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LESSON 10
“Health Benefits in Science and
Technology”
Objective:
Cite the health benefits of advances brought by
science and technology.
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Tests that provides essential information to aid in the diagnosis of illness and
the selection of appropriate treatment. These are
Complete blood cell count (CBC) - determines the number and types
of cells in the blood.
Urinalysis - is a microscopic examination and chemical analysis of the
urine. The presence of sugar, protein, and other substances are
determined using chemical analysis.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) - is a visual record of the heart’s electrical
impulses, which control the rate and rhythm of beating.
Biopsy - is the removal of a small sample of tissue for examination
under a microscope.
Angiography – (also called arteriography) is a visualization of the
blood vessels, usually by introduction of a catheter that is inserted
directly into blood vessels.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) – is a visual record of electrical
impulses discharged by braincells.
Endoscopy – is a method of directly viewing the inside of hollow
organs by inserting an endoscope into the organ.
Nuclear Medicine Scanning (or Radioisotope) – used primarily as a
diagnostic tool to detect tumors, blood clots and malfunctioning of
organs in the body.
Ultasonography – often called ultrasound, is a method of visualizing the
structures of the body by recording the reflections of high frequency sound
waves of those structures.
Mammography – is a simple, generally painless examination of the
breast by means of special X-ray machine that is designed to be used for
soft tissues.
Pap smear Test – involves scrapping some cells from the surface of the
area where the cervix opens into the vagina.
Acupuncture - an ancient system of healing that had developed for over
thousands of years as part of the traditional medicine of China.
Chiropractic treatment – is the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of
mechanical disorders of the joints, especially the spinal column.
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♥ Liquid Nitrogen
♥ Transplant
Modern Apparatus
♣ X-ray
♣ Laser
♣ Key cell bio-energizer
♣ Electrocardiography
♣ Electroencephalography
♣ Ultrasound
♣ Scanner
Scientists who contributed greatly in the field of medicine and health
• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1676) – invented the microscope
• Robert Hook (1678) – developed the first compound microscope
• Louis Pasteur (1861) – Father of Bacteriology; discovered the cure to
rabies
• Joseph Lister (1867) – introduced the value of sterilization and aseptic
precaution
• Edward Jenner (1796) – introduced the first vaccine using cowpox to
immunize small pox.
• Paul Ehrlich (1910) – pioneered the technique of chemotherapy which
deals with the use of chemicals for the treatment and control of diseases-
causing organisms
• Alexander Fleming (1928) – discovered an antibiotic penicillin
• William Einthoven (1911) – invented the electrocardiograph
• Jonas Salk (1953) – developed the first vaccine against polio-myelitis
• Christian Barnard (1967) – performed the first successful heart
transplant on human being
• Dr. Peter Safar (late 1950s) – Father of CPR; proposed the A-B-C
(airway, breathing, circulation) sequence of resuscitation, including the
technique of “mouth-to-mouth” resuscitation
• Dr. Patricia Bath (1981) – ophthalmologic surgeon; invented the
Laserphaco Probe, a surgical tool that uses a laser to vaporize cataracts
via a tiny, 1-millimeter insertion into a patient’s eye
Willen J. Kolff (1950s) – medical researcher; invented the artificial
kidney dialysis machine; also invented the artificial heart in 1957
• Gertrude Elion (1954) – patented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-
mercaptopurine and has made other significant contributions in the field of
medicine; in 1998, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine with
George Hitchings and Sir James Black
• Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen (1973) – invented the technique of
DNA cloning. Which allowed genes to be transplanted between different
biological species? Their discovery signalled the birth of genetic
engineering
• Frederick Banting (1921-22) – co-inventor of insulin, together with
Charles Best, Prof. J.J.R. Macleod and Dr. James Collip. Insulin is a
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hormone produced in the pancreas and is used in treating diabetic
patients.
• Dr. Raymond V. Damadian (1970) – invented the MRI (Magnetic
Resonance Imaging) scanning machine
• Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik (1942) – Austrian physician; published the first
paper on medical ultrasonics, that paved the way to the production of
ultrasound
• Professor Ian Donald of Scotland (1950s) – developed practical
technology and applications for ultrasound.
1. Communicable diseases like measles, mumps, polio, hepatitis, etc. can be prevented
through _________________.
2. __________________ invented the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging).
3. __________________ was invented by Dr. Patricia Bath that uses a laser to treat
cataract patients.
4. The technique of DNA cloning was invented by ______________ in 1973.
5. __________________ is the surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant
on a human being.
LESSON 11
“Communicable Diseases: Combat
Them”
OBJECTIVE:
To know the common communicable diseases that may
have in our community.
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After realizing the health benefits from modern technology, we are now
ready to discuss communicable diseases.
Disease – an illness that affects our body and mind.
- can cause great harm on the individual.
Some diseases can also be passed from one person to another.
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Communicable Diseases
Illness that can be transferred or passed on from one person to another.
Germs that can cause diseases are:
• Bacteria – tiny one-celled organisms that grow anywhere.
