This document defines key concepts related to community and environmental health. It explains how a healthy environment can positively impact people's health by reducing disease and healthcare costs. It also identifies different primary healthcare programs in communities, such as maternal health care, child health care, nutrition programs, and programs to control communicable and non-communicable diseases. The document outlines characteristics of a healthy community and lists functions of various primary healthcare services available in communities.

1. Objectives:
•Defines community and environmental health
•Explains how a healthy environment positively
impact the health of people and communities
(less disease, less health care cost, etc.)
•Identify different health care programs in the
community

2. DURING THE PANDEMIC

3. What is the
importance of health?
What is health?
is a state of
complete
physical, mental,
and social well-
being and not
just the absence
of disease
Health is the
center of human
happiness and
well-being, the
better health we
have, the more
productive we
can be

4. After the pandemic?

5. Community
is a group of people living in the
same environment. It includes
the individual and the family.

6. Community Health
is a medical practice of taking care
of the health of all the members of
the community through an
organized and sustained
community efforts.

7. Environmental Health
it comprises those aspects of
human health that can be
identified thru physical,
chemical, biological social and
psychosocial factors within the
surrounding environment.

8. Characteristics of a healthy
community:
•A clean and safe physical environment
•An environment that meets everyone’s basic
needs
•An environment that promotes social harmony
and actively involves everyone
•An understanding of local health and
environmental issues

10. Characteristics of a healthy
community:
•A community that participates in identifying local
solutions to local problems
•A community whose members have access to varied
experiences, means of interaction and
communication
•Accessible and appropriate health services
and facilities

14. Characteristics of a healthy
community:
•The promotion and celebration of
historical and cultural heritage
•A diverse and innovative economy
•A sustainable use of all available
resources for all

15. Primary Health Care Programs in the
Community
Health Care Services Functions
Maternal Health Care
Child health care
Nutrition program
Population and Family planning program
Control of communicable diseases
Environmental sanitation program
Control on non-communicable diseases
Pre-natal, Natal, Post-natal
Immunizations, control of diarrheal
disease
Operation timbang, food
supplementation
Free family planning
Tuberculosis control program
Inspection of food establishments
Blood pressure screening

16. Health Care Services Functions
Primary Health Care Programs in
the Community
Dental health program
Reproductive health care
Medical morbidity clinic
National voluntary blood services
Epidemiology and surveillance
program
Disaster management
preparedness program
Mental hygiene
Pharmacy services
Tooth extraction
Counselling on family planning and RH
Provision of free medicines
Blood-letting activities at barangay level
Controlling outbreaks like dengue
Medical services/assistance during
disaster
Adolescent counselling centers
Distribution of medicines to all health
centers

17. Are these primary
health care
services present
in your
community?

19. Refuse are the dump,
food waste or
discarded materials

20. KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES
Garbage
Waste form preparation, cooking
and serving, market wastes,
wastes from product handling,
sale, and storage
Households,
restaurants,
institutions, business
and markets are just
few examples.
Rubbish
combustible: tree branches, yard
trimmings, beddings, wood furniture,
bedding, dunnage, paper, cartons,
boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior
non-combustible: metal furniture,
dirt, glass, crockery, minerals, metals,
tin cans
Households,
restaurants,
establishments,
shops, and
marketplaces

21. KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES
Ashes
waste from cooking and
heating fires, as well as on-site
incineration
Households,
restaurants,
institutions,
businesses, and
markets
Street
refuse
sweepings, dirt, leaves, dirt in
catch basins, trash receptacle
contents
alleys, vacant lots,
streets, sidewalks

22. KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES
Dead animals
horses, cows, cats, dogs
etc.
alleys, vacant lots,
streets, sidewalks
Abandoned
vehicles
Unwanted automobiles
and trucks have been
parked on public property.
alleys, vacant lots,
streets, sidewalks
Industrial
waste
Food trash, cinders from
boilers, timber scraps,
metal scraps, and shavings
Factories or power
plants

23. KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES
Demolition
wastes
demolished houses and other
structures: lumber, pipe, bricks,
masonry, and other
construction materials
Demolition sites
will be used for
new construction,
renovation
projects, and
expressways.
Construction
wastes
construction materials, scrap
lumber, pipes
New construction,
remodeling

24. KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES
Special
wastes
solids and liquids that are
hazardous: explosives,
pathological wastes, radioactive
materials batteries
institutions,
stores, industry,
household,
hotels, hospitals
Sewage
treatment
residue
septic-tank sludge; sediments
from coarse screening and grit
chambers
septic tanks,
sewage
treatment
plants

25. Solid waste management can be done in a variety of
methods, according to R.A. No. 9003. Adopting the 3Rs of
Ecological Waste Management: REDUCE, REUSE, AND
RECYCLE is a highly recommended strategy.

26. Activity A. Matching Type
Directions: Read the
items carefully. Match
Column A to their
corresponding functions
in Column B. Copy and
answer the Table on a
sheet of paper.

27. Column A
Health Care Services
Column B
Functions
1. Maternal Health Care
2. Child health care
3. Nutrition program
4. Population and Family planning program
5. Control of communicable diseases
6. Environmental sanitation program
7. Control on non-communicable diseases
8. Dental health program
9. Reproductive health care
10. Medical morbidity clinic
A. Tuberculosis control program
B. Tooth extraction
C. Provision of free medicines
D. Free family planning
E. Pre-natal, Natal, Post-natal
F. Blood pressure screening
G. Inspection of food establishments
H. Immunizations, control of diarrheal disease
I. Counselling on family planning and RH
J. Operation timbang, food supplementation

28. Activity B: Complete the Table
Directions: Complete the table by giving the examples of different kinds of refuse.
Copy and write your answers on a sheet of paper.
Left overs Empty bottles Dead dog
Residue from fires Metal scraps Cigarette butts
Demolition debris Unwanted cars Dead batteries
Construction
materials
Kinds of Refuse Examples
1. Garbage
2. Dead animals
3. Street sweepings
4. Special wastes
5. Demolition materials
6. Rubbish
7. Sewage treatment
residue
8. Business Waste
9. Abandoned
automobile
10. Incinerator residue
Left overs
Dead dog
Dead batteries
Demolition debris
BONUS
Cigarette butts
Unwanted cars
Residue from fires
Empty bottles
Construction Materials

29. Activity C:
Reflection
Directions: After studying the contents of this module,
complete the sentences below with what you believe is your
most important lesson and realization. Copy and write your
answers on a sheet of paper.
A healthy environment positively impact the health of
people and community because
___________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________.

30. Checking your understanding
Let us now check if you really
understood our lesson. Answer the
following questions below.
1. How important it is for a community to
have a primary health care services?
2. How is it important for us to take care
of our community?

31. What are the effects of
community problems on
people’s health?

32. Questions?
Thank you and
goodbye