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Health
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Health
Quarter 1 – Module 4:
Health Appraisal and Screening
Procedures
Health – Grade 7
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 4: Health Appraisal and Screening Procedures
First Edition, 2020

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 What I Need to Know

“Prevention is better than cure.”

Our goal is to attain a holistic health. It could be achieved through

monitoring your health status. Regular check-ups and screening tests are
important to monitor health status. The school health personnel perform
these check-ups and screening tests from the beginning onwards the end of
the school year. As you go along, you will notice that the diseases or health
condition you experience or encounter can be prevented. There are many
concerns that need to be addressed but with the correct and adequate health
information, positive attitude, healthy lifestyle practices and desirable coping
skills will help in attaining and maintaining holistic health.

This module will give you the knowledge and information that you may
use in your daily life. It focuses on the importance of health appraisal and on
how to undergo the series of screening test because undergoing with these
tests, helps you attain holistic health. You will be provided with a lot of
activities that will test your prior knowledge and will help you understand
more about health and test procedures.

Are you ready to learn more new things? Let’s start!

The module focuses on this lesson:

• Lesson 7 – Growth and Development: Health Appraisal and
Screening Procedures

After going through this module, you are expected to:

• explain the proper health appraisal procedures. H7GD-Ii-j-22
• demonstrate health appraisal procedures during adolescence in order
to achieve holistic health. H7GD-Ii-j-23

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 What I Know

A. Multiple choice
Directions: Write the letter of your answer in your activity notebook.
1. This test will inform you about your general health status.
A. Dental examination
B. Hearing test
C. Medical examination
D. Vision test
2. This test will inform you about your teeth and mouth condition.
A. Dental examination
B. Hearing test
C. Medical examination
D. Vision test
3. It is an abnormal curvature of the spine, which causes pain and affects
growth. What condition is this?
A. Breast cancer
B. Malnutrition
C. Scoliosis
D. Spinal cord
4. This examination can help females check any abnormalities in their breast.
A. Breast-Self Examination
B. Dental examination
C. Medical examination
D. Scoliosis screening

5. It refers to the series of procedures that assess or determine the health

status of students.
A. Health
B. Health appraisal
C. Health status
D. Physical fitness

6. The following are signs of scoliosis for doctor treatment EXCEPT one.
Which one is it?
A. A hip appears higher or is more prominent than the other.
B. The entire body is leaning to side by side.
C. The rib cage is uneven.
D. The waist is uneven.

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7. The following are personnel who conduct the screening test EXCEPT.
A. Canteen manager
B. School dentist
C. School nurse
D. School physician
8. The following are procedures on breasts examination of female EXCEPT.
A. While standing in front of a mirror with your hands pressing firmly
down on your hips, look at your breasts for any changes of size,
shape, contour, or dimpling, or redness of the nipple or breast skin.
B. Move around the breast in an up and down pattern starting at an
imaginary line drawn straight down your side from the underarm
and moving across the breast to the middle of the chest bone.
C. Lie down on your back and place your right arm behind your head.
D. A hip appears higher or is more prominent than the other.
9. Height taking: gives you an idea about your growth rate; Weight taking:
Keeps you
A. Aware if you are within your ideal weight at your age.
B. Informed of any dental problems.
C. Informed of your visual acuity.
D. Check unusual lumps.
10. The following signs should be referred to a doctor for treatment in scoliosis.
A. The spinal cord alignment is appropriate.
B. The bone is dislocated.
C. The rib cage is uneven.
D. The rib cage is even.

B. Matching Type
Directions: Match the functions in column A with the screening test in
column B. Write the letter that corresponds to your answer on the space
provided before each number. Do this in your activity notebook.

Column A Column B
1. Keeps you informed of any abnormal A. Breast-Self
curvature of your spine. examination
2. Checks unusual lumps. B. Hearing test
3. Checks the ability to hear the C. Height test
loudness and pitch of the sound. D. Scoliosis test
4. Keeps you informed of your visual E. Vision test
perception. F. Weight test
5. Gives you an idea about your growth
rate.