• Viruses – most common causes of communicable diseases.
• Fungi – are simple life forms that cannot make their own food.
• Protozoa – are simple, animal-like organisms.
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• through contact with animals – through insect bites such as those of
mosquitoes and bites from infected animals
• through contaminated water and food – microorganisms such as
bacteria and protozoa thrive in water
* Matching Type.
A B
1. Also known as infectious diseases a. Mononucleosis
2. a living organism that is so small
that can be seen only with a microscope b. AIDS
3. simple life forms that cannot
make their
own food c. Communicable disease
4. Kissing diseases d. microorganisms
5. Deadly disease e. fungi
LESSON 12:
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Noncommunicable Diseases: Lifestyle
Diseases
OBJECTIVES:
To know the different or the common noncommunicable
diseases that may result to death.
Noncommunicable Diseases
Noncommunicable diseases – are not caused by pathogens but rather, by how
people live, by conditions with they are born or by the hazards around them. It
also includes diseases caused by a breakdown of the body tissues, poor diet,
environmental and occupational hazards, stress and tension.
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increasingly in women or longer after treatment
3. Lungs mostly in women only about 10 percent
patients lived
4. Breast most common in women about 70 percent of
treated females
recovered
5. Reproductive organ male – prostate gland, more than 60 percent of
testicles patients treated
female - cervix recovered
6. Bone marrow most common type in About 85 percent of
(leukemia) and children treated patients lived;
lymphoma rate of cures improving
for leukemia; rate for
lymphoma is 90 percent
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Lack of energy
Weight loss
Shortness of breath
• Dry, itchy skin
*IDENTIFICATION
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Herbal Medicine: An Alternative Cure
OBJECTIVES:
To know how to use the different medicinal plants as an
alternative cure.
To know where must be this medicinal plants or herbs must
be use a treatment.
A.For Fever
Medicinal Plants Preparation How to Use
1. Camias Take 2-4 handfuls of fresh ♥ Give the patient a
(Kamyas)_ leaves. Boil in 2 glassfuls of sponge bath using the
water for 5 minutes. Add water to decoction. Do this at
make the decoction lukewarm. least once a day, until
fever subsides.
2. Star Fruit Take 2-4 handfuls of fresh ♥ With the decoction,
(Balimbing) leaves. Boil for 5 minutes in 4 give the patient a sponge
glasses of water. Add water to bath. Do this once or
make a lukewarm solution. twice daily.
3. Tamarind Boil 2-4 handfuls of leaves in 3 ♥ Give a sponge bath for
(Sampalok) glassfuls of water for 5 minutes. the sick. Do it once or
Add water to make the decoction twice daily.
lukewarm.
B. For Headaches
Worm Wood Crush some fresh leaves. Add a ♥ Apply on forehead and
(Damong Maria) few drops of cooking oil. Heat temples. Keep in place
slightly. with gauze or strip of
cloth.
C. For Constipation
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Tamarind Collect enough ripe fruit ♥ Eat the Fruit and wash
(Sampalok) down with water.
D. For Cough
1. Chinese Squeeze 2 or 3 fruits into a glass ♥ Fruit Drink – Repeat 3
Orange of warm water. Sweeten taste by or 4 times a day
(Kalamansi) adding sugar.
2. Ginger (Luya) Take 2 pieces of thumbsized ♥ Divide the decoction
ginger and boil in 4 glassfuls of into 3 equal portions and
water for 5 minutes. drink 3 times a day
3. Mango Boil chopped leaves in 2 ♥ Divide into 3 portions.
(Mangga) glassfuls of water for 5 minutes. Drink 3 times daily.
Cool and strain.
4. Tamarind Boil chopped leaves in 2 ♥ Drink the decoction 3
(Sampalok) glassfuls of water for 15 minutes. times daily.
Cool and strain.
E. For Diarrhea
1. Guava Boil chopped leaves in 2 glasses ♥ Divide decoction into 2
(Bayabas) of water for 15 minutes. Cool and parts. Drink every 3 to 4
strain. hours.
2. Star Apple Boil chopped leaves in 2 glasses ♥ Divide the decoction 4
(Kaymito) of water for 15 minutes. Cool and equal portions. Drink
strain. each portion after every 2
or 3 hours.
3. Mango Boil 2 teaspoons of chopped tree ♥ Drink ¼ glass of
(Mangga) bark or 4 teaspoons of chopped decoction 3-4 times daily
seed (core) of the mango fruit in
2 glasses of water. Let it boil until
water is down to half the original
quantity. Cool and strain.
F. For Toothache
1.Guava Take 2-3 fresh guava shoots. ♥ Chew and allow settling
(Bayabas) Wash well. on aching tooth.
2.Garlic Pound 1 small clove of fresh ♥ Insert into a cavity of
(Bawang) garlic. aching tooth. If pain
persists, change garlic
after 2 hours.
