The document discusses consumer health and making wise decisions about health products and services. It defines a consumer health consumer as someone who builds knowledge to make informed choices that affect their health. Reliable sources of health information include professionals, educational institutions, and screened media sources. The role of a consumer health educator is to help consumers choose beneficial products and services by providing information and guiding them to reliable sources.

2. • Being a consumer involves building your consumer
knowledge on health, which can help you make wise
decisions when buying goods and services.

3. • It refers to the decisions you make about the purchase
and use of health information, products and services that
will have a direct effect on your health.

4. • These refer to the data and facts about health products
and services you can get from media and people
including professionals and agencies.

5. • These refer to substances, materials or equipments
prepared or manufactured for you to buy and use for the
maintenance of health and the treatment of diseases.
• Examples: eyeglasses, appliances, medicines, grooming aides,
etc.

6. • These refer to health information, actions, procedures or
work performed to help satisfy your needs and wants as
a consumer.
• Examples: medical and dental consultation and treatment,
services from beauty parlors and barber shops, etc.

7. • It is the process of assisting you to acquire the correct
information and understanding so that you will be able to
make a wise decision about a certain health item.

8. 1.) Judge which products and services will be beneficial,
harmful or useless.
2.) Know the local laws and regulations that protect
consumers.
3.) Locate dependable medical, dental and nursing
services.
4.) Apply knowledge acquired with respect to personal and
environmental health in the purchase of personal goods
and services.

9. 1.) Friends, neighbors, relatives – they are reliable sources
because the information they will give is true and who will
not let us buy products that may harm us.
2.) Professionals such as physicians, scientists, teachers –
they are reliable because their information will be based on
research and studies.
3.) Educational institutions – they are schools, colleges or
universities which will give us the right information.

10. • 4.) Media such as radio and television - their information
is screened first before they are aired so they cannot give
wrong information.
• 5.) Print materials such as magazines, journals,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, posters, etc. – their
information is screened and edited before they are
published.

11. 1.) Customs and superstitions
2.) Information based on ignorance and prejudice
3.) Commercialized health information

12. 1.) Assist consumers in choosing better health products
and services;
2.) Provide information regarding health products the
consumers wish to buy and the health services they wish to
avail of;
3.) Help consumers recognize reliable sources of health
information; and
4.) Guide consumers in buying health products and
services.

13. • Activity 1 Surveys Says !
a) What Should I do when my head and body ache ?
b) How many times should i take vitmanins and mineral
suplllement?
c) What is the best way to make my skin smooth ?
d). When is the best time to trim my fingernails?
e) What is the most effective way to lose weight?

14. • 1. Write a short reflection about activity 1
Possible points for reflection:
• 1. Where do you think did your classmate accquire thier
answer?
• 2. How well do you trust your classmates about health
concerns?