Health – Grade 6

Quarter 4 – Module 1: Consumer Health

First Edition, 2020

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Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Health 6-Self-Learning Module on Consumer Health!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and

independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims
to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Health 6 Self-Learning Module on Consumer Health!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an
active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATION

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

A. understands the concepts and principles of selecting and using consumer

health products
B. consistently demonstrates critical thinking skills in the selection of health
products

PRETEST

Direction: Put a √ check mark if the statement is all about your right as a
consumer and X if it is not.
_______ 1. Right to basic needs

_______ 2. Right to safety.

_______ 3. Right to redress.

_______ 4. Right to choose goods and services.

_______ 5. Right to consumer education.

RECAP

Direction: Fill in the box with the correct letters to complete the word that
correspond to the statement.

1. It can be a rat or mice.

2. It kills crops like rice and grains.

 3. It damages building.

4. Their urine may cause leptospirosis.

5. It is a kind of pest at home.

LESSON

Consumer Health
It refers to the decisions you make about the purchase of product and use
of health information and services that will have direct effect on your
health.

Importance of Consumer Health

• It helps one property choose the best from among the consumer
goods and services available.

• It protects the public against the risks of injury associated with

consumer products.

• It helps consumers to be aware of their rights and responsibilities.

COMPONENTS of Consumer Health

● Health Information

Is the date facts you got from media and people including the
professionals and agencies.
 ● Health Products

Are those substances, materials or

equipment prepared or manufactured for
you to buy and use in the maintenance of
health and the treatment of diseases.
Example is food, eyeglasses, medicines,
cosmetics, cars, appliances and others.

● Health Services

Refers to health information, actions, procedures or work furnished,

or supplied to help satisfy your needs and wants as a consumer. These are
services and things people do to and for other people. Example of health
services are medical consultation and treatment, using the telephone, using
the electricity, and payment for transportation, payment for haircut,
payment for news papers and your favorite magazines and comics.

Consumer Health Education

Is the process of assisting you to acquire the correct information and
understanding so that you will be able to make wise decision about a certain
health item.

Advantages of Consumer Education

• Consumer education helps a person make proper purchases. It aids
the consumer to make the right decision.

• Consumer education familiarizes consumers with the problems he

might face while making the purchase.

• Consumer education provides a full information of marketing

conditions, like the various sources of purchasing a particular
commodity, where to get cheaper but quality goods, shops, providing
additional facilities, and the latest products.

• Consumer education familiarizes consumers with various

standardizations and their markings.

• Consumer education familiarizes consumers about the various acts

enacted by the government.

Consumer education helps consumers get maximum satisfaction and

proper utilization for his money that leads to better living standards.
 Consumer awareness is a term used to describe the awareness of
potential or current buyer about a
particular product or company. It plays
a key role in consumer decision-
making. It also increases the potential
customers’ knowledge about a product,
service or business.

Consumer Rights and

Responsibilities

• Right to basic needs

• Right to safety

• Right to choose goods and services

• Right to redress

• Right to consumer education

ACTIVITIES

Activity A
Direction: Identify what right is being practice on the image. Write your
answer on the space provided.

1. _______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______

A. Right to basic needs

B. Right to safety

C. Right to choose goods and services

D. Right to redress
 E. Right to consumer education

Activity B
Direction: Identify what component of consumer health does the
following situations shows below.

________________ 1. Getting health tips from popular vloggers in

youtube.

________________ 2. My sister usually goes to salon for her hair

treatment.

________________ 3. Getting advice from health professionals

regarding specific ailment.

________________4. Buying hygiene keep kits regularly.

________________5. Watching on the updates about covid 19 in

the country.

Activity C
Direction: On your notebook, paste at least 3 different health products
being advertised on print ads. Then describe what is it all about.

WRAP–UP
 A. What are the different rights and responsibilities of a consumer?

VALUING

Since it is pandemic cause by covid 19, everyone is advised to stay at

home and avoid going to crowded places. One of the most common mode
of buying products is through online selling. What advise can you give to
avoid fraudulent products?

POSTTEST

Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following does not belong to the group?

A. Right to liberty
B. Right to basic needs

C. Right to safety

D. Right to choose goods and services

2. The following are advantages of consumer education except

one.
A. Consumer education familiarizes consumers with various
standardizations and their markings.
B. Consumer education familiarizes consumers about the
various acts enacted by the government.

C. Consumer education helps consumers get maximum

satisfaction and proper utilization for his money that
leads to better living standards.

D. Consumer education will let you by all the things that you
want without considering the price and usage.

3. Consumer education teaches us to______________.

A. make proper purchases. It aids the consumer to make the
right decision
B. purchase all products that we want.
 C. purchase goods for 1 yr.
D. none of the above

4. What right is being deprived when a seller forced you to buy

a product which you do not need?
A. Right to basic needs

B. Right to safety

C. Right to choose goods and services

D. Right to redress

5. What is the best thing to do when you noticed that the

goods that you bought was broken and unsealed?
A. Give it to your neighbor.
B. Return it to the seller and let it be change.
C. Buy another one in exchange of the broken one.
D. I will just let it pass since I don’t have time anymore.

KEY TO CORRECTION
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