health 10

• consumer health refers to the decisions you make about the purchase of products that will have a direct effect on your health
• 1. health information
  2. health products (over the counter, cosmetic products)
  3. health services
• health information is any concept we receive from people
• health products are things we consume to enhance our well-being
• over the counter are used by the general public without seeking treatment by a health professional
• cosmetic products are designed to cleanse, protect, and change the appearance of external parts of our bodies
• health services provides medical treatment and care to the public or particular group
• quackery is the marketing for the profit of fake and unproven health products and services
• health fraud is the advertisement and promotion that has not been proved to be safe
• 1. medical quackery
  2. nutritional quackery
  3. device quackery
• quack is a person with little or no qualified medical qualifications
• medical quackery uses fake, ineffective, and risky means for claimed medical cure
• nutritional quackery refers to fake practitioners and products, and the deceitful marketing of such goods
• device quackery advertise alternative device or objects that sound "magical" and "miraculous"