HEALTH 9
First Quarter
Learning Competencies:
•Define community and environmental
health. H9CE-Ia-8
•Describes a healthy community. H9CEIa-9
Learning Objectives:
•Explain the concept of community health
and environmental health;
•Describe the characteristics of a healthy
community; and
•Identify some health community issues and
concerns.
•Appreciate the essence of a healthy
community and environment through
acrostic message.
Lesson 1:
Community and
Environmental
Health
ACTIVITY 1: My Community
Directions: With your partner, discuss the
characteristics of your ideal/dream and
existing community. List down the different
characteristics of your ideal/dream and
existing community in the diagram. In the
space where the two circles meet, write their
similar characteristics.
DREAM COMMUNITY
EXISTING COMMUNITY
The Concepts
of
Environmental
Health
What is HEALTH?
•The World Health
Organization (WHO)
defines health as a state of
complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and
not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.
•It leads to a socially and
economically productive
life.
What is the
difference
between
COMMUNITY AND
ENVIRONMENT?
What is COMMUNITY?
•It is defined as a
sociological group
within a very large
place, sharing one
environment. It,
therefore, includes the
individual and so with
the family.
What is COMMUNITY HEALTH?
•It is defined as the art
and science of
maintaining, protecting,
and improving the health
of all the members of the
community through
organized and sustained
community efforts.
What is ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH?
•It comprises those
aspects of human health
that are determined by
physical, chemical,
biological, social, and
psychosocial factors
within the encompassing
environment.
The
Characteristics
of a Healthy
Community
CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY
COMMUNITY
1. The physical environment is clean
and safe.
2. The environment meets everyone’s
basic needs.
3. The environment promotes social
harmony and actively involves
everyone.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY
COMMUNITY
4. There's an understanding of the
local health and environmental
issues.
5. The community participates in
identifying local solutions to local
problems.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY
COMMUNITY
6. Community members have access
to varied experiences, interaction and
communication.
7. The health services are accessible
and appropriate.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEALTHY
COMMUNITY
8. The historical and cultural heritage
is promoted and celebrated.
9. There are various and innovative
economies.
10.There is sustainable use of
accessible resources for all.
Primary Health
Care Programs
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
•The Department of Health promotes
community health with the
partnership of community and
barangay, government, and nongovernmental organizations through
the program called Primary Health
Care.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
•The World Health Organization also
defines it as necessary health care
made universally acceptable to
individuals and families within the
community by means acceptable to
them through their full participation and
at a price the community and country
can afford at every stage of
development.
ACTIVITY 2: Group Activity
GROUP 1: Jingle Making
You are tasked to create and perform
a short jingle which emphasize a
healthy community and environment.
GROUP 2: Short Act
You are tasked to create and perform
a short skit that shows the negative
effect of an unhealthy community
and environment.
GROUP 3: Slogan Making
You are tasked to create a slogan
that promotes a healthy community
and environment. Explain your work
in class.
GROUP 4: Inspect and Retrospect
You are tasked to inspect the health
services offered in your community
based on the characteristics of a
healthy community. Use the given
table in accomplishing this activity.
GROUP 5: My Top Concerns
You are tasked to give your top
community concerns among the
given priority issues in the
community. You will use the pyramid
chart by writing your top priority at
the base and your last priority at the
top.
ACTIVITY 3: Acrostics
To show appreciation to the
essence of a healthy
community and environment,
you are tasked to create an
acrostic art (In Arts, Acrostic
Arts were symbols found in
the sculptures in the
Byzantine Era).
ASSESSMENT TIME!
Directions: Read each
questions carefully. Choose
the best letter of your choice
on a ¼ sheet of paper.
1. The art and science of maintaining, protecting
and improving the health of all the members of the
community through organized and sustained
community efforts.
a. community
c. environment
b. community health
d. environment health
2. Focuses on how different environmental factors
affect the well-being of a person.
a. community
c. environment
b. community health
d. environment health
3. Immediate surroundings of the living things. This
lesson will focus on how the community and
environment greatly affect the well-being of the
humans living therein.
a. community health
c. environment health
b. environment
d. health
4. Sociological group in a large place sharing one
environment. It includes the individual and the family.
a. community
c. environment
b. community health
d. environment health
d. health
5. It is a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not just the absence of
disease or infirmity.
a. community
c. environment
b. community health
d. health
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