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 After checking the correct answer, you may now rate your performance
using the rubric below.
SCORE DESCRIPTION
13-15 Very Good
8-12 Good
5-7 Fair
1-4 Needs Improvement

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 Lesson Growth and Development:
1 Health Appraisal and
Screening Procedures

This module introduces the screening procedures of scoliosis and the

breast-self-examination that will help you attain holistic health.

Your teacher will help you clarify new terms and concepts. These questions
will guide you.

 How many times do you visit your barangay health center?

 Do you go with your parents to attend the medical program in your
barangay?
 Can you identify the medical tests that you had since you were in
elementary grade?

What’s In

From your previous lesson, you learned about the different coping
skills.

In this activity, you will be assessed if you still remember the different
coping skills.

Directions: Write SSS on the blank if the item refers to support-seeking

strategies, PPSS for positive problem-solving strategies, and PRS for positive-
reframing strategies. Do this in your activity notebook.
1. Take a deep breath.
2. Look at the problem as a challenge.
3. Seek advice from responsible family members/relatives.
4. Talk to a friend who can do something about your problem.
5. Believe that you can do it.

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 What’s New

What is your score in the exercise? How is your score? Are all the coping
strategies relevant to you?

After performing this activity, your prior knowledge about health

appraisal will be assessed.

Activity 1: My Thought
Directions: Using a concept map, write the words that can be associated with
“Health Appraisal” inside the circles. You may add more circles, if necessary.
Do this in your activity notebook.

Health
Appraisal

What aspects of your health appraisal do you think you should be most
attentive to? Why do you think so?

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 What is It

Health Appraisal and Screening Procedures

Health Appraisal are a series of procedures to assess or determine the health
status of a learner. Screening for blood pressure is added to the routine tests
for height, weight, vision, and hearing. Immunizations are also updated.
For girls, it is recommended to check your breasts for possible masses
or lumps the moment you start menstruating. You should do this monthly,
specifically one week after the onset of menstruation. You can do this while
taking a shower or facing the mirror. This breast self-examination (BSE) can
help females check any abnormalities that might need medical help.
Remember, there are normal changes during and right before menstruation
so it is better to perform BSE after menstruation. Develop the habit of doing
BSE monthly.

How to examine your breast:

1. Lie down on your back and place your

right arm behind your head. Use the
finger pads of the middle fingers on your
left hand to feel for lumps in the right
breast. Use overlapping dime-sized
circular motions of the fingers pads to
feel the breast tissue.

2. Move around the breast in an up and

down pattern starting at an imaginary
line drawn straight down your side from
the underarm and moving across the
breast to the middle of the chest bone
(sternum or breastbone).

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 3. Repeat examination on your left breast,
putting your left arm behind your head
and using the finger pads of your hand
to do the same.

4. While standing in front of a mirror with

your hands pressing firmly down on
your hips, look at your breasts for any
changes in size, shape, contour, or
dimpling, or redness of the nipple or
breast skin.

Scoliosis Screening

Scoliosis is a condition in which the spine

curves to the side. It is an abnormal lateral or side-
to-side curvature of the spine. This condition
commonly develops during sudden brief of the
growth of adolescents. It affects girls more often. This
condition can be corrected if treated early before the
bones have fully developed.

The following signs should be referred to a

doctor for treatment:

• One of the shoulder blades is more prominent.

• The head is not aligned to the center of the pelvis.
• A hip appears higher or is more prominent than
the other.
• The rib cage is uneven
• The waist is uneven
• The entire body is leaning to one side.

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 The graphic organizer below shows the importance of health
appraisal/screening test in attaining holistic health.

Medical Keeps you informed about

examination your general health status.

Dental Keeps you informed about

examination of any dental problems.

