Consumer Health Education
Consumer Health Education
Consumer Health Education
Education
Objectives
• Differentiate reliable from unreliable health
information, products and services.
1. Consumer Health
2. Health Consumer
3. Health Information
4. Health Products
5. Health Services
6. How to be a wise consumer
? Wise
Consumer
Consumer
Health?
Consumer Health
Facts Understanding
wise choices
consume
products/resources
buy Health
avail
products/resources Consumer
services
examine
products, services, health information
Health Information
seen
Human
read Community
heard
Health Products
food
medicines
medical equipment
Health Services
activities
furnished
information /supplied
work
Health Services
Criteria for evaluation:
location access
effectiveness price
Read
Compare
Inquire
Selection and Evaluation of
Health Information, Products and
Services
1. Reading the package label
name of the product
kind of health product misleading
quantity or amount
ingredients/composition
direction of use
precautions before use
price
Selection and Evaluation of
Health Information, Products and
Services
2. Advertising
2. Secondary
consists of district health care institutions
(50-100 bed capacities)
Health Care Facilities
3. Tertiary
1.Health Facilities?
Concha, Argie A. MAPEH 10: Music, Art, P.E. and Health. Phoenix Publishing
House Inc. 2017