Health 10

1. CONSUMER
HEALTH
Health 10 Quarter 1 (Lesson 1)

2. R.A. NO. 7394
is known as the CONSUMER
ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES
A law that protects the interests
of the consumer, promotes
general welfare, and
establishes standards of
conduct for business and
industry.
 See page 224-225.

3. CONSUMER HEALTH
Application of consumer
skills in the wise evaluation,
selection and use of health
information, products and
services.

4. HEALTH INFORMATION
It is information that people
require to make wise
choices and decisions about
their health or the health of
other people. (Galvez Tan, et.al. 2009)

5. HEALTH PRODUCTS
Are food, drugs,
cosmetics, devices,
biologicals, vaccines,
in-vitro diagnostic
regeants, etcetera.

6. RELIABLE SOURCES OF
HEALTH INFORMATION

7. RELIABLE SOURCES
Licensed professionals who
took up specialized and
intensive studies in the field.
Have qualified educational
background.

8. HEALTH SERVICES
 Are often connected to healthcare.
 These programs aim to appraise the
health conditions of individuals through:
 screening and examinations
 cure and treat disorders
 prevent and control the spread of diseases
 provide safety, emergency care, and first aid
 ensure follow-up program for individuals
who have undergone treatments.

9. HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
Is a trained professional
who provides people with
healthcare. (Meeks,et.al.,2011)

10. THREE TYPES OF HEALTHCARE
PROVIDER:
1. Health Professionals
2. Healthcare Facilities
3. Health Insurance

11. 1. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Individuals who are
licensed to practice
medicine and other allied
health programs.

12. HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER
Independent healthcare
provider who is licensed to
practice on a specific area of
the body.

13. ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
A trained healthcare provider who
practices under the supervision of a
physician or healthcare practitioner.
Nurses, dieticians, pharmacists,
physical therapists.

14. 2. HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
Places or institutions that
offer healthcare services.
Hospital (G/S) (PVGT)
Walk-in Surgery Center
Health Center
Extended Health Care Facility

15. 3. HEALTH INSURANCE
A financial agreement between
an insurance company and an
individual or group for the
payment of healthcare costs.
Protection that provides
benefits for sickness and
injury.

16. VARIOUS TYPES:
1. Medical Insurance
2. Major Medical Insurance
3. Hospitalization Insurance
4. Surgical Insurance
5. Disability Insurance

17. HEALTH MAINTENANCE
ORGANIZATION (HMO)
A healthcare provider that
offers medical services
that are availed through a
prepaid amount of money.

18. COMPLEMENTARY &
ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE
MEDICINES

19. COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Availed and integrated
together with traditional
medicine.

20. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Offered in place of
traditional medicine.

21. FOUR MAJOR DOMAINS:
1. Biology-based practices
2. Energy medicine
3. Manipulative or body-
based medicines
4. Mind-body medicine

22. R.A. NO. 8423
Traditional or Alternative
Medicine Act of 1997
Provisioned the creation of the
Philippine Institute of
Traditional and Alternative
Healthcare (PITAHC)

23. ASSIGNMENT: (PROJECT 1)
Answer ACTIVITY 8, page
210.
Make a brochure of these
10 Herbal Medicines

24. ASSIGNMENT: (PROJECT 2)
Make a brochure of the 5
given examples of
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
on page 211-212
JULY 10 - Deadline

25. QUACKERY

26. QUACKERY
A form of health fraud, is
any advertisement,
promotion, or sale of
products and services that
have not been scientifically
proven safe and effective.

27. It is being operated by a
quack, an individual that
has little or no
professional qualifications
to practice medicine.

28. He/she pretentiously uses
meaningless medical jargon
and relies on scare tactics,
paranoid accusations and
quick fixes.

29. THREE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS:
Big business
Multiplies and spreads fast
Thrives on individuals who
are diagnosed with illness
that are known to have no
cure.

30. THREE MAJOR FORMS:
Medical
Nutrition
Device

31. MEDICAL QUACKERY
Cures, treatments, and
remedies of various health
conditions that are drugless
and bloodless in nature.

32. NUTRITION QUACKERY
Promotion of food fads ad
other nutritional practices
that claim to be all natural.
Believed to have multiple
plants in one product.

33. DEVICE QUACKERY
Makes use of
miraculous gadgets
that are believed to
cure certain health
conditions.

34. Answer Activity 17 on
page 221.