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Health
Quarter 1 - Module 4
Consumer Health

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Health – Grade 10
Quarter 1 – Module 4: Consumer Health

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Writer/Compiler : REYMART S. PACUT - Teacher I, SNHS

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About the Module
This module is so designed for you to easily understand and be knowledgeable in the
field of consumer health. This is not just limited to Consumer Health for it can also be
applied in other learning areas. Moreover, we have applied suitable language that can
cater to the different vocabulary levels of the students, all while having topics arranged
in sequential order.

The module is divided into four lessons, namely:

● Lesson 1 – Components of Consumer Health
● Lesson 2 - Healthcare Services
● Lesson 3 – Health Care Providers
● Lesson 4- Quackery

Through this module, you will be able to:

1. explain the guidelines and criteria in the selection and evaluation of health
information products and services;
2. discuss the various forms of health service providers and health care plans;
3. select health professionals. Specialists and health care services wisely; and
explain the nature and dangers of quackery

What I Know

Directions: Read the following questions carefully. Encircle the letter of the best answer
in each item.
1. How do you call the person patronizing the health and wellness products?
A. user B. consumer C. producer D. composer
2. What statement best describes the word Decision Making Skills?
A. As you decide to come what may.
B. Choose whatever you decide that suits you.
C. What makes you comfortable and no need to consult other people.
D. The act of choosing between two or more courses of action to find
possible solutions to a problem.

3. What term defines the idea we hear from people around and what we read from
books and other printed materials?
A. Health Service C. Health Consumer
B. Health Information D. Health Products

4. People as healthy consumers purchase food, drugs, cosmetics, devices, vaccines,

households, etc. What do you call these products?
A. Health Products C. Consumer Services
B. Consumer Products D. Consumer Health Products

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5. What services are provided by medical practitioners?
A. Health Education C. Health Information
B. Consumer Services D. Health Services

6. Which of the following offers health services?

A. Health Services C. Health Consumer
B. Health Consumer Services D. Health Care Providers

7. How can you tell if the source of information is credible? If…

A. it is a mere hearsay
B. the information is not updated.
C. the information is coming from a reliable source.
D. the product statement is fabricated.

8. What terminology tells about the accuracy, provision, and completeness of

information?
A. content B. credibility C. disclosure D. interactivity

9. When can you tell that if the product is bound for disclosure?
A. The information disseminated is wrong.
B. The marketing purpose gets sloppy.
C. This tells about the purpose and caveat of the information.
D. This tells that the product is available and you at your own volition.

10. Which of the following words refers to the feedback mechanism and means of
information exchange between the source and the consumer?
A. content B. credibility C. disclosure D. interactivity

11. What do you call the individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and
other allied health programs?
A. caregiver C. health professionals
B. health providers D. careless practitioners

12. Collectively, hospitals, walk-in surgery centers, health centers, and extended
healthcare facilities are known as:
A. Healthcare Centers C. Healthcare Facilities
B. Health Centers D. Health Providers

13. What is used to refer to the financial agreement between an insurance

company and an individual or group for the payment of healthcare costs?
A. Health Insurance C. Insurance for Life
B. Healthcare Insurance D. Sun Life Insurance

14. Which facility offers surgery without the patient being admitted to the hospital?
A. Hospitals C. Walk-In Surgery Centers
B. Health Centers D. Extended Healthcare Facilities

15. Healthcare Practitioners and allied health professionals are also known as:
A. Caregiver C. Health Professionals
B. Careless Practitioners D. Health Care Provider

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 Lesson Components of Consumer
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What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you will be able to:
1. recognize the components of consumer health;
2. promote health habits appropriate to the new normal in one’s community; and
3. classify and evaluate the different components of consumer health according to its
reliability and unreliability.

What’s In
Think About it

What are the preparations that you have made during this pandemic?

When you buy a product do you consider its nutritional facts before purchasing it?

What are the services did you avail of to meet your needs during the lockdown?

Consumer Health promotes a person’s capacity to assess and use health information,
products, and services wisely and effectively. All of us are consumers. We get health
information, buy health products, and use health services to check, improve, and
maintain our health.

What’s New & What is It

All of us should think twice about the selection of information, products, and
services that are scientifically tested and proven. It should also be approved for human
consumption. Most importantly, we need to verify our sources. Lastly, let us be vigilant
in finding out how best we can be educated in the components of Consumer Health.

Components of Consumer Health are:

A. Health Information
Health information is a fact we hear from people around us,
read from books and other printed materials, or from the media that
influence our health.

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 B. Health Products
Health products are items that we consume to improve our well-
being, like medicine, food, clothes, furniture, electronics, etc.
C. Health Services
Health services are programs we avail from various providers such
as physicians, nurses, therapists, health workers, hospitals, clinics,
and the government. Some examples of these health services are
insurance, treatment, and cure, complementary and alternative
medicine.

● Reliable- Information or data that is accurate or able to be trusted.

● Unreliable- Sources of information that are not verifiable.

ACTIVITY
Instruction: The following are the usual activities done by most teenagers during this
pandemic. On the right column, check for the appropriate activities that can protect
yourself and others from getting sick during this pandemic.

