HEALTH

Importance
of
Consumer Health
Prepared by:

HERMEL ALARDE CABATO

 Review of
the Past Lesson
Important necessities to
maintain healthy
environment
1.Clean water
2.Clean air
3.Control of noise pollution
4.Control of pests and
rodents
Motivation
Sing and Dance
Exercise
Song
Presentation
Consumer is the
one who selects,
buys and uses
products found in
the market for
personal needs and
wants.
 2 Types of
Consumer
1.Consumer product
2.Consumer service
 Consumer product is a person who buys
basic needs and personal wants such as
food, utensils, furniture, cleaning materials
etc.
Consumer product
is a person who buys
basic needs and
personal wants such
as food, utensils,
furniture, cleaning
materials etc.
Consumer services
that are sold to
individuals. Services
are goods that derive
much of their value
from intangible
elements that can’t
be touched such as an
experience, outcome
or process.
Consumer Health Education
Consumer health
education helps you
to choose consumer
goods and services in
the proper way, it
protects the public
against the risk of
injury associated with
consumer products.
3 things to make the consumer aware
about the right and responsibilities
to consumer education
1. Wise and
informed
decision in
purchasing
products or
availing
services.
2. Protection
from fraud
and
malpractice.
3. Ability to
differentiate
valid health
information
from myths and
misconceptions.
Generalization
Consumer – is the one who selects,
buys, and uses products found in the
market for personal needs and wants.
Consumer products – are the ones
sold in the department stores, markets
ranging from the clothes to wear, the
foods that you eat and the medicine
that you take.
Consumer services – are provided
by the medical practitioners such as
doctors, dentists and other health
professionals.
Consumer health education – helps
you to choose consumer goods and
services in the proper way.
Consumer rights laws – also protect
the public from false and misleading
advertising.
Health education – an effective tool
that helps improve health in
developing nations.
Three (3) things to make consumers
aware about the rights and
responsibilities to consumer education:
* Wise and informed decision in
purchasing products or availing services
* Protection from fraud and malpractice
*Ability to differentiate valid health
information from myths and
misconceptions
Application
Sandra is a music fanatic. She spends a
large amount of her money buying CDs
of her favorite music. One day, she sees
a sale advertisement in a department
store. It will be a long week sale. She is
thinking of saving her daily allowance
so that she could buy her favorite CDs.
One day of the sale, she was able to
buy 5 CDs of her favorite singer for
only 250 pesos.