This document discusses quackery, which is the promotion or sale of health products and services that have not been proven safe or effective. Quackery is a form of health fraud. There are three major characteristics of health quackery: 1) it is a big business, 2) it spreads quickly, and 3) it preys on people with illnesses that have no known cure. The document outlines three forms of quackery: medical quackery involving drugless or bloodless cures, nutrition quackery promoting unproven food fads, and device quackery using miraculous gadgets to treat health conditions. People are advised to avoid quackery and consider if claims have been scientifically proven.

1. CONSUMER
HEALTH
HEALTH 10 – First Quarter
Lesson 3: QUACKERY

2. PICTURE PARADE:
1. Study the picture and give/ share your
insights/opinion about the advertisement.

4. What is being sold by the poster?

5. What does it guarantee?

6. Do these products come from reliable or
unreliable materials? Why or why not?

7. Will you buy it? Why or why not?

8. VIDEO
PRESENTATION

9. QUACKERY: An awareness/advocacy
video

10. WHAT IS
QUACKERY?

11. QUACKERY, a form of a health
FRAUD, is any advertisement,
promotion, or sale of products and
services that have NOT BEEN
SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN SAFE
and EFFECTIVE (Meeks, et al,
2011).

12. QUACK
⁃ individual that has little or no
professional qualifications to practice
medicine
⁃ pretentiously uses meaningless medical
jargon and relies on scare tactics,
paranoid accusations, and quick fixes

13. 1. It is a big business.
2. It multiplies and spreads fast.
3. It thrives on individuals who are
diagnosed with illnesses that are
known to have no cure.
THREE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS
OF HEALTH QUACKERY

14. THREE FORMS OF
QUACKERY

15. 1. MEDICAL QUACKERY

16. 1. MEDICAL QUACKERY
⁃ includes cures, treatments, and
remedies of various health
conditions that are DRUGLESS
or BLOODLESS in nature

17. 2. NUTRITION QUACKERY

18. 2. NUTRITION QUACKERY
⁃ involves promotion of food fads
and other nutritional practices
that claim to be ALL-
NATURAL

19. 3. DEVICE QUACKERY

20. 3. DEVICE QUACKERY
⁃ makes use of MIRACULOUS
GADGETS (such as dials,
gauges, electrodes, magnets, and
blinkers) that are believed to
cure certain health conditions

21. How can you avoid the
danger of quackery?
APPLICATION

22. • What are the characteristics of
different forms of quackery?
• Why is Quackery considered
fraud?
GENERALIZATION

23. Think of a certain quackery which
is commonly used by the people in
your community, then write an
essay about the dangers and the
kind of quackery which you see in
your community.
EVALUATION

24. • The essay should discuss and
explain the NATURE and
DANGER OF THE
QUACKERY.
CRITERIA:

25. • The essay should present ONE
CERTAIN QUACKERY which
was widely used by the
community.
CRITERIA:

26. • The essay should present the
SOURCE OF THE QUACKERY
and the SOLUTION in able for the
quackery stop.
CRITERIA: