All of us are consumers. We acquire 7.

Right to Consumer Education:

health information purchase health Acquire knowledge and skills
products, and avail of health necessary to be an informed
services to appraise, improve, and consumer
8. Right to Healthy Environment: To
maintain our health.
live and work in an environment
Consumer Health neither threatening nor dangerous.
A life of dignity and well-being
Refers to the decisions you make about
the purchase and use of health Health Information
information, products and services that will
Data and facts about health products
have direct effect to your health
and services you get from media and
Three dimensions: Health Information, people including professionals and
Health Services, Health Products agencies

Consumer Health Education Any concept or advice that sources give to

aid health status. Depends on diseases,
The process of assisting you to acquire sexual health, weight loss/gain, drugs and
the correct information and understanding alcohol, depression/mental illness,
so that you will be able to make a wise violence, smoking, eating disorders,
decision about a certain health item acne/skin care, local clinics, and sexual
assault. Information is critical as it alter
Consumer Act of the Philippines (RA
health conditions of a person.
7394): 8 Basic Rights of a Consumer
Continuously and rapidly changing. Thus,
1. Right to Basic Needs: Survival,
it should be timely, relevant, culturally
adequate food, clothing, shelter,
appropriate, accessible, and delivered in a
healthcare, education, and
relevant format.
sanitation
2. Right to Safety: Protected against Reliable Information
the marketing of goods or the
provision of services that are Licensed professionals, health books,
hazardous to health and life accredited online sources
3. Right to Information: Protected
Unreliable Information
against dishonest or misleading
advertising or labelling. To be Not experts, customs, superstitions.
given facts and information needed Based on ignorance, prejudice, and
to make an informed choice commercialized health information
4. Right to Choose: Choose products
at competitive prices with an Health Products
assurance of satisfactory quality
Food, drugs, cosmetics, devices,
5. Right to Representation: Express
biological, vaccines, in-vitro diagnostic
consumer interests in making and
reagents, and household/urban
execution of government policies
hazardous substances and/or a
6. Right to Redress: Compensation
combination of a derivative thereof (FDA
for misrepresentation, shoddy or
Act, 2009). May be purchased from
unsatisfactory services
supermarkets, pharmacies, and hospitals.
Refer to substances, materials or care like inpatient and outpatient care.
equipment prepared or manufactured for Inpatient: Stay inside the Hospital.
you to buy and use for maintenance of Outpatient: Does not stay inside.
health and treatment of diseases
Kinds of Hospital
Health Services
Private Hospital is operated by individuals
Connected to healthcare. Aim to appraise to gain profit
the health conditions of individuals to
screening and examinations, cure and Voluntary Hospital does not require profit
treat disorders, prevent and control the because it is owned by a community or
spread of diseases, provide safety, organization
emergency care, and first aid, and ensure Government Hospital or Public Hospital
a follow-p program for individuals who is run by the state and treatment fees are
have undergone treatments subsidized
Healthcare Providers Teaching Hospital includes a school for
Trained professionals who provides medical students
people with healthcare Walk-in Surgery Center
Types of Health Care Providers: Health Facility that offers surgery without the
Professionals, Health Care Facilities, patient being admitted in the hospital
Health Insurance
Health Center
Health Professionals
Caters to a specific population with
Individuals licensed to practice medicine various health needs
and other allied health programs.
Example: Physician (Records medical Extended Health Care Facility
history, provide diagnoses, performs
medical examinations, prescribe Facilities that provides treatment, nursing
medication.) care, and residential services to patients,
often the elderly
Healthcare Practitioner is an independent
health care provider who is licensed to Health Insurance
practice on a specific area of the body.
Financial agreement between an
Example: Podiatrists (Feet), Dentists
insurance company and an individual or
(Teeth), Optometrists (Eyes)
group for the payment of healthcare costs.
Allied Health Professional is a trained Pertains to a ‘protection that provides
healthcare provider who practices under benefits for sickness and injury. Offers
supervision of a physician or healthcare various types of coverage: Medical
practitioner. Example: Nurse, Dietrician, Insurance, Major Medical Insurance,
