REPUBLIC ACT No. 7883
AN ACT GRANTING BENEFITS AND INCENTIVES TO
ACCREDIT BARANGAY HEALTH WORKERS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Barangay Health Workers’ Benefits and Incentives Act of 1995.”
Sec. 2. Statement of Policy. – The state shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and to provide conditions of health empowerment, where each individual has access to information and services that will bring about health and well being. The Primary Health Care Approach is recognized as the major strategy towards health empowerment, emphasizing the need to provide accessible and acceptable health services through the participatory strategies such as health education, training of barangay health workers, community building and organizing. Toward this end, this Act shall provide incentives to communities an act as frontliners in the Primary Health Care approach.
