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Health
Quarter 3 – Module 8
Health Trends, Issues, and
Concerns (Global Level)

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About the Module________________________________
This module aims to help you to learn about different global health issues and the
initiatives made to help address this problem. Are you ready to learn? Go through
each lesson to become health-oriented and globally adept.
Lesson 4 – Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
Through this module, you will be able to:
1. Recommend ways of adopting global health initiatives to a local or national
context

What I Know
Directions: Read the following items carefully. Write only the letter of the best answer
in each item.
Note: Use separate sheets in answering this test.

1. Which of the following vaccine help reduce the number of deaths in children
aged 5 yrs. old and below EXCEPT?
A. Hepatitis B Vaccine C. Measles Vaccine
B. Influenza Vaccine D. Yellow Fever Vaccine
2. What are the biggest challenges in improving global vaccine coverage are?
A. limited resources C. poor management of health systems
B. competing health priorities D. All the Above
3. Which of the following is NOT a vaccine-preventable disease?
A. Hepatitis B C. Yellow Fever
B. Measles D. Asthma
4. What age bracket of children in Africa where they recorded the highest death
rate?
A. 5 years and below C. 15 years and below
B. 10 years and below D. 20 years and below
5. Which of these international organizations is the chief body responsible for
providing leadership on global health, setting norms and standards, and
providing health support to countries around the world?
A. World Bank
B. World Health Organization
C. International committee of Red Cross
D. United Nations Health and Life Insurance
6. Which disease mainly affects children under 5 and remains endemic in only 2
countries?
A. Tetanus B. Polio C. Measles D. Pneumonia
7. What do you think is the worst possible effect of a world without vaccines?
A. regular GCQ C. every day is a new normal
B. human extermination D. there will be pandemic from time to time

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 8. Who maintains the Twitter handle at vaccines?
A. UNICEF C. DOH
B. GAVI D. WHO
9. How global health initiatives give benefits to people’s health in the country?
A. By participating activities to worsen the health situations
B. By performing black propaganda in the country
C. By doing health prevention and control to decrease the cases of disease
D. None of these
10. Which of the following is a global strategy which aims to strengthen children’s
immunization programs and introduce a new generation of licensed vaccines
into use in developing countries?
A. UNICEF C. DOH
B. GAVI D. WHO
11. What age of the children reduce the number of deaths for the new vaccines?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
12. Who do you think are the stakeholders or partners of the government in
addressing the health problems?
A. by knowing different global trends and issues
B. by performing illegal actions in your community
C. by joining group of people campaign against government
D. by doing an active national and local campaigns to reduce violence
against women and children
13. Vaccine is an agent that somehow protects an individual in acquiring severe
effect of a certain disease, which of the following is NOT a vaccine-preventable
disease?
A. Asthma B. Hepatitis B C. Measles D. Yellow fever
14. How can you promote and maintain the adaptation of global health initiatives in
your own locality?
A. avoid using health-related programs.
B. promote advertisements online negatively.
C. ink with stakeholders for limited implementation.
D. Create community-based health related programs and activities.
15. Which of these will NOT help change people’s views and beliefs and trigger
actions to help millions lives?
A. conducting of seminars
B. emphasizing the side effects of vaccine
C. organizing a propaganda about vaccine
D. educating people on the benefits of vaccines

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 Lesson
Global Alliance for Vaccines
4
Week 5-8
and Immunizations

What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you will be able to:

1. recognize the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization;
2. Write a letter about the full and immediate implementation of health
initiatives; and
3. list down insights about the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

What’s In

Try completing this knowledge rating scale. This checklist will help you identify areas
from the previous topics where you feel that you still lack understanding. Put a check
(/) mark under the column of your answer.
Knowledge Rating Scale
Topics Know the topic well Know it a little No idea at all
1. Millennium Development
Goals
2. WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco
Control
3. Global Fight Against
Communicable Diseases

What’s New & What is It

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) is a global strategy which
aims to strengthen children’s immunization programs and introduce new generation of
licensed vaccines into use in developing countries across the globe. These new
vaccines which could help reduce the number of deaths in children aged 5 years old
and below includes:

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 • Hepatitis B Vaccine
• childhood meningitis vaccine
• Yellow fever vaccine
• Influenza vaccine
• vaccine for pneumonia

In 2014, an estimated 18.7 million infants worldwide were not

reached with routine immunization services such as the DTP3
vaccine. More than 60% of these children live in 10 countries: The
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq,
Nigeria and Pakistan, the Philippines, Uganda, and South Africa.

Polio mainly affects children under 5 years of age. Today, only 2 countries
(Afghanistan and Pakistan) remain polio-endemic, down from more than 125 in 1988.
ACTIVITY 3.1
The following are the new vaccines which could help reduce the number of deaths in
children aged 5 years old and below. On the right column, check for the appropriate
Vaccines that are suited for them.

Vaccines (✓)
vaccine for pneumonia
influenza vaccine
yellow fever vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine
Hepatitis A Vaccine

What’s More
PANDEMIC
1. Give your insights about the 2. What does it mean to self-
recent COVID-19 isolate?

