This document discusses health, health services, and consumer rights and responsibilities related to health. It defines health and describes different types of health services including medical services, traditional medicine, and faddism. It also discusses health consumerism, consumer rights to safety, information, choice, and redress. The document outlines both consumer rights and responsibilities, including the right to safety, information, choice, redress, and education as well as the responsibility to be informed, think independently, speak out, and respect the environment.

2. Health
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Health comes from the Old English word hale, meaning
"wholeness or well,". It comes from the Proto-IndoEuropean root kailo, meaning "whole,
uninjured". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic
root khalbas, meaning "something divided".
It is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a
living organism.
The state of being free from illness or injury.

3. PRODUCTS
AND HEALTH
SERVICES

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It has been proven that people often become victims of
products and health services due to ignorance of their
rights and privileges as consumers. They buy products or
services even if not needed.
is the process of educating the
consumers about the safety of the products they consume.
It is meant to inform them about their rights.
are manufactured equipment available for
one to buy for the maintenance of one's health and
treatment6 of diseases.
is a public service that is responsible for
providing medical care. It also refers to health information,
actions and procedures in order to satiafy the needs and
wants of the consumer.

5. WAYS OF LURING
CUSTOMERS
THROUGH
ADVERTISEMENTS

6. Testimonial Appeal, it is when the author uses
the stories of others to back up their own position.
Example:

7. Snob Appeal, this technique suggests that you can be
liked the expensively dressed, perfectly shaped people who
use this product.
Example:

8. Bandwagon Appeal, you are urged to do or
believe something because everyone else does.
Example:

9. False Image Appeal promises a better and more
successful in life for those who will use the products.
Example:

10. Humor Appeal are pictures, slogans, enjoyable
songs and jingles send out the message.
Example:

11. Reward Appeal is an advertising that uses prizes
and bonuses for product buyers.
Example:

12. Scientific Evidence Appeal is like an information
regarding the product is used in this kind of advertisement .
Example:

13. HEALTH
SERVICES

14. Medical Services
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Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other
physical and mental impairments in humans.
It is delivered by practitioners in medicine,
optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied
health, and other care providers.
It refers to the work done in providing primary care,
secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as
in public health.

15. Traditional Medicine
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Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous
or folk medicine) comprises knowledge systems that
developed over generations within various societies
before the era of modern medicine.

16. Faddism
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A nonmedical method of treating the sick. This
treatment makes use of unknown and nonscientific
diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

17. HEALTH
CONSUMERISM

18. Health consumerism
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A movement which advocates patients’ involvement
in their own health care decisions.
It tries to encourage health information
empowerment and the transfer of knowledge so
that patients can be informed and therefore more
involved in the decision-making process.
It also attempts to promote public understanding of
basic organ function, the processes of chronic
disease, and the beginnings of how to best prevent
these diseases.

19. Consumer Rights
Generally accepted basic consumer rights are
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(1) Right to safety: protection from hazardous goods.
(2) Right to be informed: availability of information required for
weighing alternatives, and protection from false and
misleading claims in advertising and labeling practices.
(3) Right to choose: availability of competing goods and
services that offer alternatives in terms of price, quality, service.
(4) Right to be heard: assurance that government will take full
cognizance of the concerns of consumers, and will act with sympathy
and dispatch through statues and simple and
expeditious administrative procedures.

20. RESPONSIBILITIES
AND RIGHTS OF
EVERY CONSUMER

21. Rights
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The Right to Safety and protection from hazardous goods or services.
The Right to be Informed and protected against fraudulent, deceitful or
misleading information and to have access to accurate information and facts
needed to make informed choices and decisions.
The Right to Choose and have access to a variety of products and services at
fair and competitive prices.
The Right to be Heard and to express and represent consumer interests in the
making of economic and political decisions.
The Right to Redress and to be compensated for misrepresentation, shoddy
goods or unsatisfactory services.
The Right to Consumer Education and to become a skilled and informed
consumer capable of functioning effectively in the marketplace.
The Right to a Healthy Environment that will enhance the quality of life and
provide protection from environmental problems for present and future
generations.

22. RESPONSIBILITIES
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The Responsibility to be aware of the quality and safety of goods and
services before purchasing.
The Responsibility to gather all the information and facts available about a
product or service as well as to keep abreast of changes and innovations in
the marketplace.
The Responsibility to Think Independently and make choices about well
considered needs and wants.
The Responsibility to Speak Out, to inform manufacturers and governments
of needs and wants.
The Responsibility to Complain and inform business and other consumers of
dissatisfaction with a product or service in a fair and honest manner.
The Responsibility to be an Ethical Consumer and to be fair by not
engaging in dishonest practices which cost all consumers money.
The Responsibility to Respect the Environment and avoid waste, littering
and contribution to pollution.