HEALTH-Q4-W4 D1- Health Consumer Products and Services

Health Consumer

1. YOU AS A HEALTH CONSUMER

2. At the end of this lesson, you should be able to explain the importance of consumer health. Lesson Objective

3. How do we keep our surrounding clean and away from pests and rodents? Review

4. Who among you have a business? How do you treat your customers? Is it important to treat them well? Why? Motivation

5. Arrange the jumbled letters to identify the term referred to by each statement. Write your answer in your answer sheet.

6. Someone who purchases products, services, and information. E M O R N C U S

7. 2. Someone who applies correct decision-making skills, possesses the right attitudes, and practices appropriate procedures in choosing and purchasing health information, products, and services. E I W S M R O E C U N S

8. 3. It refers to the well-being of individuals purchasing health products and services. S E U C O M N R T E A H L H

9. 4. A person who purchases health products, avails of health services, and uses data and information about health products and services. A H T L H E N O S R E U M C

10. 1. What the different words implied? 2. What is customer? 3. Why do you think we need to take care of our health?

11. A consumer is someone who purchases products, services, and information. Every human being is a health consumer. We purchase products for health nutrition, for personal care and wellness, and for sanitation and protection. We also avail of health services from medical professionals.

12. In this age of digital technology, more people have easy and fast access to health information using computers. Health products and services can be purchased online.

13. Since these are not regulated, some health information, products, and services advertised, promoted, and sold online may cause more harm than good. Online merchants may not be able to deliver all the health benefits promised, or worse, may put people’s lives in jeopardy.

14. Consumer Health refers to the well-being of individuals purchasing health products and services. It is an indication of one’s ability to make important decisions in the purchase of health products, and the use of health information, and services. It involves wise decision-making skills and right attitudes to protect oneself from fraudulent health products, information, and services.

15. Health Consumer a person who purchases health products, avails of health services, and uses data and information about health products and services. Any person who inquires, buys, and receives health information, products, and services is a health consumer.

16. Wise Consumer someone who applies correct decision-making skills, possesses the right attitudes, and practices appropriate procedures in choosing and purchasing health information, products, and services.

17. As a wise consumer, you can benefit in many ways. Below are some of the benefits of being one: 1. Lessens the risks of harm and danger to one’s health and body. 2. Saves money. 3. Promotes Wellness. 4. Knows his or her rights and responsibilities.

18. The following are your basic rights: 3. The right to safety. 4. The right to choose. 6. The right to redress. 5. The right to representation. 7. The right to consumer education. 8. The right to a healthy environment. 2. The right to be informed. 1. The right to basic needs.

19. Application Read the statements below. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if not. Write your answers in your answer sheet.

20. __________ 1. It is necessary to evaluate and carefully check if the information is true and correct. __________ 2. All of us is a health consumer. __________ 3. If you are a wise consumer, you may not know what to do in case your rights are violated.

21. __________ 4. Medical professionals will not help us in choosing the right health products. __________ 5. Being a wise consumer may lead you to spend more money in purchasing health products.

22. What is Consumer Health? Why is it important? Generalization

23. Evaluation: Read the following statements carefully. Then, choose the correct answer and write it on your answer sheet.

24. 1. The following are the benefits of a wise consumer, EXCEPT; A. Knows his and her rights and responsibilities. B. Saves money. C. Rights to choose.  

25. 2. Every consumer has the right to live and work in an environment that is neither threatening nor dangerous and permits a life of dignity and well-being. It is the right to ___________________. A. representation B. consumer education C. basic needs

26. 3. The right to choose is ________________. A. selecting from a wide variety of health products and services offered B. receiving factual information based on scientific and medical findings C. expressing consumer interests in the formulation and execution

27. 4. Any person who inquires, buys, and receives health information, products, and services is a _____________________. A. wise Consumer B. health Consumer C. rightful Consumer

28. 5. The consumer has the right to demand compensation for misinterpretation and sub-standard and unsatisfactory products and services. A. The right to representation. B. The right to a healthy environment. C. The right to redress.

29. ASSIGNMENT Make a poster about the importance of consumer health. You may use any coloring materials available. Do your poster on a short bond paper. You will be rated using the rubric below.