Module 9 Ucsp

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
Governor Pack Road, Baguio City, Philippines 2600

Tel. Nos.: (+6374) 442-3316, 442-8220; 444-2786;
442-2564; 442-8219; 442-8256; Fax No.: 442-6268 Grade Level/Section:
Email: [email protected]; Website: www.uc-bcf.edu.ph
MODULE 9 – UCSP Subject Teacher: Kimberson P. Alacyang
Education and Health as Social Institutions

Learning Objectives
1. Differentiate functions of education as it affects the lives of the people in the society;
2. Differentiate the perspectives in understanding the concept of health.
Discussion
Education
➔ The school is one of the universal symbols for education. It is a place where learners of varied
ages, backgrounds and needs are brought together to learn.
➔ Education is a process of acquiring and equipping people with knowledge and skills and
values that will allow him or her to actively participate in varied social tasks and activities.
➔ Education is also a systematic process of transmitting knowledge and skills that are necessary
in the performance of one’s roles in the society.
➔ Education can be formal, informal and non-formal.
Formal Education is:

Informal Education is: Non-formal Education is:
a. An institutional
a. Life-long process a. Flexible
activity
b. Individual learns from daily b. Life, environment and
b. Chronologically experiences learner-oriented
graded structure c. Individual learns from c. Diversified in content and
c. Uniform exposure to the environment method
d. Subject-oriented at home, at work, at play, d. Built on learner
e. Full time etc. participation
f. Leads to e. Mobilizes local resources
certificates, f. Enriches human and
diplomas, degrees environmental potential
Health and its Determinants (as defined by World Health Organization /WHO)
Health According to World Health Organization:
it refers to a state of complete physical, intellectual, emotional, behavioral, social and spiritual
well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
❖ Lifestyles – is define as the living/behavioral pattern of a person or a group according to its

interest, activities, attitudes, values and principles.
❖ Environmental Factors – refers to one’s belief system about health within the context of culture
and not necessarily biological/medical in nature.
❖ Biomedical Factors – pertains to one’s concept about physical health with the person or group
relies on the evidence of establish science.
Different practices and behavior of individuals/groups

in the Filipino context of environmental factor/cultural factors
➢ Bughat/Binat - is a Filipino belief about one’s illness that it will take relapse from previous
condition due to the failure of total rest; even taking a bath, doing household chores are even
prohibited.
➢ Buyag/Usog - is an illness which is largely due to the indignant misdemeanor of the person
towards animistic/supernatural elements.
➢ Amok – a mental related illness which attributed to the person being possessed by evil spirits.
➢ Kulam/Barang - an illness inflicted to one unsuspecting individual due to one’s sins through
voodoo or witchcraft.
➢ Lihi - a belief system among Filipino that one’s health can be vigorously attributed to the
providence of supernatural power.
Tel. Nos.: (+6374) 442-3316, 442-8220; 444-2786;
➢ Pasma - a belief system of Filipino illness due to the strong presence of contaminated air or water
ascribed to by evil spirits.
Systems of Diagnosis, Prevention and Healing

 Western Medicine – refers to a system of diagnosis in which the medical doctors or other
healthcare professionals treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation or surgery.
 Oriental Medicine – A system of diagnosis and treatment by relying on the herbal and other
plants (at times are animal parts) which the liquid matter usually extracted from for healing.
 Traditional and Alternative Medicine – Alternative medicine includes the more mainstream and
accepted forms of therapy, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and Oriental practices while
the traditional medicine is the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the
theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not,
used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or
treatment of physical and mental illness. Therefore, the difference is evident on the type of
approach.
Health as a Human Right

✓ The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 25: - articulates this right to adequate health:
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself
and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care…”
✓ Republic Act 7305 - This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta of Public Health Workers."
✓ Republic Act 9502 - An act providing for cheaper and quality medicines, amending for the
purpose Republic Act No. 8293 or the intellectual property code, Republic Act No. 6675 or the
Generics Act of 1988
✓ Republic Act 8423 - "Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997" or An Act Creating
the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) to Accelerate the
Development of Traditional and Alternative.
✓ Republic Act 11469 – An act declaring the existence of a National Emergency arising from the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) situation and a national policy in connection therewith,
and authorizing the President of the Republic of the Philippines for a limited period and subject
to restrictions, to exercise powers necessary and proper to carry out the declared national policy
and for other purposes. This act shall be known and cited as “Bayanihan to Heal as One Act”.
ACTIVITY 9: (25 pts)

Instructions: 1. Create a poem that best expresses your thought on:
How can Education as social institution shape the course of the society’s history, present, and
future? 10 points.
10 points 7 points 5 points 3 points

Piece was written Piece was written Piece had little Piece had no
in an in an interesting style; gives some style; gives less
extraordinary style; somewhat information but in information and
Quality of Writing
style; very informative and a less organized lacked
informative and organized manner organization
well-organized
Clarity of Analysis Excellently clear Clear Acceptable Vague
2. Creatively make a poster-slogan that promotes health as a basic human right.
Rubrics:
Creativity – 5 pts.
Organization and Cleanliness – 5 points
Originality of Slogan – 5 points
Total = 15 points
Tel. Nos.: (+6374) 442-3316, 442-8220; 444-2786;
V. References
Alejandria-Gonzalez, M.C. (2016). Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics. Makati City, Philippines:
Diwa Learning Systems, Inc.
Azarcon, E. R. S., et al. (2008). Principles of Economics with Taxation and Agrarian Reform (A Modular
Approach): Baguio City, Philippines: Valencia Educational Supply
http://www.ilocarib.org.tt/Promalco_tool/productivity-tools/manual09/m9_4.htm
http://www.investoperdia.com/walkthrough/corporate-finance/1/finncial-institutions.aspx
https://www.senate.gov.ph/Bayanihan-to-Heal-as-One-Act-RA-11469.pdf
https://www.senate.gov.ph/ Magna-Carta-of-Public-Health-Workers-RA-7305.pdf
https://www.senate.gov.ph/RA-9502.pdf
https://www.senate.gov.ph/Traditional-and-Alternative-Medicine-Act-of-1997-RA-8423.pdf
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Governor Pack Road, Baguio City, Philippines 2600

MODULE 9 – UCSP Subject Teacher: Kimberson P. Alacyang

Education and Health as Social Institutions

Formal Education is:

❖ Lifestyles – is define as the living/behavioral pattern of a person or a group according to its

Different practices and behavior of individuals/groups

MODULE 9 – UCSP Subject Teacher: Kimberson P. Alacyang

Systems of Diagnosis, Prevention and Healing

Health as a Human Right

ACTIVITY 9: (25 pts)

10 points 7 points 5 points 3 points

2. Creatively make a poster-slogan that promotes health as a basic human right.

MODULE 9 – UCSP Subject Teacher: Kimberson P. Alacyang

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