Height Gives you an idea about

Holistic taking your growth rate.
health
can be
achieved
Weight Keeps you aware if you are
by Screening
taking within your ideal weight.
practic- test
ing good
health
habits Keeps you informed of your
Vision test
and visual acuity.
submitt-
ing to
screen- Keeps you informed of any
ing tests. Scoliosis test abnormal curvature of your
spine.

Breast – Self Keeps you checked

examination unusual lumps.

Keeps you checked the

Hearing test ability to hear the loudness
and pitch of the sound.

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 What’s More

Well, you have just read about Health Appraisal and Screening
Procedures. The activity that follows will help you remember if you have
undergone screening test before and if you have attained holistic health.

Activity 1: Smile Doc!

Directions: Put before each item if you have undergone the procedure listed
below. Copy the table and answer in your activity notebook. Please answer
each of the items honestly.

1. Have you gone to a hospital/clinic/barangay center and been

informed about your general health status?
2. When you had a problem with your teeth, did you consult
your dentist and was informed about your dental condition?
3. Are you aware with your growth rate?
4. Have you visited the hospital to consult the doctor about your
spinal condition?
5. Have you consulted a medical expert to test your ability to
hear?
6. Do you have an idea about your ideal weight appropriate to
your age?

Answer the following questions to process the above activity.

1. How many items did you mark with a ? How many items you did
not mark?

2. Where can you avail the needed screening test?

3. Based on the activity, what is the importance of screening test to our

health?

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Activity 2: Match It Up!
Directions: Match the different types of screening test inside the box with the
picture below. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

Breast-Self examination Scoliosis test

Hearing test Vision test
Height test Weight taking

1. 4.

2. 5.

3. 6.

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Activity 3: I do it for you!

Directions: Write the function of each of the following screening tests. Follow
the chart below. Number one is done for you. Write your answer in your
activity notebook.

Screening Test Function

1. Vision test Keeps you informed of your visual perception.
2. Hearing test
3. Breast-Self
examination
4. Weight taking
5. Scoliosis test

What I Have Learned

How are you? Did you understand the Health Appraisal and Screening
Procedures?
In this activity, you will be assessed based on what you have learned
from this module.

Activity 1: Fill Me In!

Directions: Fill in the missing letters in the box to come up with the complete
word or phrase. Write your answer in your activity notebook.
1. It is one way to attain one’s holistic health condition.
S E G - T S

2. This test keeps you aware if you are within your ideal weight.
W I T - T K G
3. It is a series of procedures that assess or determine the health status
of students.

H L - P I L

4. It keeps you informed of any abnormal curvature of your spine.

R T - S F - E M T N

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 5. It is an examination that checks your breasts for possible masses or
lumps the moment you start menstruating.

M H Y

6. This test keeps you informed of your visual acuity.

V S N - S T

7. It is a condition in which the spine curves to the side.

S C I S

8. This test checks the ability to hear the loudness and pitch of the
sound.

E A G - T T

9. It keeps you informed of any abnormal curvature of your spine.

S L S S - E S

10. This test informs you of your general health status.

M I L - E A

Here is a rubric that best describes your achievement.

10-9 Very Good

8-6 Good

4-3 Fair

2-0 Needs
Improvement

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 What I Can Do

In your daily encounter with life’s changes, can you now identify the
procedure to assess your health status?
This activity shows the importance of health appraisal and how to
demonstrate procedures to achieve holistic health through visual art.

Activity 1: Showtime!
Directions: Have a creative illustration of at least three (3) screening test
showing their importance in real life situations. Use short bond paper. Draw
it in a landscape format.

