Consumer Health Flashcards
What is Consumer Health?
Consumer Health s not jury about buying health products and services. It is also about making decisions and having a clear and deeper understanding to make wide choices.
Three components of Consumer Health
Health Information
Health Products
Health Services
How does Health information play a big role in the life of individuals?
It gives details that people can use to make informed decisions about their health and of others.
What is Health Information?
Health information is any concept, step, or advice that various sources give to aid the health status of an individual. The type of information varies depending on various considerations such as but not limited to health history, drugs and alcohol consumption, and eating disorders.
It is where all information about the health products are included. It gives the materials used in manufacturing the product, date, uses, expirations, and even cautions.
Health Information
People acquire health information and products from various sources such as authorized person, media, and technology. It is important to identify the what of these sources?
Reliability
Two types of Sources of Information
Reliable Source of Information and Unreliable Source of Information
What are some reliable source of information?
- Medical and health professionals (Family and school doctors, dentists, nurses, health science educators)
- Government agencies like Department of Health (DOH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Websites ending in gov, edu, and org.
- Local health officials
- Educational institutions
What are some unreliable source of information?
Some Unreliable Sources of Health of Information
- Outdated customs, practices, and superstitions without scientific basis
- Information based on ignorance and prejudice 3. Commercialized health information
- Personal options and incomplete information
- Quack or pseudo healers
Guide Questions or criteria in Assessing Health Information
- WHAT
•What are the available details of the product? Are the details updated? Are the side effects specified?
•What is the purpose of the health information? - WHO
•From whom is the health information? Is this information confirmable? - WHAT ELSE?
•Is there an option where customers can give feedback/ suggestions and receive the needed answers?
What are Health Products?
Health products are 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). These products may be purchased from various places like supermarkets, pharmacies, and hospitals.
Examples: eyeglasses, appliances, medicines, grooming aids, car, etc.
What is a Healthcare Service?
Healthcare services refer to the furnishing of medicines, medical or surgical treatments, nursing, hospital service, dental service, optometric service, and complementary health services. These are often connected to healthcare. These programs aim to appraise the health conditions of individuals through screening and examinations, cure and treat disorders, prevent and control the spread of diseases, provide safety, emergency care, and first aid, and ensure a follow-up program for individuals who have undergone treatments.
Examples: medical and dental consultation and treatment, services from beauty parlors and barber shops, etc.
Guidelines on the Purchase of Goods and Services
- Evaluate which products and services will be beneficial, harmful or useless.
- Know the local laws and regulations that protect consumers.
- Locate dependable medical, dental and nursing services.
- Apply knowledge acquired with respect to personal and environmental health in the purchase of personal goods and services
Tips on how to be a wise consumer
- Gather correct and sufficient information
- Compare and contrast details of available products
- Inquire for more and review if possible
Health services are usually offered by?
Healthcare providers
What is a healthcare provider?
A trained professional who provided people with healthcare.
Three Types of Health Services
- Health Professionals
- Healthcare Facilities
- Health Insurance
What are Health Professionals?
These are individuals who are licensed to practice medicine and other allied health programs and work in the medical profession.
Examples: doctors, nurse, nutritionist, etc.
What are Healthcare Facilities?
These are places or institutions that offer healthcare services.
Examples: hospitals, walk-in surgery center, health center, an extended healthcare facility.
What are Health insurance?
It is a financial agreement between an insurance company and an individual or group for the payment of healthcare costs.
It is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) created through Republic act 7875 also known as the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act of 1995. It aims to provide health insurance coverage for all Filipinos and ensure affordable, acceptable, available, and accessible health care services for all citizens of the Philippines.
Philippine Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
It is the vision statement of PhilHealth
“Bawat Pilipino Miyembro,
Bawat Miyembro Protektado,
Kalusugan Ng Lahat Protektado”
What does PhilHealth ensures?
That every Filipino is a member by covering them under different membership programs which are categorized according to various sectors of our society.
Once enrolled under PhilHealth, w member should?
Declare his or her legal dependents do they can also be extended if the same healthcare protection and benefits as that of the principal member.
