Publications

  • Booklet: Psychosocial Well-being for Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines

    Booklet: Psychosocial Well-being for Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines

    This booklet, ‘Psychosocial Well-being for Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines’, aims to provide HRDs with the basic knowledge to address their well-being individually, organisationally and as a movement.

  • Ano ang mga karapatan mo bilang isang Pasyente? (Patient’s Rights Comics)

    Ano ang mga karapatan mo bilang isang Pasyente? (Patient’s Rights Comics)

    Ang sampung (10) Karapatan ng mga Pasyente na nakatala sa komiks na ito ay hango mula sa DOH Administrative Order 2017-0061 (Official Version of Patient’s Rights), na isinalin sa Filipino at nakabase sa DOH Department Memorandum 2017-0061 (Adoption of the Filipino Translation of the Patient’s Rights).

  • A Study on Quality of Certificate of Death in the Philippines

    A Study on Quality of Certificate of Death in the Philippines

    This scoping study tackles the quality and procedures in the issuance of Certificate of Death (also known as Municipal Form 103), especially on cases of death under non-natural causes. The research aims: to check if the standard on the death certification is compliant; to determine the real cause and manner of death but to ascertain…

  • MAG Selfcare Handbook

    MAG Selfcare Handbook

    [PDF Copy] The Medical Action Group published a handbook with instructional content targeting human rights defenders to urge them to practice self-care.

  • Torture and the Right to Rehabilitation in the Philippines

    With support from the International Rehabilitation Council for the Prevention of Torture (IRCT), MAG and Balay Rehabilitation Center have written a 2016 Country Report on the status of torture and right to rehabilitation in the Philippines.

  • MAG Self-Care Handbook and Poster for Human Rights Defenders

    MAG Self-Care Handbook and Poster for Human Rights Defenders

    The Medical Action Group published a handbook with instructional content targeting human rights defenders to urge them to practice self-care.

  • THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL FRAMEWORK OF REHABILITATION

    The health status of an individual is one of the most significant and relevant reflection of how much one person’s total rights are guaranteed and enjoyed. “Health is not merely the absences of disease, but the complete state of physical, mental and social well-being (Alma Ata Declaration, 1978).” The framework emphasizes that the individual is…