Learning Area HEALTH Grade Level 6

W1 Quarter 4 Date
I. LESSON TITLE Consumer Health
II. MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
Explains the importance of consumer health.
COMPETENCIES (MELCs)
III. CONTENT/CORE CONTENT You as a Health Consumer
IV. LEARNING PHASES AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
I. Introduction (Time Frame: 15 minutes)
A consumer is someone who purchases products, services, and information. Every human being is a health
consumer. We purchase products for health nutrition, for personal care and wellness, and for sanitation and
protection. We also avail of health services from medical professionals.
In this age of digital technology, more people have easy and fast access to health information using
computers. Health products and services can be purchased online. Since these are not regulated, some health
information, products, and services advertised, promoted, and sold online may cause more harm than good.
Online merchants may not be able to deliver all the health benefits promised, or worse, may put people’s lives
in jeopardy.
To better understand the concepts of consumer health, a person needs to familiarize oneself with some
basic consumer health terminologies. The terms below will help you to become a well-informed and healthy
consumer:
✔ Consumer Health – refers to the well-being of individuals purchasing health products and services. It is an
indication of one’s ability to make important decisions in the purchase of health products, and the use
of health information, and services. It involves wise decision-making skills and right attitudes to protect
oneself from fraudulent health products, information, and services.
✔ Health Consumer – a person who purchases health products, avails of health services, and uses data
and information about health products and services. Any person who inquires, buys, and receives health
information, products, and services is a health consumer.
✔ Wise Consumer – someone who applies correct decision-making skills, possesses the right attitudes, and
practices appropriate procedures in choosing and purchasing health information, products, and
services.
As a wise consumer, you can benefit in many ways. Below are some of the benefits of being one:
1. Lessens the risks of harm and danger to one’s health and body. A wise consumer does not only spend
wisely on products and services but also benefits from the effects of the correct products and services
used.
2. Saves money. Buying a fake health product and using it without experiencing the desired effects or
worse, having to suffer its ill effects and having to spend more money on a medication or solution to
these.
3. Promotes Wellness. It is important to be discerning about the health information one receives, sees, or
hears. It is necessary to evaluate and carefully check if the information is true and correct.
4. Knows his or her rights and responsibilities. Knowing your rights and responsibilities will help protect you
from unscrupulous groups and individuals. As a wise consumer, you also know what to do in case your
rights are violated.

Your Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

A healthy and wise consumer never spends his or her money on something unreliable, ineffective, and
fraudulent. He or she should possess the right skills and attitudes to know if the information, product, or service
being offered is reliable or not. He or she should also know what to do and where to go when encountering
fraudulent information, products, and services in the market. The following are your basic rights:

1. The right to basic needs. The state shall protect the consumer’s right to adequate supply of basic needs
such as food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, and sanitation.
2. The right to be informed. It is the right of every consumer to receive information based on scientific and
medical findings. The law protects the consumer from dishonest or deceptive health information.
3. The right to safety. The consumer has the right to be protected from misleading information, and
fraudulent products and services that may be hazardous to his or her health and cause risks to his or her
life.
 4. The right to choose. One must have an option or choice and be able to compare and use as basis for
choosing the quality, place of manufacture, content or ingredients, size or weight, and price of the
product or service being considered.
5. The right to representation. The consumer has the right to express consumer interests in the formulation
and execution of government policies.
6. The right to redress. The consumer has the right to demand compensation for misinterpretation and sub-
standard and unsatisfactory products and services.
7. The right to consumer education. The consumer has the right to acquire knowledge and skills necessary
to be an informed customer.
8. The right to a healthy environment. Every consumer has the right to live and work in an environment that
is neither threatening nor dangerous and permits a life of dignity and well-being.

Source: Jo-Ann Grecia, Johannsen Yap and Alcar Saraza, PE and Health for Fun 6 (Quezon City: Vibal Group
Inc., 2016), 192-195.

D. Development (Time Frame: 10 minutes)

Learning Task 1: Arrange the jumbled letters to identify the term referred to by each statement. Write your
answer in your answer sheet.