Pharmacist, Physical Therapies Hospitalization Insurance, Surgical
Insurance, and Disability Insurance
Health Care Facilities
Medical Insurance
Hospital, an institution where people
undergo medical diagnosis, care and Pays for fees of the health professionals,
treatment. Offers different types of medical laboratory tests, and prescription drugs
Major Medical Insurance 1. Obtain and read carefully a copy of
the health insurance plan
Offers payment for long-term or chronic 2. Ask questions of representatives
diseases like AIDS or Cancer from the health insurance plan
3. Shop around for other options
Hospitalization Insurance
4. Choose plans that give the most
Pays the stay of Patient in the Hospital comprehensive coverage at the
most affordable price
Surgical Insurance
Alternative Modalities
Pays for surgery fees
RA 8423 or the Traditional and Alternative
Disability Insurance Medicine Act of 1997 provisioned the
creation of Philippine Institute of
Provides financing for members who meet
Traditional and Alternative Healthcare
accidents or suffer from illnesses
(PITAHC), which works closely with
Health Insurance may be sourced from Department of Health. PITAHC is the law-
both public and private companies. making body with regards to the effective
Example: PhilHealth. Employees of both use of traditional and alternative medicine.
public and private companies avail of
Approved PITAHC-approved
PhilHealth as mandated by law. It requires
Alternative Modalities
small monthly contribution from members.
These contributions are saved and used 1. Naturopathy: Views diseases as a
for the medical care needed by a member. manifestation of an alteration in the
processes by which the body
Health Maintenance Organization
naturally heals itself. Offers wide
(HMO)
range of natural practices including
Healthcare provider that offers medical herbal medicine acupuncture,
services that are availed by a prepaid acupressure, nutrition therapy, and
amount of money. Requires a relatively ventosa cupping massage therapy
reduced monthly fee for subscribers. 2. Herbal Medicines: 10 Herbs that
Difference: Hires or trains its own health are proven and tested by DOH are
professionals and healthcare practitioners
 Akapulco (Ringworm and
Health insurance should cover standard other skin fungal infections)
risks of illness and injury for family  Ampalaya (Non-insulin
members diabetic patients)
Covered expense  Bawang (Blood pressure
control)
Refers to medical expenses that can be  Bayabas (Antiseptic to
paid by the company issuing health disinfect wounds.
insurance Mouthwash or tooth decay
and gum infection)
Exclusions
 Lagundi (Cough and
Specific services that are not paid by the Asthma)
issuer  Niyog-niyogan (Intestinal
Worms)
Evaluating Health Insurance
  Sambong (Urinary Tract Form of Quackery
Stones)
1. Medical Quackery: includes cures,
 Tsaang Gubat
treatments, remedies of various
(Mouthwash)
health conditions that are drugless
 Pansit-pansitan (Arthritis
or bloodless in nature
and Gout Problems)
2. Nutrition Quackery: includes
 Yerba-Buena (Bodyaches
promotion of food fads and other
and pains)
nutritional practices that claim to
3. Acupuncture: Form of energy
be all-natural. Believed to have
medicine where long thin needles
beneficial properties of multiple
are inserted to the body to affect
plants in one product
energy flow. Believed to treat
3. Device Quackery: use of
musculoskeletal dysfunctions
miraculous gadgets such as dials,
4. Ventosa: Placing inverted glasses
gauges, electrodes, magnets and
that have flames from burning
blinkers that are believed to cure
cotton, on specific points in the
certain health conditions
body. Believed to relieve muscle
and joint pains Synthesis
5. Reflexology: Treating specific
disorders through massaging of Consumer Health Education aims to assist
the soles of the feet consumers like you in choosing better
6. Acupressure: Use hands to apply health products and services. Provides
pressure on certain points of the information regarding health products
body consumers wish to buy and the health
7. Nutrition Therapy: Providing tailor services they wish to avail. Helps
diet for the patient consumers recognize reliable sources of
health information and guide consumers in
Quackery buying health products and services

Form of health fraud that is not

scientifically proven safe and effective. It is
operated by a quack (Individual with little
to no professional qualifications to practice
medicine. Pretentiously uses meaningless
medical jargons and relies on scare
tactics, paranoid accusations, and quick
fixe

Characteristics of Quackery

It is a big business. Huge amount of

money spent on fraudulent health
products and services

It multiplies and spreads fast

Thrives on individuals who are diagnosed

with illnesses that are known to have no
cure