Environment, Health, and Sports Issues

• Environmental, Health, Sports Issues in the Philippines

  1. Issue on Waste Segregation
  2. Smoking Ban
  3. Firecracker Ban
  4. Dengvaxia Issue
  5. Issue on ID Philhealth
  6. Ethical Issues Surrounding Gene Therapy
  7. Issue on Cutting of Trees
  8. Issue on Log Ban
  9. Issue on Mining
  10. Issue on Malnutrition
  11. Issue on the use of Mobile Phones
  12. Issue on Philippine Sports
• What is one of the biggest problems of waste management agencies and people in the country?

  Segregation of Waste
• What law was crafted in response to the growing rate of garbage problems in the country?

  RA 9003
• What is the ranking of the Philippines in the source of plastic thrown in oceans?

  Third
• How many metric tons of plastic garbage does the Philippines generate every year?

  2.7 million metric tons
• Executive Order 26: forbids the use of tobacco, including electronic cigarettes, in all public spaces, even in sidewalks. It also prohibits anyone under 18 from “using, selling or buying cigarettes or tobacco products.”
• Two rare conditions that Mr. Duterte has?

  Barret's Esophagus and Buerger's Disease
• Executive Order No. 28: banning fireworks in households or places of residence nationwide and shall only confine the use of firecrackers for “community works display.”
• Two culprits of the firecracker-related injuries?

  Piccolo and Five-star
• 630: the number of fireworks-related injuries and no death during the 2017 revelries
• Who made the DengVaxia?

  Sanofi Pasteur
• What city in Pangasinan has the highest recorded HIV cases?

  Dagupan City
• The prevalence rate of HIV among such people?

  40-50%
• Between Jan. 1984 and Sept. 2002, how many cases of HIV and AIDS were recorded by the DOH?

  1,761 HIV and 578 AIDS
• Gene Therapy: involves making changes to the body's set of basic instructions
• RA 3571: prohibits the cutting of trees and other ornamental plants which have been planted along public roads and in plaza for beautification purpose versus the nation-wide effects to improve the economy by facilitating flow of people, goods and services through capital investments in widening roads and bridges.
• PD 705: states that trees in private lands may only be cut with permission from DENR.
• 1,618: municipalities across the country already considered as disaster hotspots
• 3.4 million: number of children found stunted
• 300,000: number of underweight Filipinos, all under 5 years old
• 9th: the ranking of the Philippines with the highest prevalence of stunted children
• How many medals have the Philippines over the last 20 olympic games?

  9 medals--2 silvers and 7 bronzes
• When did the Philippines won more than one medal during the olympics?

  Los Angeles Olympics in 1932
• Who was the last to take home a medal from the olympics?

  Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco, silver in Atlanta 1996
• Mining: refers to the extraction of valuable minerals or

  other geological materials from the earth.
• Mineral Resources that are rich the Philippines

  1. Gold
  2. Copper
  3. Nickel
  4. Chromite
• What is the governing law that regulates mineral resources development in the country?

  RA 7942/The Philippine Mining Act of 1995
• Log Ban: is a regulatory measure imposed by

  authorities to prohibit or restrict the logging or

  cutting down of trees in specific areas, often

  implemented to protect the environment, prevent

  deforestation, conserve biodiversity, and mitigate

  climate change.
• Effects of Log Ban:

  1. Environment Impact
  2. Economic Impact
  3. Social impact
• Waste Segregation:be defined as the process of

  identifying, classifying,dividing and sorting of

  garbage and waste products in an effort to reduce,

  reuse and recycle materials.
• Smoke-free environment: refers to an area where smoking is prohibited as well as where there is effective protection against secondhand or environmental tobacco smoke.
• Inhaling and exhaling smoke produced by burning

  plant material is known as smoking.
• Bureau Circular No. 14 S, 2005: This circular from the Food and Drug

  Administration (BFAD) states that gene therapy is only available through trials.
• HUMAN CLONING PROHIBITION ACT OF 2003: is a legislative proposal that was introduced in the Philippines in 2003. The purpose of this draft act was to establish a legal framework to ban human cloning and impose penalties for any violations of the prohibition.
• RA 10699: AN ACT EXPANDING THE COVERAGE OF INCENTIVES GRANTED TO NATIONAL ATHLETES AND COACHES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS
• Vaccines are goods that shield us from dangerous, frequently fatal diseases by boosting the immune system, our body's natural defense

  against them.
• A pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.
• PhilHealth is the country's national health

  insurance program, established in 1995.