1. Someone who purchases products, services, and information. (E M O R N C U S)

2. Someone who applies correct decision-making skills, possesses the right attitudes, and practices
appropriate procedures in choosing and purchasing health information, products, and services.
(E I W S M R O E C U N S)
3. It refers to the well-being of individuals purchasing health products and services.
(S E U C O M N R T E A H L H)
4. A person who purchases health products, avails of health services, and uses data and information about
health products and services. (A H T L H E N O S R E U M C)

Learning Task 2: Read the statements below. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if not. Write your
answers in your answer sheet.
__________ 1. It is necessary to evaluate and carefully check if the information is true and correct.
__________ 2. All of us is a health consumer.
__________ 3. If you are a wise consumer, you may not know what to do in case your rights are violated.
__________ 4. Medical professionals will not help us in choosing the right health products.
__________ 5. Being a wise consumer may lead you to spend more money in purchasing health products.

E. Engagement (Time Frame: 5 minutes)

Learning Task 3: Match the basic right of consumer in column A with its definition in column B. Write the letter of
your answer in your answer sheet.

A B
1. the right to consumer education a. It is the right of every consumer to receive information based
on scientific and medical findings.
2. the right to safety b. The consumer has the right to acquire knowledge and skills
necessary to be an informed customer.
3. the right to representation c. One must have one option or choice and be able to compare
and use as basis for choosing the quality, place of manufacture,
content or ingredients, size or weight, and price of the product or
service being considered.
4. the right to be informed d. The consumer has the right to be protected from misleading
information, and fraudulent products and services that may be
hazardous to his or her health and cause risks to his or her life.
5. the right to choose e. The consumer has the right to express consumer interests in the
formulation and execution of government policies.
A. Assimilation (Time Frame: 20 minutes)

Learning Task 4: Make a poster about the importance of consumer health. You may use any coloring materials
available. Do your poster on a short bond paper. You will be rated using the rubric below.

Rubric:
5 3 1
Shows a good Shows fair Hardly shows
understanding of the understanding of the understanding of the
Content concepts learned. concepts learned. concepts learned.

Quality of work is Quality of work is fair, Quality of work is poor,

competent, showing showing imagination. showing no imagination.
Creativity imagination.

The poster shows a large The poster shows some The poster shows little
amount of original original thought. Some evidence of original
Originality thought. New ideas were new ideas were evident. thinking. Little ideas
evident. were evident.

V. ASSESSMENT (Time Frame: 5 minutes)

(Learning Activity Sheets for Enrichment, Remediation, or Assessment to be given on Weeks 3 and 6)

Learning Task 5: Read the following statements carefully. Then, choose the correct answer and write it on your
answer sheet.

1. The following are the benefits of a wise consumer, EXCEPT;

A. Knows his and her rights and responsibilities.
B. Saves money.
C. Rights to choose.
2. Every consumer has the right to live and work in an environment that is neither threatening nor
dangerous and permits a life of dignity and well-being. It is the right to ___________________.
A. representation
B. consumer education
C. basic needs
3. The right to choose is ________________________________.
A. selecting from a wide variety of health products and services offered
B. receiving factual information based on scientific and medical findings
C. expressing consumer interests in the formulation and execution
4. Any person who inquires, buys, and receives health information, products, and services is a
_____________________.
A. wise Consumer
B. health Consumer
C. rightful Consumer
5. The consumer has the right to demand compensation for misinterpretation and sub-standard and
unsatisfactory products and services.
A. The right to representation.
B. The right to a healthy environment.
C. The right to redress.
VI. REFLECTION (Time Frame: _________)
● Communicate your personal assessment as indicated in the Learner’s Assessment Card.

Personal Assessment on Learner’s Level of Performance

Using the symbols below, choose one which best describes your experience in working on each given task. Draw it in the column
for Level of Performance (LP). Be guided by the descriptions below:
 - I was able to do/perform the task without any difficulty. The task helped me in understanding the target content/ lesson.
- I was able to do/perform the task. It was quite challenging, but it still helped me in understanding the target content/lesson.
? – I was not able to do/perform the task. It was extremely difficult. I need additional enrichment activities to be able to do/perform this
task.
Learning Task LP Learning Task LP Learning Task LP Learning Task LP
Number 1 Number 3 Number 5 Number 7
Number 2 Number 4 Number 6 Number 8

VII. REFERENCES Grecia, Jo-Ann, Yap, Johanssen, and Alcar Saraza. PE and Health for Fun 6. Quezon
City: Vibal Group Inc. 2016.

Prepared by: Checked by:

JULI ANNE MARY S. FABULA
CHRISTIAN DICK B. CUNAG

NIÑA GRACIA P. JAVIER

JHONNEL M. ALEGRO