HEALTH 10 Week 7 PD

Week 7
Most Essential Learning

Competencies
• Explain the guidelines and criteria in the
selection and evaluation of health information,
products and services
• Discuss the various forms of health service
providers and healthcare plans
Activity
Directions: The
following are sources
of information on
consumer health.
Identify whether they
are reliable source
or unreliable source.
Activity
Neighbors
Friends
Health Magazines Books
Health Professionals Pamphlets
Elderly Books
Government Agencies Researches
What is Consumer
Health?
• Consumer health is not just
about buying health
products and services.
• It is also about making
decisions and having a clear
and deeper understanding
to make wise choices.
Components
of Health
Consumer
1. Health Information
2. Health Products
3. Health Services
1. What is Health
Information?
• is any concept, step, or advice that various
sources give to aid the health status of an
individual.
• type of information varies depending on various
considerations such as but not limited to health
history, drugs and alcohol consumption, and
eating disorders.
Example
Date of Expiration
Product Manufacturer Uses Ingredients
Manufacturing Date
Gatas ni Milk Phil. To Milk January 5, January

Water,
Mang Inc., enhance skimmed milk 2019 21,
Tomas Candon growth powder, 2021
City pasteurized
and yoghurt
I.S stronger powder,
immunity sugar,
apple juice
concentrate
Health
Information
Reliable or
Unreliable?
Some Reliable Sources of
information
1. Medical and health professionals
(Family and school doctors, dentists,
nurses, health science educators)
2. Government agencies like Department
of Health (DOH), Food and Drug 4. Local health
Administration (FDA), Bureau of Food and
Drugs (BFAD), Department of Trade and officials
Industry (DTI)
5. Educational
3. Websites ending in gov, edu, institutions
and org.
Some Unreliable 1. Outdated customs,
practices, and superstitions
Sources of Health without scientific basis
Information 2. Information based on
ignorance and prejudice
3. Commercialized health
information
4. Personal options and
incomplete information
5. Quack or pseudo healers
2. What is Health
Products?
• food, • vaccines,
• drugs, • in-vitro diagnostic
• cosmetics, reagents,
• devices, • and
household/urban
• biologicals, hazardous substances
- may be purchased from various places like
supermarkets, pharmacies, and hospitals.
Examples: eyeglasses, appliances,

medicines, grooming aids, car, etc.
3. What is a • refer to the furnishing of medicines,
medical or surgical treatments, nursing,
Healthcare hospital service, dental service, optometric
service, and complementary health
Service? services.
These Programs aims to: •cure and treat disorders
•Appraise health • prevent and control the
conditions through spread of diseases,
screening and •provide safety, emergency
examinations, care, first aid
• Examples: medical and dental consultation and treatment,
Guidelines on the Purchase
of Goods and Services
1. Evaluate which products and services will
be beneficial, harmful or useless.
2. Know the local laws and regulations that
protect consumers.
3. Locate dependable medical, dental and
nursing services.
4. Apply knowledge acquired with respect to
personal and environmental health in the
purchase of personal goods and services
Health Services
usually offered by
healthcare providers. “A
healthcare provider is a
trained professional who
provides people with
healthcare”. Health
services are offered by
health service providers.
Three
Types of
Health
Services
These are individuals
who are licensed to
practice medicine
and other allied health
programs and work in
the medical profession.
Examples: doctor, nurse,
nutritionist, etc.
II. Healthcare
Facilities
These are places or
institutions that offer
healthcare services.
Examples: hospitals,
walk-in surgery center,
health center, extended
healthcare facility.
III. Health Insurance
•It is a financial agreement between an

insurance company and an individual or
group for the payment of healthcare costs.
Consumer Health refers to the decisions
you make about the purchase and use
of health information, products, and
services that will have a direct effect on
your health. It has three components
namely: health information, health
products and healthcare services.
Criteria and guidelines must be
considered when availing health
Health professionals, services or product. Details of the
product, source of information,
health facilities and feedback mechanisms are some of the
insurance are the three things to be considered. As a wise
types of health providers. consumer, you should be able to gather
information, compare available
One type of insurance is products, and inquire for more so all
the PhilHealth. doubts will be erased.
Constructed
Response
1. You are to buy a health product,
specifically a beauty soap.
However, you do not have
sufficient and accurate information
about the product. What could
possibly happen to you if you buy
this product without researching
on its details?
2. Is there a need for you to

know the guidelines in
choosing products? Why?
Module 2
Healthcare
Providers and
Fraudulent
Services
Most Essential Learning
Competencies
• Select health professionals, specialists and
health care services wisely and
• Know how to report fraudulent health
services
Identify the health
professionals
concerned on the
following pictures.
Select your answer on
the given choices.
CARDIOLOGIST
DERMATOLOGIST
GASTROENTEROLOGIST
GERIATRICIAN
GYNECOLOGIST
NEUROLOGIST • ORTHOPEDIST
• OPHTHALMOLOGIST
• PEDIATRICIAN
• PULMONOLOGIST
• UROLOGIST
• CARDIOLOGIST
• DERMATOLOGIST
• GASTROENTEROLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• OPHTHALMOLOGIST
• PEDIATRICIAN
• PULMONOLOGIST
• UROLOGIST
• CARDIOLOGIST
• DERMATOLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• OPHTHALMOLOGIST
• PULMONOLOGIST
• UROLOGIST
• CARDIOLOGIST
• DERMATOLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• PULMONOLOGIST
• UROLOGIST
• CARDIOLOGIST
• DERMATOLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• UROLOGIST
• DERMATOLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• UROLOGIST
GERIATRICIAN
GYNECOLOGIST
ORTHOPEDIST
UROLOGIST
• GERIATRICIAN
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• UROLOGIST
• GYNECOLOGIST
• ORTHOPEDIST
• UROLOGIST
Quackery
is a form of a health fraud, an
advertisement, promotion, or sale
of products and services that have
not been scientifically proven safe
and effective. It is being operated
by a quack.
How do you describe
a Quack Doctor?
- has a little or no
professional qualifications
to practice medicine
- pretentiously uses
meaningless medical jargon
and relies on scare tactics,
paranoid accusations, and
quick fixes.
1.It is a big business.
2.It multiplies and
Three Major spreads fast. It is
Characteristics progressive.
of Quackery 3.It is claimed that it
is for incurable
condition.
Possible Effects of 1. Taking a quack “cure” may
Quackery: delay or lose the chance
to be healed.
4. Giving false hopes to
the sick person and the 2. The person may
family. experience placebo effect
5. The actual damage – that he/she improves
done to the individual by for natural reasons and
using fake products and not because of the
services substance that the quack
6. It may cause overdose provides.
and over medicines. 3. Loss of money
Three Forms of
Quackery
I. Medical Quackery
II. Nutritional
Quackery
III. Device Quackery
I. Medical Quackery
includes cures,
treatments, and
remedies of various
health conditions that
are drugless or
bloodless in nature.
II. Nutritional
Quackery
involves promotion of
food fads and other
nutritional practices that
claim to be all-natural.
These are believed to
have beneficial properties
of multiple plants in one
product.
makes use of
III. Device Quackery miraculous
gadgets (such as
dials, gauges,
electrodes,
magnets, and
blinkers) that are
believed to cure
certain health
conditions.
Selecting the correct health
provider can give the health
consumer the advantage of
receiving the accurate and
appropriate medical treatment.
Having the knowledge of the
different health providers can also
protect the health consumer from
fraudulent health providers such as
quacks.
As a Grade 10 student,
how can you protect
your family and yourself
from quackery?
Constructed Response

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Most Essential Learning

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