3. What is your point of 4. first thing you did 5. Preparation on how to

view about the after the ECQ? prevent COVID-19
Enhanced
Community Quarantine?

6. As a student, what did you do to help/show

humanity in times of crisis like the
PANDEMIC?

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 What I Have Learned

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the necessary words to make the statement
correct. Choose your answers from the words given inside the box.

Globe deaths 5 years old

Immunization children’s immunization Hepatitis B Vaccine
childhood meningitis vaccine Influenza vaccine
Yellow fever vaccine Pneumonia Vaccine

The global alliance for vaccines and1. _____________is a global strategy which aims to
strengthen 2. ____________________ programs and introduce new generation of licensed
vaccines into use in developing countries across the 3. _____. These new vaccines
which could help reduce the number of 4. ______in children aged 5. _____________and
below includes: 6. ___________7. __________8. __________9. _________10. _____________.

What I Can Do
Directions: Write a letter addressed to the President of the Republic of the Philippines
on the implementation of vaccines. Give reasons why this health initiative should be
implemented and acted upon to ensure the health and wellness of Filipinos.
Note: Please follow this format below.

__________
Date

Dear President Duterte,

_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Respectfully yours,
______________
Name of student

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 Assessment
Directions: Read the following items carefully. Write the letter of the best answer in
each item.
1. Which disease mainly affects children under 5 and remains endemic in only 2
countries?
A. Tetanus B. Polio C. Measles D. Pneumonia
2. What do you think is the worst possible effect of a world without vaccines?
A. regular GCQ C. every day is a new normal
B. human extermination D. there will be pandemic from time to time
3. Who maintains the Twitter handle at vaccines?
A. UNICEF C. DOH
B. GAVI D. WHO
4. How global health initiatives give benefits to people’s health in the country?
A. by participating activities to worsen the health situations
B. by performing black propaganda in the country
C. by doing health prevention and control to decrease the cases of disease
D. None of these
5. Which of the following is a global strategy which aims to strengthen children’s
immunization programs and introduce a new generation of licensed vaccines
into use in developing countries?
A. UNICEF B. DOH C. GAVI D. WHO
6. Which of the following vaccine help reduce the number of deaths in children
aged 5 yrs. old and below EXCEPT?
A. Hepatitis B Vaccine C. Measles Vaccine
B. Influenza Vaccine D. Yellow Fever Vaccine
7. What are the biggest challenges in improving global vaccine coverage are?
A. limited resources C. poor management of health systems
B. competing health priorities D. All the Above
8. Which of the following is NOT a vaccine-preventable disease?
A. Hepatitis B C. Yellow Fever
B. Measles D. Asthma
9. What age bracket of children in Africa where they recorded the highest death
rate?
A. 5 years and below C. 15 years and below
B. 10 years and below D. 20 years and below
10. Which of these international organizations is the chief body responsible for
providing leadership on global health, setting norms and standards, and
providing health support to countries around the world?
A. World Bank
B. World Health Organization
C. International committee of Red Cross
D. United Nations Health and Life Insurance

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 11. What age of the children reduce the number of deaths for the new vaccines?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
12. Who do you think are the stakeholders or partners of the government in
addressing the health problems?
A. by knowing different global trends and issues
B. by performing illegal actions in your community
C. by joining group of people campaign against government
D. by doing an active national and local campaigns to reduce violence
against women and children
13. Vaccine is an agent that somehow protects an individual in acquiring severe
effect of a certain disease, which of the following is NOT a vaccine-preventable
disease?
A. Asthma B. Hepatitis B C. Measles D. Yellow fever
14. How can you promote and maintain the adaptation of global health initiatives in
your own locality?
A. avoid using health-related programs.
B. promote advertisements online negatively.
C. ink with stakeholders for limited implementation.
D. Create community-based health related programs and activities.
15. Which of these will NOT help change people’s views and beliefs and trigger
actions to help millions lives?
A. conducting of seminars
B. emphasizing the side effects of vaccine
C. organizing a propaganda about vaccine
D. educating people on the benefits of vaccines

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1. Immunization
2. Childreen’s Immunization
3. Globe
4. Deaths
5. 5 years old
6. Hepatitis Vaccine
7. Childhood meningitis vaccine
8. Yellow Fever Vaccine
9. Influenza Vaccine
10. Vaccine for Pneumonia
What I have learned
Answer key
 References

Books

Koplan JP, Bond TC, Merson MH, Reddy KS, Rodriguez MH, Sewankambo
NK, et al. towards a common definition of global health, Lancet 2009; 373
1993_5
Say L et al. Maternal mortality in 2005. World Health Organization and the
World Bank. Switzerland 2007.

Online References
Retrieve from: bacteria-and-virus-cartoon-vector-1637735
Retrieved on: March 8, 2021
Retrieve from: https://www.medindia.net/medical-quiz/quiz-on-vaccination.asp
Retrieved on: March 8, 2021
Retrieve from: https://www.who.int/campaigns/immunization-week/2016/quiz/en/
Retrieved on: March 8, 2021
Retrieve from: GAVI-The-Vaccine-Alliance
Retrieved on: March 8, 2021

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