Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV – A CALABARZON
City Schools Division of Cabuyao
Cabuyao Integrated National High School
City of Cabuyao, Laguna

HEALTH 8
Activity Sheet
Quarter 3 - Week 8

Name of Learner__Zarus O. Castro____________________________________ Date___May 12,

2021__________

Grade Level / Section: _______8-Peridot__________________________ Teacher__Sir

orville________

I. Title: Prevention & Control of Communicable Diseases

II. Learning Competency:
 demonstrates self-monitoring skills to prevent communicable diseases (H8DD-IIIf-h-21)
 promotes programs and policies to prevent and control communicable diseases (H8DD-IIIf-h-22)
 identifies agencies responsible for communicable disease prevention and control (H8DD-IIIf-h-23)
III. Directions: This activity sheet contains different task opportunities on how to prevent and control
communicable
Diseases. Read the instructions carefully before answering. Let us start!

IV. Activities
Learning Task 1: Into Your Hands
Directions: Draw your hands in a bond paper. Recall the things your parents told you to be protected
from any viruses. Write these things in each finger then answer the given questions
below.

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 1. What do you think are the best practices that your parents told you? Why?
Drinking vitamins because that’s the best protection in bacteria and viruses

2. Can we control and prevent diseases? Why?

We cannot control our lives but we can prevent our lifes in diseases or any other viruses

Learning Task: Reading Activity

Direction: Read this short information about the Levels of Prevention and the agencies responsible for
communicable disease prevention and control.

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 What are the other agencies under DOH that are responsible in prevention and control?
Government agencies were created to target the prevention and control of communicable and
chronic diseases, as well as HIV, leptospirosis, dengue, measles, influenza, and others. The National
Center for Disease Prevention and Control is the government agency responsible for conducting
studies on the pathology of disease, its prevention, and cure. The Department of Health (DOH) retains
the overall technical authority on health, as it is a national health policy-maker and regulatory
institution. Basically, DOH has three major roles in the health sector: Leadership in public health
programs and policies; Enabler and capacity builder of health institutions and infrastructure;
Administration of specific health services.
The main office of DOH is located in Santa Cruz, Manila. A secretary who is appointed by the
president heads it. Several undersecretaries and assistance secretaries help coordinate the
department’s work nationwide.
Together with its attached agencies, DOH, which is constituted of various bureaus and
services, works to continuously improve the country’s healthcare system. In almost every town and
city in the country, one can avail of municipal/city health centers, which are staffed by doctors, nurses,
medical technologists, and other health workers. Depending on the kind of services one needs, the
health center is ready to respond.
Under the municipal health center is the barangay health center. Its goal is to provide first aid,
maternal and child health care, social disease diagnosis, and other basic health services to all the
community members. It provides free services and medicine for those who need them.

Some of the DOH-attached agencies are as follows:

National Center for Disease Prevention and Control is tasked with developing plans, policies,
projects, and strategies for disease prevention and control and health protection. It is also tasked to
provide coordination, capability building, and advisory services. Some of its well-known programs
include the “Ligtas Tigdas” and “Kontra Dengue” programs which are conceptualized in coordination
with this agency.
National Epidemiology Center is expected to develop surveillance and other health information
systems. Part of its responsibilities is to maintain routine surveillance and other health information
systems. The center keeps a Philippine HIV and AIDS registry of the total number of laboratory-
confirmed AIDS cases and deaths, as well as HIV-positive persons in the Philippines. It also keeps a
monthly morbidity calendar, and disease surveillance reports on leptospirosis, dengue, measles, and
influenza.
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine as the principal research arm of the Department of
Health, it is mandated to conduct high quality multidisciplinary research and development and
production of biological and vaccines that contribute significantly to the prevention and control of
infectious and tropical diseases, especially those of public health importance. The detection of the
deadly swine influenza or H1N1 virus and its antidote was part of the institute’s contribution toward
the well-being of the citizenry.

Learning Task 2: Supply Me!

Direction: Answer the questions correctly. Write your answer in your paper.
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 1.- 3. What are the three agencies under Department of Health that are responsible in communicable
diseases prevention and control?

Infectious Diseases for Elimination Division (IDED) ...

Infectious Diseases for Prevention and Control Division (IDPCD) ...

Environmental-Related Diseases Division (ERDD)

4. Which department has the overall technical authority on health, as it is a national health
policymaker and regulatory institution?

DOH OR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

5. What government agency that is responsible for conducting studies on the pathology of disease, its
prevention, and cure?

Disease Prevention and Control Bureau | Department of Health website.

6-8. What are the three level of prevention? Explain the differences of each level

Primary Prevention

Secondary Prevention

Tertiary Prevention

Learning Task 3: Real Scenario

Direction: Read the situations in the box. Write the appropriate actions on the next column. Copy and
answer this to your pad paper

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 Scenario What I should do

1. I and my friends are

thirsty and exhausted
after a series of doing
physical work out. I
want to drink water but
there is only one glass
available.

2. Inside our classroom,

there is only one comb

available.

3. Your brother asks you

to get your towel. He

will use it because his

towel is dirty and wet.

4. Because you forget to

bring your spoon in
school, your seatmate
offers his/her used
spoon, but he/she clean
it with water only
because there is no
soap available.

5. You saw your little

brother eating biscuits

in a very dirty hands.

Learning Task 4: Local Programs

Direction: Write the existing health programs and policies on communicable diseases prevention and
control in your own locality, community or barangay. Enumerate at least 3 and explain. Copy
and answer the given diagram in your pad paper.

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 Barangay
Health
Programs
and Policies

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Learning Task 5: What can I do?

Direction: Answer the given questions appropriately. Write your answer in a paper.
1. As a teenager, what can you do to prevent the spread of disease?
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2. How can you help your family not to be infected by diseases especially during this time of pandemic?
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V. Closure
Wow! Congratulations! Job well done!

VI. References:

Department of Education (2013). Music and Arts of Asia- Grade 8 Learner’s Material (pp. 314). Pasig City:
DepEd

Grade 8 – 1st to 3rd Quarter Self-Learning Modules and LAS. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.depedtambayanph.net/2021/02/grade-8-1st-to-3rd-quarter-self.html

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VII. Key to Correction

Learning Task 1: Into your hands

Answer may vary

Learning Task 2: AGREE or DISAGREE?

1. National Center for Disease Prevention and Control

2. National Epidemiology Center
3. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine
4. Department of Health (DOH)
5. The National Center for Disease Prevention and Control
6. Primary Level Explanation
7. Secondary Level may
8. Tertiary Level vary

Learning Task 3: Real scenario

Answers may vary

Learning Task 4: Local Programs

Answers may vary

Learning Task 5: What can I do?

Answer may vary

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