For teaching grade 6

1. IMPORTANCE OF
CONSUMER HEALTH
HEALTH 6
QUARTER 4

2. Classroom Rules

3. Learning Competencies:
Explains the importance of
consumer health.
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4. Review:
What makes you think that
a person is healthy?
If suddenly you felt sick, what
will you do?
Where should you go?

5. Let us read the following words.
ENGLISH - FILIPINO - MTB
consumer - mamimili - mamalitay
Food - pagkain - pagkaon
Health - kalusugan - kahimsog
Buy - bili - palit

6. Services - serbisyo - serbisyo
Rights - karapatan - katungod
Needs - pangangailangan -panginahanglan
Quality -katangian - kalidad

7. Unlocking:
• It refers to someone who
buys food, clothes and
products.
welfare• The state of doing well especially in respect
to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or
prosperity.
consumer

8. Tell what the teacher is acting out.
strong
toothache
eating

9. Guessing Game:
Look at the picture.
Identify what each picture shows.
(health products, health information and health services)

11. In our EPP lesson, we learned that in buying
products we should always check the __________ to
ensure that the food is safe to eat.

14. Do you go to the grocery or market?
How do you decide when choosing a
product?
Why?

15. Let us decide and choose the best
options: Ex. situation:
1. When diarrhea attacks to our little
sister or brother…
b. buy the prescribed medicine
a. boil guava leaves or ABC to make juice

16. 2. Your older sister asked you to buy a
whitening soap…
a. buy the soap advertised in the television
and recommended by doctors
b. buy a cheaper soap from the sidewalk

19. • is a person who purchases goods
or services for his/her personal
use and not for manufacture or
resale.
Discussion:
Consumers

20. - is a condition of welfare enjoyed by
people who buy products and use
services that research believes to be
safe.
Consumer Health:

21. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF
CONSUMER HEALTH?
1. Health information
2. Health products
3. Health services

22. What are the sources of health
information?
drawn from health professionals,
educators, scientists and the
public.
Consumer health tools are the

23. What are the health products
commonly used by consumers?
Food- any substance consumed
to provide nutritional support
for the body
-plant or animal origin

24. FOOD

25. Medicines- any
substance/s used in
treating disease, injury,
or illness; medicament;
remedy

26. MEDICINES

27. What are the health services
enjoyed by the consumers?
 Carried out by health
professionals

28. Dentist – dental surgeon
- who specializes in the
diagnosis, prevention and
treatment of diseases and
conditions of the oral
cavity.

29.  Nurse – who receive special
additional training to perform
physical examinations, make
diagnoses, and prescribe
treatment, often under the
supervision of a physician.

30. Government agencies
provide health services
for the consumers?

31. 1. Department of
Health (DOH)
2. Philippine Health
Insurance
Company (PHIC)

32. 3. Department of
Social Work and
Development
DSWD

33. Wise consumers are knowledgeable about
his or her rights and responsibilities.
Consumer Rights
1. the right to basic needs
2. the right to safety
3. the right to information

34. 4. the right to choose
5. the right to representation
6. the right to redress or remedy
7. the right to consumer education
8. the right to a healthy environment

35. Consumer Responsibilities
1. use products and services for their intention
2. choose products and services that are affordable
and of good quality
3. report or notify to the concerned agency any case
of fraud (scam or deception) for products or
services that do not meet expectations

36. Importance of Consumer Health
It makes people aware of the quality of goods that
they purchase.
It helps people to take right service on right time.
It gives the knowledge of the existing laws
and protection of their consumer rights.
It helps to encourage consumer to be united and
raise collective voice against the practice of
adulteration and quackery.

37. Rules in Groupings
1. I will group you into two.
2. Each group will answer different activity.
3. Don’t be shy in showing what you have learned.
Share it to the class.
4. Your questions are welcome.
5. Finish the activity with in 5 mins.

38. Group 1: Consumer rights or responsibilities?

40. Group 2: Health Service or Health product?

43. This morning, Susan and her mother go to the
market. She noticed that her mother chooses
vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish and other sea
foods. Before buying those foods, she really
chooses the cheaper one and she also sees to it
the freshness of those foods. Susan’s mother able
to pay 1,200 pesos in 4 different products she
bought.

44. 1. What are the food bought by Susan’s
mother?
2. How do you describe this foods?
3. Why did Susan’s mother buy those foods?
4. Susan’s mother able to pay 1,200 pesos in
4 products she bought.If you divide it equally
into 4, how much did Susan’s mother paid in each
product? What operation are we going to use?

45. Who are the consumers?
Is it important to know our rights as a consumer?
Why?

46. Consumer - is a person who purchases goods or
services for his/her personal use.
Wise consumers are knowledgeable about his or her
rights and responsibilities.
1. the right to basic needs
2. the right to safety
3. the right to information
4. the right to choose
5. the right to representation
6. the right to redress or remedy
7. the right to consumer education
8. the right to a healthy environment

47. True or False.
__1. Consumer health refers to decisions made on products and
services purchased or used that will have effect on our health.
__2. Health care is the data and facts gathered from media,
professionals and other agencies.
__3. Health products are manufactured to treat diseases.
__4. Health information are actions supplied to satisfy the needs of
consumers.
__5. We can decide on the product to use according to our rights.

48. Bring labels of any medicinal products for our
next meeting.

49. Thank you!