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 Assessment

A. Multiple choice
Directions: Write the letter of your answer in your activity notebook.

1. This test will inform you about your general health status.
A. Dental examination
B. Hearing test
C. Medical examination
D. Vision test
2. This test will inform you about your teeth and mouth condition.
A. Dental examination
B. Hearing test
C. Medical examination
D. Vision test
3. It is an abnormal curvature of the spine, which causes pain and affects
growth. What condition is this?
A. Breast cancer
B. Malnutrition
C. Scoliosis
D. Spinal cord
4. This examination can help females check any abnormalities in their breast.
A. Breast-Self Examination
B. Dental examination
C. Medical examination
D. Scoliosis screening
5. It refers to the series of procedures that assess or determine the health
status of students.
A. Health
B. Health appraisal
C. Health status
D. Physical fitness
6. The following are signs of scoliosis for doctor treatment EXCEPT one.
Which one is it?
A. A hip appears higher or is more prominent than the other
B. The entire body is leaning to side by side
C. The rib cage is uneven
D. The waist is uneven

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7. The following are personnel who conduct the screening test EXCEPT
A. Canteen manager
B. School dentist
C. School nurse
D. School physician
8. The following are procedures on breasts examination of female EXCEPT
A. While standing in front of a mirror with your hands pressing firmly
down on your hips, look at your breasts for any changes of size,
shape, contour, or dimpling, or redness of the nipple or breast skin.
B. Move around the breast in an up and down pattern starting at an
imaginary line drawn straight down your side from the underarm
and moving across the breast to the middle of the chest bone.
C. Lie down on your back and place your right arm behind your head.
D. A hip appears higher or is more prominent than the other.
9. Height taking: gives you an idea about your growth rate; Weight taking:
Keeps you______________
A. Aware if you are within your ideal weight at your age
B. Informed of any dental problems
C. Informed of your visual acuity
D. Checked unusual lumps
10. The following signs should be referred to doctor for treatment in scoliosis.
A. The spinal cord alignment is appropriate
B. The bone is dislocated
C. The rib cage is uneven
D. The rib cage is even

B. Matching Type
Directions: Match the functions in column A with the screening test in
column B. Write the letter that corresponds to your answer on the space
provided before each number. Do this in your activity notebook.

Column A Column B
1. Keeps you informed of any abnormal G. Breast-Self
curvature of your spine examination
2. Checks unusual lumps H. Hearing test
3. Checks the ability to hear the I. Height test
loudness and pitch of the sound J. Scoliosis test
4. Keeps you informed of your visual K. Vision test
perception L. Weight test
5. Gives you an idea about your growth
rate

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 Additional Activities

Let us strengthen more your understanding of the health appraisal and

screening procedures. Do these.

Activity 1: Say something

A. Directions: Supply the following phrases with thoughts based on what

you have learned to complete the idea. Write your answer in your
activity notebook.
1. I believe that health
2. To attain holistic health, I must
3. I will visit the hospital or health center because

B. Directions: Based on your understanding of the lesson, write 2-3

sentences to answer the following questions in your activity notebook.

1. What will happen if you will not monitor your health status?

2. How will you identify a person who has attained holistic health?

3. Why are these different medical tests important?

4. What will you say to a person especially teenagers who did not consult a
medical personnel or visit the hospital for regular health condition check- up?

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What I Have Learned
What’s more
Activity 1: Fill Me In
1. Screening tests Activity 3: I do it for You!
2. Weight taking 1. It keeps informed the
3. Health visual acuity.
appraisal 2. It checks of the ability
4. Breast – self to hear the loudness
Examination and pitch of the
5. Monthly sound.
6. Vision test 3. It checks the abnormal
7. Scoliosis condition of the
8. Hearing test\ breast.
4. It gives an awareness
of the ideal weight at
the present age.
5.It checks the abnormal
curvature of the spine.
What’s More What's In Assessment
Activity 2: Match it up! 1. PRS 1. Multiple choice
A. Weight test • C
2. PPSS
• A
B. Scoliosis test
3. SSS • C
C. Hearing test
• A
D. Breast – self
4. SSS • B
examination
E. Height test • B
5. PRS
• A
F. Vision test
• D
• A
• C
2. Matching Type
a. D
b. A
c. B
d. E
e. C
Answer Key
References
Books

1. Department of Education. Physical Education and Health Teacher’s

Guide. Pasig City: Department of Education, 2017.

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