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Consumer Health

Education
Objectives
• Differentiate reliable from unreliable health
information, products and services.

• 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.

• Select health professionals, specialists and health care


services wisely.
Group Activity

Discuss the following:

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

 promptness and  diversity


kindness
Criteria for selection
and Evaluation:

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

 is recommending or praising something that


calls forth the attention of the public

 for consumers to be aware of different


kinds of new products and services
Health Services
Providers
 Health Facilities

 Health Care Plans


Health Care Facilities
1. Primary
 first line of contact between people and higher
levels of health facility (e.g. barangay health
stations and rural health units)

2. Secondary
 consists of district health care institutions
(50-100 bed capacities)
Health Care Facilities

3. Tertiary

 specialized health care facility that can provide


medical care to cases requiring diagnostic,
therapeutic, and state-of-the-art equipment and
has a bed capacity of 100 and above
Health Cares
Reflect:

What if there are no:

1.Health Facilities?

2.Health Care Plans?


“ BUY LESS,
CHOOSE WELL.”
Vivienne Westwood
References:

Concha, Argie A. MAPEH 10: Music, Art, P.E. and Health. Phoenix Publishing
House Inc. 2017

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