Activities (✓)

When Coughing and sneezing cover your nose with a tissue

Hug your friends

5 meters away from someone

Stay at home

Borrow gadgets from your friends

Always sanitize your hands before and after eating

What I Have Learned

To check what you have learned from this lesson elaborate further on
the statement below. Write five sentences only.

“Make a Wise Choice for Better Health.”

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 What I Can Do
Direction: Complete the table by writing three (3) reliable and
two (2) unreliable data of the following components of consumer health. In this way,
you can help yourself and live a healthy life during this pandemic.

Information Products Services

Reliable Unreliable Reliable Unreliable Reliable Unreliable

(e.g. DOH) (e.g. Social (e.g. (e.g. DIY (e.g. Swab (e.g. Steam
Media) Alcohol) Facemask) Testing) Inhalation
(Tuob)

Lesson
Healthcare Services
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What I Need to Know
After going through this module, you will be able to:
1. review the various forms of healthcare providers;
2. describe the different types of services offered by various providers; and
3. identify the different health services offered by your barangay to break the chain
of COVID19.

What’s In
Nowadays there are a lot of government agencies offering help to
prevent people from being infected from COVID19. Health services
are now being accessible to the public.

Reflect on the following questions

What information can we acquire from hospitals?

What kind of services can we get from other healthcare providers and facilities?

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 What’s New & What is it
Types of Healthcare Providers

A. Health Professionals

Individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and other allied

health programs. An example of a health professional is a physician. A physician
records the medical history of individuals, provides diagnoses, performs medical
examinations, and prescribes medications.

B. Healthcare Facilities- are places or institutions that offer healthcare

services. There are different types of healthcare facilities (Meeks, et al.,
2011).

a. Hospital - It is an institution where people undergo medical diagnosis,

care, and treatment. Types: private, voluntary, government, and teaching.

b. Walk-In Surgery Center It is a facility that offers surgery without the

patient being admitted to the hospital.

c. Health Center The services in a health center cater to a specific

population with various health needs.

d. Extended Healthcare Facility A facility that provides treatment,

nursing care, and residential services to patients, often the elderly.

C. Healthcare Insurance- is a financial agreement between an insurance

company and an individual or group for the payment of healthcare costs” (Payne,
et al., 2005). This also may pertain to a “protection that provides benefits for
sickness and injury” (Meeks, et al., 2011).

ACTIVITY

Direction: The table below shows: Column A- healthcare

providers. Fill in Column B services offered.

Column A Column B

Healthcare Providers Service/s offered

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 1. Hospitals

2. Medical Laboratories

3. Healthcare insurance

What I have learned

Have you ever been to healthcare providers? Yes or No?

What will you do if one of the family members, who is an elderly, shows symptoms of
coughing, loss of appetite, and shortness of breathing? What kind of medical
assistance does he/she need?

Write your answer in 2-3 sentences

What I can do
Directions: List down the various health services offered in your
barangay by completing the information below. Ask help from your family member.

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 Lesson
Health Care Providers
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What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you will be able to:
1. determine the different job descriptions of each health care providers;
2. acknowledge their services in our community; and
3. construct a thank you letter for our health professionals.

What’s In
Think About It!

Have you ever been to a doctor? Why?

What kind of health service does he/she offer?

What’s New & What Is It?

Health Care Provider- any person determined to be capable of providing health

services.

Health Professionals- they are individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and
other allied health programs. An example of a health professional is a physician. A
physician records the medical history of individuals, provides diagnosis performs
medical examinations, and prescribes medications.

ACTIVITY

Direction: What are the different types of physicians? Identify the type of physician
with their area of specialization below.

Cardiologist Geriatrician Neurologist Pediatrician Pulmonologist

1._____________ 2.____________ 3.______________ 4._______________

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 What I Have Learned
In five (3) sentences summarize your learning about this topic.

What I Can Do
Directions: Health care providers are considered heroes during this
pandemic. Let us acknowledge them by creating a slogan
showing their hard work. Do it in a short bond paper. Use the
rubric below as your guide.

Category 5 3 2 1

All graphics All graphics are

The are related to related to the All graphics Graphics do not
relevance of the topic and topic and most relate to the relate to the
the theme make it easier make it easier to topic. topic.
to understand. understand.

Several of the One or two of The graphics are No graphics

graphics used the graphics made by the made by the
Originality on the poster used on the student but are student are
reflect an poster reflect based on the included.
exceptional student designs or ideas
degree of creativity in of others.
student their creation
creativity in and/or display.
their creation
and/or
display.

The poster is The poster is The poster is The poster is

Attractiveness exceptionally attractive in acceptably distractingly
attractive in terms of design, attractive messy or very
terms of layout, and though it may be poorly designed.
design, layout, neatness. a bit messy. It is not
and neatness. attractive.

Write a short thank you letter to our healthcare professionals.

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 Lesson
Quackery
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What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you will be able to:
1. explain the meaning of quackery;
2. identify the three forms of quackery; and
3. increase awareness of quackery.

