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• Education is a social institution that formally socializes members of society. It remains a very important support pillar in society
• Education also refers to the process through which skills, knowledge, and values are transmitted from the teachers to learners. This social institution brings about continuity, which is an important factor for development
• Formal education: based in the classroom and provided by trained teaching and non-teaching personnel. It has an approved curriculum, which includes the course outline, the prescribed number of sessions to finish, the lessons, and the authentic assessments and outputs
• Non formal education: is any organized educational activity that takes place outside a formal setup. It is usually, flexible, learner-centered, contextualized, and uses a participatory approach.
• FUNCTION OF EDUCATION TOWARDS AN INDIVIDUAL 1. Development of inborn potentialities 2. Modifying behavior 3. Holistic development 4. Preparing for the future 5. Developing personality 6. Helping adjustability
• FUNCTION OF EDUCATION TOWARDS SOCIETY •1. Social change and control

  2. Reconstruction of experiences 3. Development of social and moral values 4. Providing opportunity or equality
• FUNCTION OF EDUCATION TOWARDS NATION 1. Inculcation of civic and social responsibility 2. Tuning for leadership

  3. National integration 4. Total national development
• HEALTH SYSTEM • It is the sum total of all the organizations, institutions, and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health.
• HEALTH SYSTEM • It needs staff, funds, information, supplies, transport, communications, and overall guidance and direction. It needs to provide services that are responsive and financially fair, while treating people decently.
• Culture Specific Syndromes and Illness : In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture specific syndrome or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms, which the body absorbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering
• Ethnomedicine • It refers to the study of cross-cultural health systems, which first came into use in the 1960s.
• Ethnomedicine • It expanded its focus to include topics such as perceptions of the body, culture and disability, and change in indigenous or “traditional” healing systems, especially as resulting from globalization
• Albularyo: seen as the general practitioner; knowledgeable about folkloric modalities and is usually especially versed in the use of medicinal herbs
• Hilot :refers both the manghihilot or nagpapaanak; manghihilot specializes techniques and treatments applicable to sprains, fractures, and musculoskeletal conditions.
• Mangluluop: specializes in diagnostic techniques, usually referring to the patients after diagnosis to the albularyo, medico, or manghihilot for definitive treatments.
• Medico: is a hybrid, sort of crossover specialization; merges age-old folkloric modalities with ingredients of western medicine such as prescriptions, medications, acupuncture, etc
• Cultural Health Actors Albularyo , Hilot , Mangluluop , Medico
• Defining and Classifying Health Problems (System of Diagnosis)Western Biomedicine: Disease is referred to as a biological health problem that is objective and universal, such as a bacterial or viral infection or a broken arm.illness is referred to as culturally specific perceptions and experiences of a health problem.• Wester Biomedicine is based on scientific understanding.
• Defining and Classifying Health Problems (System of Diagnosis) Ethnomedicine • This is the basis for labelling and classifying health problems such as its cause, vector, affected body part, symptoms, or combinations of these.• Knowledgeable elders are the keepers and pass it down through oral traditions.• It is based on natural, socioeconomic, psychological, or supernatural causes.
• Healing Systems : Western Biomedicine • Humoral Healing emphasizes balance among natural elements within the body.Example: Use of food and drugs
• Healing Systems Ethnomedicine • Community healing emphasizes the social context as a key component, and is carried out within the public domain.Example: Dance as a healing substance