related farm and
scale mining, handicrafts, and other
off-farm activities;
refers to those who fall under the
9. Solo Parents"
solo parent defined under Republic Act
category of a
known as the "Solo Parents
No. 8972, otherwise
Welfare Act of 2000;"
refers to those residing in urban and
10. Urban Poor"
with or without the
urbanizable slum or blighted areas,
where the income of the
benefit of security of abode,
head of the
family
cannot aftord
in
a
sustained
manner
basic needs of food, health,
provide for the family's essentials in
life;
other
education, housing, and
to
Formal Economy'" refers to those
11. Workers in the
directly or
who are employed by any person acting
relation to
in the interest of an employer in
indirectly
include the government and all
an employee and shall
instrumentalities, all
its branches, subdivisions, and
GOCCs and institutions, as well as non-profit private
institutions or organizations,
Informal Economy" refers to selfhired,
or
personally
occasionally
employed,
workers in
subcontracted, paid and unpaid family
household incorporated and unincorporated enterprises,
12. "Workers in the
home workers, micro-entrepreneurs and
all other
producers, and operators of sari-sari stores and
including
categories who suffer from violation of workers' rights;
and
13. "Youth'" refers to those persons whose ages range
from fifteen (15) to thirty (30) years old as defined in
8044, otherwise
"Youth in Nation- Building Act;"
Republic
Act No.
known
as
the
P. "Medical Ethics" refers to a set of biomedical norms
a b i d e by the principles of autonomy or respect for persons,
beneficence and non-maleficence. In order to atfirm
Justice,
OTOmy, every effort
must
be
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made to
discuss treatment