DAY 1: HEALTH

• Consumer health


  The welfare and wellness of product or service users
• Components of consumer health


  • Health Information
  • Health products
  • Health services
• Health information

  Any concept, step, or advice that various sources give to aid the health status of an individual
• Health products


  Food, drugs, cosmetics, devices, biologicals, vaccines, in-vitro diagnostic reagents, and household/urban hazardous substances and/or a combination of and/or a derivative thereof (FDA Act, 2009)
• Republic Act no. 9711 is an act strengthening and rationalizing the regulatory capacity of the bureau of food and drugs by establishing adequate testing laboratories and field offices
• Health services


  Programs we avail from various providers
• Different kinds of consumers


  • Spendthrift
  • Close-fisted
  • Wasteful
  • Impulsive
  • Panic buying
  • Wise/intelligent
  • Bargain addict
• Health professionals


  Individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and other allied health programs
• Healthcare practitioners


  Independent healthcare providers who are licensed to practice on a specific area of the body
• Allied health professionals


  Trained healthcare providers who practice under the supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner
• Types of healthcare facilities

  • Hospital
  • Walk-in surgery center
  • Extended healthcare facility
• Private hospital


  Operated by individuals to gain profit
• Voluntary hospital


  Does not require profit because it is owned by a community or an organization
• Government or public hospital


  Run by the state and the treatment fees are subsidized
• Teaching hospital


  Includes a school for medical students
• General hospital


  Has complete medical, surgical, and maternal care facilities
• Specialty hospital


  Handles a particular disease or condition or deal with only one type of patient
• Walk-in surgery center


  Facility that offers surgery without the patient being admitted in the hospital
• Extended healthcare facility


  Provides treatment, nursing care, and residential services to patients, often the elderly
• Health insurance


  Financial agreement between an insurance company and an individual or group for the payment of healthcare
• R.A. 8423, also known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997, provisioned the creation of the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Healthcare (PITAHC)
• Hospital


  place where people undergo medical diagnosis, care, and treatment
• Bayabas (Guava)


  anti-oxidant, anti-microbial
• Ampalaya (Bittermelon)


  for diabetes, burns, coughs, and hemorrhoides
• Bawang (Garlic)


  for reducing blood cholesterol levels, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory
• Yerba Buena (Peppermint)


  insect bites, coughs, and colds
• Pansit-Pansitan / Ulasimang Bato (Peperomia Pellucida)


  for arthritis and gout
• Lagundi (Five-leaved chaste tree)


  for coughs, colds, and fever
• Acapulko (Acapulco)


  for insect bites, itchiness, ringworms, infections, scabies, and eczema
• Niyog-Niyogan (Chinese Honeysuckle)


  elimination of inestinal parasites
• Tsaang-gubat (Wild Tea)


  skin allergies
• Sambong (Blumea/Ngai Camphor)


  for hypertension, kidney stones, rheumatism, cough, and colds
• Ventosa


  placing inverted glasses on specific points in the body to relieve muscle and joint pains
• Reflexology

  for specific disorder through massaging of the soles of the feet
• Naturopathy


  "nature" thus, used natural ways
• Acupuncture


  Ancient practice originated in China that involves pricking the skin or tissues with thin needles at certain points of the body.
• Ophthalmologist


  eye specialist
• Dermatologist


  physicians who treat skin, hair, and nail disorders
• cardiologist


  heart specialist
• Neurologist


  nervous system specialist