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Learning Activity Sheet

Health 10
Quarter 3 - Weeks 1-3
Health Trends, Issues, and
Concerns (Global Level)
Health – Grade 10
Learning Activity Sheet
Health Trends, Issues, and Concerns (Global Level)
Quarter 3 - Weeks 1 - 3

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 I. What I Need to Know
Learning activity aims to help you learn about different global health issues.
Readings and activities are provided to improve your understanding of health concerns
and how these are treated or implemented around the world and locally.

You will also be assessed prior to answering the different activities and again at the
end of the activity, to check for knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills learned.

At the end of this Learning Activity Sheet, you are expected to:

1. discuss the significance of global health initiatives; H10HC-IIIa- week 1

2. describe how global health initiatives positively impact people’s health in various
countries; H10HC-IIIb-c- week 2
3. analyze issues in the implementation of global health initiatives. H10HC-IIIb-c-
week 3

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 II. What I know?
Activity 1: Word Hunt

Directions: Look for ten global health issues and concerns that the World Health Organization
and member-nations are facing. Write your answers in a separate sheet of paper.

M A L A R I A I D E N T

W A T E R S A F E T Y R

A Q S E S A E S I D N E

H T L A E H S N E M O W

M E N T A L H E A L T H

Z X C N M K I L O P O E

A S D P A O V T R D N U

E N V I R O N M E N T G
E R D N O I T I R T U N
E S T Y R R W E T Y B E
S T O W T O B A C C O D

Activity 2: Let’s Talk

Directions: Answer these questions below and share / discuss with your family.
Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

1. What are the current health issues and concerns in your community?
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 2. If you are a health worker in your community, what health issues and
concerns do you think should be addressed immediately? Why?
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3. What will the world be like if health issues and concerns are not properly
addressed by people around the world?
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III. What’s In?

Activity 3: Come On In
Directions: Read the statements about global health and choose the best answer by
writing the letter on the separate sheet of paper.
1. The international organization responsible for providing leadership on global
health, setting norms and standards and providing health support to
countries around the world.
a. International Committee of the Red Cross
b. United Nations Health and Life Insurance
c. World Bank
d. World Health Organization
2. The area in Asia recorded the highest death rate among children aged 5
years and below.
a. Africa
b. East Asia and Pacific
c. Latin America
d. South Asia

3. It is the leading cause of death among people who live in developing

countries.
a. heart diseases
b. HIV/AIDS
c. malaria
d. respiratory diseases
4. The region did new HIV infections occur among individuals living in low-and
middle-income countries.
a. East Asia
b. Sub-Saharan Africa
c. South Asia
d. Pacific Region

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 5. A life-style disease which is the top leading cause of death worldwide.
a. diabetes
b. heart disease
c. hypertension
d. stroke

IV. What’s New?

Global Health and the Millennium Development Goals

The term “global health” rose in popularity along with the rise of globalization. Both
terms improved public awareness of vulnerabilities and shared responsibilities among
people for the different injustices in the world.

According to Ilona Kickbush (2006), director of the Global Health Program at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland
states that global health pertains to various health issues, concerns, and trends which
go beyond national boundaries and call for global initiatives for the protection and
promotion of peoples’ health across the world.

Koplan and Associates (2009) states that global health is an area for study,
research and practice that prioritizes health improvement and achieving impartiality in
healthcare and wellness worldwide. Beaglehole and Bonita (2010) gave a short but
meaningful definition of global health: cooperative research and action of international
communities to promote health for all.

Millennium Development Goals

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight targets that all 191
UN Member States have agreed to achieve by 2015.
The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits
world leaders to fight discrimination against women and children, disease, hunger,
poverty, illiteracy, and environmental degradation. All of these goals cannot be
attained without addressing each and everyone. All of them influence, affect and
depend on better global health programs and policies.

1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. Global Partnership for Development

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 V. What is it?
Activity 4: The Philippine Scenario

Directions: Predict the global effects if the eight Millennium Development Goals
were achieved or not. Write your answer in the columns using a separate sheet of
paper.
Goal Millennium Development What if this goal is What if this goal is
No. Goals achieved? not achieved?

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Activity 5: The Philippine Goals

Directions: List goals that are are highly achievable and which are not, explain why
and share with your family. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

The Philippine Millennium Development Goals Scenario

Highly Achievable Goals Not Highly Achievable Goals

VI. What’s More?

Global Health Initiatives

One of the benefits of globalization to the world is the development and

improvement of various health initiatives initiated by different nations and governments
to address health issues and concerns. Global health initiatives are programs set in
motion by the United Nations through the World Health Organization and in
partnership with the World Bank which targets specific health problems including but
not limited to emerging and re-emerging diseases, climate change, environmental
sanitation, mental health, tobacco regulation, and alcohol use.

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Activity 6: Issues, Concerns, and Trends (ICT)

Directions: Put in each box the different health issues, concerns and trends
encountered around the world. Write your answer in a seperate sheet of paper.

Some of the global health initiatives spearheaded by the World Health

Organization include the following:

The Global Fight Against Communicable Diseases

1. Roll Back Malaria .

2. Stop TB.
3. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
4. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Global Prevention and Control of Tobacco and Alcohol Use

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the
prime international treaty negotiated under WHO. The WHO FCTC came into
existence in reaction to the global epidemic of tobacco use and abuse. It
reaffirms the right of every individual across the world to the highest standard
of health promoting public health and providing new legal means for global
health cooperation.

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 Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol.
The Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol recognizes the
close ties between the harmful use of alcohol and the socio-economic
development of a nation. Likewise, this strategy builds and supports other
global health initiatives like the global strategy for the prevention and control of
non-communicable diseases.
Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases.

The Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable

Diseases is a global action plan to prevent and control the following non-
communicable diseases: cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory
diseases, cancers, and diabetes and the four shared risk factors: unhealthy
eating, physical inactivity, tobacco use and alcohol use.

Global Initiative for Mental Health

The “Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020” is the result of

extensive research and consultations by stakeholders, member- nations,
academic and non-government centers across the globe. The mental health
action plan should be impartial, life-based, and preventive in nature. :

Global Health Issues and Concerns

Activity 7: The Present and The Future

Directions: Write these in the Present column the status of global health issues and
concerns and write your predictions in the Future column if it is properly addressed by
different nations. Use another sheet of paper for your answers.

Global Health Issues

Present Future
and Concerns

Communicable
Diseases

Tobacco and Alcohol

Use

Mental Health

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Activity 8: Prevention and Control

Directions: Answer the following questions in a separate sheet of paper.

1. How does the Philippine government address different local and national
health issues and concerns like HIV/AIDS cases and tobacco and alcohol
related diseases?
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2. Who do you think are the stakeholders or partners of the government in

addressing health problems? How can they help curb various health
problems?
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3. How can educating the youth help in developing a socially conscious and
healthy individuals who are aware of the various global health threats and
concerns?

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VII. What I Have Learned?

Activity 9: Am I Aware

Directions: Write a personal essay about the impact of the global health issues
and concerns to you as an adolescent? Use another sheet of paper for your essay.
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Activity 10: Different Locations
Directions: List of factors, influences and beliefs which impede the implementation
of health initiatives at the local and national level. How this factors can be managed.
Write your answers in a separate sheet of paper.

LOCAL REASON NATIONAL REASON

VIII. What can I do?

Activity 11: My Initiative (Self Reflection)
Directions: Imagine yourself as a member of a national or international organization
that wants to extend humanitarian initiatives to the different global trends in improving
healthcare such as fighting communicable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and
HIV/AIDS, preventing maternal deaths and other health issues and concerns.
Write your reflection in a separate sheet of paper.
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IX. Assessment
Directions: Read and answer the letter of your choice and write in a separate sheet
of paper.
1. Diverse health issues, concerns and trends which call for all nations to
address and act on to promote and protect the health of individuals and
groups across boundaries.
a. Global health
b. Health
c. Public health
d. Health education
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2. These are goals set by the United Nations for its member-nations to be
fulfilled on an agreed span of time to be evaluated and counter-checked
under world standards.
a. K-12 Development Goals
b. Millennium Development Goals
c. United Nations Development Goals
d. World Health Goals
3. What Millennium Development Goals greatly protect and care for women
and children’s health?
a. MDG No.1 and 2
b. MDG No. 3,4 and 5
c. MDG No. 7 and 8
d. MDG No. 1,6 and 7
4. The primary international body responsible for developing leadership in
health, setting norms and standards and providing health support among
nations around the world.
a. United Nations
b. International Red Cross
c. World Bank
d. World Health Organizations
5. A global health effort to control, prevent and eradicate the spreading of
mosquito-borne infections through development, preventive measures, and
effective treatment.
a. Destroy Mosquitoes Program
b. Roll Back Dengue
c. Roll Back Malaria
d. Stop Dengue and Malaria
6. A nationwide effort of the Department of Health to prevent and control the
spread of tuberculosis (TB).
a. Tuberculosis – Dangerous Occupational Therapy Short Course
Strategy
b. Tuberculosis – Directly observed Therapy Short Course Strategy
c. Tuberculosis – Direct Occupational Treatment System
d. Tuberculosis – Department of Tropical Treatment Service
7. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations aims to strengthen
children’s immunization programs especially in developing countries. Which
of the following vaccines is NOT part of the program?
a. HIV vaccine
b. Hepatitis vaccine
c. Influenza vaccine
d. Pneumonia vaccine
8. Which of these emerging communicable diseases greatly threaten
developing nations around the world especially in Africa?
a. HIV/AIDS
b. Influenza
c. Malaria
d. Tuberculosis

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9. Which of the following is NOT a provision of the World Health Organization
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
a. Decease in age limit to use tobacco products
b. Increase in price and ax measures of tobacco products
c. New packaging and labeling of tobacco products
d. Protection of the public from the dangers of tobacco smoke.
10. Under the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-
Communicable Diseases, which of the following is a shared risk factor for
developing chronic non – communicable diseases?
a. Immunizations and Vaccinations
b. Healthy Eating Habits
c. Prevention and Control
d. Physical Inactivity

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Activity 6: Issues, Concerns, and
Trends (ICT)
• drug use & abuse
Assessment: • tuberculosis
1. a. Global health • malaria
2. b. Millennium Development • alcohol & tobacco
Goals • immunization/vaccine
3. b. MDG No. 3,4 and 5 • non-communicable disease
4. d. World Health • communicable
Organizations • HIV/AIDS
5. c. Roll Back Malaria • climate change
6. b. Tuberculosis – Directly
observed Therapy Short Activity 5: The Philippine Goal
Course Strategy Answers may vary
7. a. HIV vaccine
8. a. HIV/AIDS
9. a. Decease in age limit to use Activity 4: THE Philippine
tobacco products Scenario
10. d. Physical Inactivity Answers may vary
Activity 11: My Initiative (Self
Reflection) Activity 3: Come On In
Answers may vary 1. d. World Health Organization
2. a. Africa
3. d. respiratory diseases
Activity 10: Different 4. b. Sub-Saharan Africa
Locations 5. b. heart disease
Answers may vary
Activity 2. Let’s Talk
Answers may vary
Activity 9: I am Aware
Answers may vary
Activity 8: Prevention and
Control
Answers may vary
Activity 7: The Present and
The Future
Answers may vary
Activity 1. Word Hunt
Answer Key