G. For Wounds
1. worm Wood Boil 2 handfuls of chopped leaves ♥ Wash the wound with
(Damong Maria) in a small pot for 5 minutes. Cool the decoction. Do this
and strain. once or twice daily.
2. Tamarind Boil 1 to 3 handfuls of chopped ♥ Wash the wound with
(Sampalok) leaves in a small pot for 5 the decoction. Do this
minutes. Cool and strain. once or twice daily.
H. For Cuts and Scrapes
1. Ginger (Luya) Pound enough fresh ginger. ♥ Apply on scrapes or
Squeeze the juice out. shallow cuts.
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2. Tamarind Boil 1 handful of leaves in 4 ♥ Wash cuts and scrapes
(Sampalok) glasses of water for 25 minutes. with decoction.
i. For Joint Pains and Rheumatism
1. Ginger (Luya) Pound a few pieces of fresh ♥ Apply directly on the
ginger. Heat slightly. affected part of the skin
twice daily.
2. Garlic Pound a few pieces of fresh ♥ Apply on the affected
(Bawang) garlic. Heat slightly part at night or when pain
is felt.
J. For Gas Pains
1. Wormwood Drop 4 fresh or 8 dried leaves in ♥ Drink slightly warm
(Damong Maria) a pot with 1 glassful of water. decoction. Repeat once
Boil. Cool and strain. or twice a day.
2. Ginger (Luya) Boil 1 teaspoon of chopped root ♥ Drink the decoction.
in water for 5 minutes. Cool and
strain.
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Tips on Handling Medicinal Plants/Herbs
• If possible, buy help that are grown organically – without pesticides
• Medicinal parts of plants are best harvested on sunny mornings. Avoid
picking leaves, fruits or nuts during and after heavy rainfall.
• Leaves, fruits, flowers or nuts must be mature before harvesting. Less
medicinal substances are found on young parts.
• After harvesting, if drying is required, it i8s available to dry the plant parts
either in the oven or air-fried on screens above ground and never on
concrete floors.
• Store plant parts in salad plastic bags or brown bottles in a cool dry place
without preferably with a moisture absorbent material like charcoal.
Leaves and other plant parts that are prepared properly, well dried and
stored can be used up to six months.
Tips on
• Use only half the dosage prescribed for fresh parts like leaves when using
dried parts.
• Do not use stainless steel utensils when boiling decoctions. Only use
earthen, enameled, glass or alike utensils.
• As a rule of thumb, when boiling leaves and other plant parts, do not cover
the pot and boil in low plain.
• Decoctions lose potency after some time. Dispose of decoctions after one
day. To keep fresh during the day, keep lukewarm in a flask or thermos.
Medicina Fever Head- Cons- coug Dia- Tooth- Wounds Cuts Joint Gas
achetipa-tion rrhea ache & Pains Pains
Plant Scrapes
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1.
Tamarin
2.
Worm
wood
3.
Ginger
4.
Garlic
5.
Mango
LESSON 14:
Professional Services for a Healthy
Community
OBJECTIVES:
To recognize the significance of regulatory laws in
maintaining community health
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6. Laws on having a school doctor and dentist for the maintenance of the
health of the student and the community.
7. Laws that subject the owner of any business establishment to obey the
regulatory laws regarding the health condition of their workers, among
which are:
a. Eight working hours
b. Half-day on Saturday (private corporation)
c. Additional payment on overtime work
8. Laws on women and child labor.
9. Laws prohibiting smoke-belching.
10. Laws on the abuse of illegal drugs in the community.
11. Laws prohibiting the kaingin system, disposal of waste on streets and
esteros, dynamite fishing and deforestation.
12. Laws regarding the dissemination of information about population in
schools.
13. Laws organizing a movement on clean-up drives, reforestation, green
revolution and planting of medicinal plants.
Department of Health
• Is the primary government agency responsible for the equitable,
sustainable, and quality health for all Filipinos.
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• Its main office is located in thaw San Lazaro Hospital compound in
Sta. Cruz, Manila. It has also local departments in every region and
provinces.
• There are doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and other health
workers assigned to serve the people.
The health services of the department:
a. Medical and dental services
b. Health services
c. Health education and manpower services
d. Research and laboratory center
e. Center for cancer control
f. Center for tuberculosis control
g. Nutrition services
h. Dermatology research and training services
i. Nutrition, family planning and natal care services
j. Malaria control services
There are also some organizations that are responsible for specific
areas in the health care and medicine. These are;
• Philippine Medical Association
• Philippine Dental Association (PDA)
• Barangay Health Centers
• Philippine Cancer Society
• Philippine Tuberculosis Society
• Philippine Lung Center
• Kidney Institute of the Philippines
* IDENTIFICATION
1. Specialist in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
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2. Specialist in the health and illness of children
3. Specialist in caring for the mother before, during and immediately after
childbirth.
4. Specialist in diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system.
5. Specialist in women’s diseases especially in the female reproductive organs
and urinary disorders.
* ENUMERATION
6-10 – Health Services of the Department of Health
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MARQUESO, GLENN MRS. GRABILLO
III-G
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