Community

Health
Problems

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 Preliminary Activity
CODE-DECODE

Mother Earth has given you a piece of paper with a code written on it. You are curious about it!
She said: “It is the gift of rhyme that I can share with you.”
You need to break the code to reveal these wise words.

OGD AGVE THE ROWLD

MY ONS EB A RRIOWAR OF CGHAEN
ESPEAL HELP ASVE RUO HOME

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Community and
Environmental
Health Problems.

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 Community health problems are common nowadays
with the rise in modern technology; people neglect the
importance of the basic need for safety. A safe
environment will ensure quality of life that will lead to
more productive citizen of the country.

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Environmental Issues are major concerns that
happen in the environment. Most of these
happened because of human activities on the
biophysical environment which has harmful
effects to human effects to human who are living
on it.
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MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

1. Climate Change – the global warming that has

been going on for the past 50 years due to human
activities.

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MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

2. Pollution – the presence of harmful

substances in the environment.

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MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

3. Environmental Degradation
– deterioration of the environment through
depletion of resources.

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MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

4. Resource depletion
– is the consumption of resource faster than it can
be replenished.

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MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

5. Deforestation
– is the permanent removal of trees to make room
for something besides forest.

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 OTHER
ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES

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1. Flash floods

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2. Soil Erosion

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3. Coral Reef Destruction

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Sources of Different Waste Materials that
create
Perennial Community Health Problem

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 GARBAGE

COMPOSITION SOURCES

Waste from preparation, cooking and Households, restaurant,

serving of food, market wastes, institutions, stores and
wastes from handling, storage and market
sale of produce.

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 RUBBISH

COMPOSITION SOURCES
Combustible: paper, Same as
garbage cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree
branches, yard trimmings, wood furniture, Households, restaurant,
bedding, dunnage institutions, stores and
market
Non-combustible: metals, tin cans,
metal furniture, dirt, glass, crockery, minerals

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 ASHES

COMPOSITION SOURCES

Residue from fires used for cooking and

Households, restaurant,
heating and from on-site incineration
institutions, stores and
market

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 STREET
REFUSE
COMPOSITION SOURCES

Sweepings, dirt, leaves, catch-basin Streets,

dirt, contents of litter receptacles sidewalks, alleys,
vacant lots

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 DEAD
ANIMALS
COMPOSITION SOURCES

Cats, dogs, horses, cows Streets,

sidewalks, alleys,
vacant lots

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ABANDONED
VEHICLES
COMPOSITION SOURCES

Unwanted cars and trucks left on Streets,

public property sidewalks, alleys,
vacant lots

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INDUSTRIAL
WASTES
COMPOSITION SOURCES

Food-processing wastes, lumber scraps, Factories, power

metal scraps, shavings plants

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DEMOLITION
WASTES
COMPOSITION SOURCES

Lumber, pipes, bricks, masonry, Demolition sites to be used for new

and other construction materials from buildings, renewal
razed buildings and other structures projects, expressways

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CONSTRUCTION
WASTES

COMPOSITION SOURCES

Scrap lumber, pipes, other Demolition sites to be used for new

Construction materials buildings, renewal
projects, expressways

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 SPECIAL
WASTES

COMPOSITION SOURCES

Hazardous solids and liquids: Household, hotels, hospitals,

explosives, pathological wastes, radioactive institutions, stores, industry
materials, batteries

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Sewage Treatment
Residue

COMPOSITION SOURCES

Solids from coarse screening and from grit Sewage treatment plants, septic
chambers; septic-tank sludge tanks

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SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT

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Waste Disposal is the proper disposal of a discarded or
discharged material in accordance with local environmental
guidelines or laws.

Solid Waste Management refers to the discipline associated

with the:
● control of generation
● storage collection
● transfer and transport
● processing
● disposal of solid waste

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 According to RA No. 9003, there are many ways to do Solid Waste Management.
A highly recommended formula is to adopt the 3Rs of Ecological Waste
Management:

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

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In addition, let us refrain from doing what has been prohibited under the law.
These include:

Littering, Open burning of Allowing the Squatting in open Open dumping or

throwing, solid waste. collection of non- dumps and burying of
dumping of waste segregated or landfills. biodegradable and
materials in unsorted waste. nonbiodegradable
public places like materials in flood-
roads, sidewalks, prone areas
canals, esteros,
parks and
establishments

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 EVALUATION
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if not.
1. There are factors that affects the occurrence of perennial community health
problems like, economy, politics, geography, culture and social content.
2. Littering, throwing, dumping of waste materials in public places is allowed by law.
3. Improper waste segregation could not affect the environment and community’s
health.
4. REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, is a recommended formula in Solid Waste
Management.
5. Open burning waste is prohibited by law.

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