What’s In
Think About It!

Have you ever been to a quack doctor?

Why do you think some people choose quackery as medication over health care
professionals?

What’s New & What Is It?

Consumers receive health information, products, and
services from various sources; thus, individuals may be prone to fraud. An
example of this is quackery.
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.

Three Forms of Quacker

A. Medical quackery
Medical quackery includes cures, treatments, and remedies of
various health conditions that are drugless or bloodless.
B. Nutrition quackery
Nutrition quackery involves the 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.
C. Device quackery
Device quackery makes use of miraculous gadgets (such as dials,
gauges, electrodes, magnets, and blinkers) that are believed to cure certain
health conditions.

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 ACTIVITY
Direction: Study the pictures and identify the three forms of quackery, write your
answer on the space provided.

A B C

1.________________ 2.________________ 3.____________________

What I Have Learned

“Medical practices without scientific basis is the greatest form of
quackery.” How can people get away from quackery? Explain your

What I Can Do
Directions: Complete the table by writing five (5) other
examples of medical, nutrition, and device
quackery.

Medical Nutrition Devices

(e.g Albularyo) (e.g Apple Cider Vinegar) (e.g Magnetic Bracelet)

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 Assessment
Directions: Read the following questions carefully. Choose the letter of
the best answer in each item. Write the answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What term defines the idea we hear from people around and what we read from
books and other printed materials?
A. Health Service C. Health Consumer
B. Health Information D. Health Products

2. People as healthy consumers purchase food, drugs, cosmetics, devices,

vaccines, households, etc. What do you call these products?
A. Health Products C. Consumer Services
B. Consumer Products D. Consumer Health Products

3. Collectively, hospitals, walk-in surgery centers, health centers, and extended

healthcare facilities are known as:
A. Healthcare Centers C. Healthcare Facilities
B. Health Centers D. Health Providers

4. Healthcare Practitioners and allied health professionals are also known as:
A. Caregiver C. Health Professionals
B. Careless Practitioners D. Health Care Provider

5. Which facility offers surgery without the patient being admitted to the hospital?
A. Hospitals C. Walk-In Surgery Centers
B. Health Centers D. Extended Healthcare Facilities

6. Which of the following offers health services?

A. Consumer Services C. Health Consumer
B. Health Services D. Health Care Providers

7. How do you call the person patronizing the health and wellness products?
A. user B. consumer C. producer D. composer
8. What term defines the idea we hear from people around and what we read from
books and other printed materials?
A. Health Service C. Health Consumer
B. Health Information D. Healthy Products

9. Individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and other allied health
programs are called what?
A. Caregiver C. Health Professionals
B. Health providers D. Careless practitioners
10. A form of health fraud, sale of products, and services that have not been
scientifically proven safe and effective.
A. Alternative Medicine B. Herbs C. Hilot D. Quackery

11. It is an area of medicine that focuses on the health of the respiratory system that
can treat everything from asthma to tuberculosis.
A. Dermatologist B. Pulmonologist C. Cardiologist D. Neurologist

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12. Which of these quackery uses products like hair growing shampoos?
A. Balding Quackery C. Device Quackery
B. Beauty Quackery D. Food Quackery

13. Which of the following physicians in charge of the children?

A. Geriatrician B. Neurologist C. Obstetrician D. Pediatrician

14. What is used to refer to the financial agreement between an insurance company
and an individual or group for the payment of healthcare costs?
A. Health Insurance C. Insurance for Life
B. Healthcare Insurance D. Sun Life Insurance

15. What statement best describes the word Decision Making Skills?
A. As you decide to come what may.
B. Choose whatever you decide that suits you.
C. What makes you comfortable and no need to consult other people.
D. The act of choosing between two or more courses of action to find
possible solutions to a problem.

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Lesson 4
Medical Quackery
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Healer (Albularyo)
Hospitals Hilot
Information Magnet Therapy
Provides health services
such as surgery, Homeopathy
Reliable Unreliable Vitamin Megadose
DOH Social Media healthcare, and laboratory
Newspaper Hearsay services
Nutrition Quackery
Television Excessively Advertise
Clinic Multi- level Marketing
Products specific consultation for a Anecdotes
Alcohol DIY specific illness To good to be true
Face mask Facemask Disclaimers
Sanitizer
Services Health centers
Device Quackery
free check-up, medicines, Abs Stimulator
Swab testing Hilot service and vaccine for babies or Muscle Electrotherapy
newborn Acupuncture
Delivery of ayuda Self Tuob
Stimulator
services
Meridian Therapy
Massager
Relax Massage Chair
Lesson 4 Activity 1 Lesson 2
Health professionals
Medical Quackery Doctors (family med)
Pedia
Nurses
Device Quackery
Dentist
Midwife
Nutrition
Services
Free check up
Free dental care
Free immunization
Free vitamins
medicine supply for elders
Health care plans
Wear face mask
Stay at home
Wash hands properly
Answer key
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Schaller & Carroll. (1979). Health, Quackery & the Consumer. W.B. Sanders Company.

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