a natural outcome of marriage.It is about raising children and supporting their needs financially, morally, educationally etc.
• Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003

  To promote a healthy environment. It informs the public of the health risks associated with cigarette smoking and tobacco use
• Reproductive Health

  Is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters relating to the reproductive system.
• Fecundity - the biological capacity of a man or woman to have children at a future time
• Fertility - the realization of the reproductive potential or fecundity. It is the actual birth performance as measured by the number of offspring
• Sterility/Infertility - the inability to have children
• Heredity - one factor influencing of the innate ability to reproduce is the relative fecundity of one’s ancestors
• Health - a person with a certain innate reproducing capacity has the highest possible fecundity when he/she is in a state of vigorous health
• Age - childbearing is a function primarily of young adults. Declines in middle ages
• Ovulation Cycle - the human female produces ova periodically. When couples time their copulation during this Period, pregnancy may result.
• Breastfeeding - After a woman has given birth, and she does not breastfeed the child, the menstrual cycle normally begins in about two months and the ovulation cycle two months later still. Delayed ovulation means delay in the next pregnancy.
• Pregnancy Wastage - refers to abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirths
• Miscarriage - refers to the expulsion of the fetus from the fourth to the sixth months of pregnancy
• Spontaneous Abortion - the emptying of the pregnant uterus long before the fetus can survive by itself during the first three months of pregnancy
• Stillbirth - occurs when the fetus dies in the mother’s womb before it is delivered.
• Pregnancy wastage increases with age, perhaps doubling from 20-24 to 30-35 years.