Practice question
A health agency adopts an integrated public health plan but refuses even to consider priority needs of underprivileged sick persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, women and children. Its memorandum says Article XIII, Section 11 requires identical allocation regardless of need and prohibits any priority. Which answer accurately states the provision?
- The memorandum reverses the text, which expressly gives priority to the identified needs within an affordable, comprehensive health approach
- The Constitution prohibits every public health program
- The provision recognizes only the needs of wealthy adults
- Priority means every requested treatment must always be supplied immediately without any governing law
- Health policy is entirely unmentioned in Article XIII
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article XIII, Section 11.
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