Health

• Reliability - based on real facts and not just made up.
• Credibility - trust health information that comes from reliable experts like doctors, scientists, and well-known organizations.  
• Professionalism - follow ethical guidelines and principles.
• Purpose - How is the information presented? Is it educational and science based or marketing gimmick? 
• Motivation - Is it intended to improve health and well-being or for profit. 
• Health Services - Refers to health actins procedures, or work furnished to help satisfy your need and wants as a consumer. 
• Health Services

  • Medical Consultation 
  • Medical Treatment
  • Medical Prescriptions and Follow-up
• • Nurses - specialization means they get extra training to become experts in certain medical areas and take care of patients with specific needs. 
• Doctors - They provide diagnosis, and treat patient who are suffering from diseases and injuries. 
• Dentists - They provide diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of oral health
• Medical Technicians - an allied professionals who analyzed and test body fluids and tissues.
• Pharmacists - They dispense prescriptions medications and patients and other expertise in the use of prescriptions
• Physical Therapists - They diagnose and treat individuals medical problems or other health related problems that limit their abilities to move and perform.  
• Quackery - is a form of a health fraud in the advertisement, promotion, or sale of products and services that have not been scientifically proven safe and effective.
• Quack - is an individual that has little or no professional qualifications to practice medicine.
• Health Quackery

  • IT IS PROGRESSIVE
  • IT IS A BIG BUSINESS 
  • IT IS  FOR INCURABLE CONDITION
  • IT MULTIPLIES FAST
• Ignorance - Consumers simply do not know the difference between health products and services that have been shown to be effective and those which have not.
• Placebo effect - The mind is a powerful influence on how one feels. This means that he/she feels better because his/her mind says he/she should feel better.
• Self-limiting conditions - means that the condition runs its course even if the person does nothing at all.
• SLEIGH ON HAND/USE OF MAGIC TRICK - Psychic surgery is an example of fakery that some quacks use to promote a false product.
• PAMET - Philippine Association of Medical Technologists