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Health 11

Quarter 1, Wk. 1 - Module 1

Community and Environmental Health

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

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COMMUNITY AND
Lesson ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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What I Need to Know
To enhance your over – all well-being, you must embrace this opportunity to gain
health literacy. This time, you need to define community and environmental health through
understanding its scope and some aspects or even elements that affect human health. As
you go deeper to its concepts, you are to attain knowledge on the current situation of our
community in the process of analysing certain human activities cognizant to the balance of
nature. This way, you would be familiarizing the process for determining environmental
health and its importance to human’s well - being.

What’s In

Education can create better opportunities for better health. Nowadays, the learners
must be continually assisted to be equipped in their utmost need for necessary skills, values,
and even awareness that promote life-long health and wellness.
Grade 8 lessons in Health has prepared you to become a responsible individual
facing a bigger world in the future. You may have start to practice values and attitudes on
maintaining healthy habits and lifestyle even in the midst of peer pressure and bigger
circumstance.
Now in Grade 9, you are to face on everything external to us – the nature of
surroundings, as well as protecting and preserving everything around the edges of our
mother earth - its forces, including big and small life within the walls of our environment. It’s
time to examine the bigger picture between human and its community. How the environment
withstands human activities from our economic development and fast pace technology – is a
crucial aspect to consider. Hence, how our health could survive when our environment is
slowly deteriorating and indeed.
This could only mean that there is a challenge to educate yourself now to overhaul
the environment as it naturally benefits you as well in unexpected ways.

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 What’s New

Activity 1. THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN

1. Read the following statement.

2. Analyse each and determine if it exists in your barangay / community.
3. Shade the “thumbs-up” with green color if it does, and shade the “thumbs-down” with
brown if it doesn’t.

1. Fresh, clean air to breathe 11. Clean, dry, spacious home

2. Safe drinking water 12. Peace and order control

3. Clean and clear recreational water 13. Proper disposal of hazardous

substances (corrosive, toxic,
explosive, etc.)

4. No visibility of mosquitos, ticks, and

other vectors
14. No traces of climate change

5. Safe place to live

15. Sewerage and proper
garbage disposal

6. Vegetable gardens and plants

in several homes
16. Good and suitable sanitation

7. Control of UV (ultraviolet light) to

keep risks to a minimum 17. Absence of contagious disease

8. Good relationship among 18. Nutritious food

other individuals

19. Medical access and

9. Smoke – free (cigarettes) health care services for all

10. Social interaction and 20. Preservation of culture

means of communication and recognition of faith

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Processing Questions:
1. How many “thumbs-up” you have shaded green? And “Thumbs-down” which you
have shaded brown?
2. Based on the result, is your community an ideal one? Why?
3. How can you practice your role to help your community an ideal one?

What Is It

Green means life or ecology. It represents positive human activity towards the
environment; while brown represents failure to maintain the balance of nature which may
resulted to poor community health.

Community refers to the people of a district or country considered collectively,

especially in the context of social values and responsibilities; society.
According to the Vitalyst Health Foundation, a healthy community is one where
people have the opportunity to make healthy choices, in environments that are safe, free
from violence, and designed to promote health.
Health is the condition of having freedom from illness and injury. It allows the
individual to effectively deal with the demands of daily life through a sound body, mind,
or spirit..
On the other hand, environmental health includes preventing disease and creating
health – supportive environments.
To understand more of community and environmental health, let us also define
community and environment through analysing the illustration below.

Figure 1
Environment
Community

The total surroundings

It refers to a number of external to us including
individuals living in natural forces and other
certain area and sharing living things which serve as
the same interest for the space for growth and
common good of every development as well as
family. danger and harm.

Environmental health examines the interaction between the environment and our health.

Importance of Environment to Human Health

We need safe, healthy and supportive environments for good health. The
environment in which we live is a major determinant of our health and wellbeing.  We
depend on the environment for energy and the materials needed to sustain life, such as:

 clean air  nutritious food

 safe drinking water  safe places to live

Activity 2 ELEMENTS VIA SERVICES

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Fill in the 3rd column with the services you have encountered in your placed to maintain a
healthy community.

What’s More
Activity 3 RESHAPE AND MATCH

Figure 2 shows human health being affected by its environment and community.

Figure 2 is reshaped. Rewriting each of significant words inside the sphere below.
Match them to its correct concept

Figure 2

COMMUNITY HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL

HEALTH HEALTH HEALTH

1. It focuses on people and their role as

determinants of their own and other people’s
health.
2. A resource for everyday life, not the objective of
living. It is a positive concept emphasizing
social and personal resources, as well as
physical capacities.

3. This focuses on the surroundings or physical

setting and its impact on human’s health.

Processing Questions:

1. Did you find it difficult to match the word to its concept? Why?
2. How would you differentiate community health from the environment health?
3. Which do you prefer to be healthy first? People, community or environment? Support
your answer.

What I Have Learned

Activity 4 KEYWORDS TO PONDER

The table shows keywords which conceptualize the important terms Use these
words to define community and environmental health. Numbers 1 and 3 are given
for you as examples.

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 1. HEALTH – is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well – being and not
just the absence of disease or infirmity. It lead to the ability to lead a socially and
economically productive life.

2. COMMUNITY
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

3. COMMUNITY HEALTH – is the art and science of maintaining, protecting, and

improving the health of all members of the community through organized and
sustained community efforts.

4. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Activity 5 POSTER – SPEECH

Here are some of the posters that advocate for the community and environmental
health. Now create your own Poster in a 1/4 illustration board or ½ cartolina and post it
outside your house to remind everybody on the importance of a healthy community and
healthy environment. Then get a photograph of your displayed poster and submit it to your
teacher.

“Good community health

“Progress is impossible
equates to healthy people,
HEALTH is the COMMUNITY without change,
COMMUNITY and those
ENVIRONMENTA
as a community
who cannot change
HEALTH their
L HEALTH
ecosystem or environment
minds cannot change
Absence
in which of live.”
people community surroundings
anything.”
disease Individual efforts
- says Thomas G. Bognanno Health of all Bernard Shaw
-George
Well-being Family members of Human’s health
the community
Maintaining, Preventing disease
Productive life “The environment
One is where and
protecting,
we all meet; where we all and creating
environment
have improving
a mutual interest; it is health-supportive
the one thing all of us environments
share.”
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-Lady Bird Johnson
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Relevance to
the title of The content is The content is The content is The content is
advocacy: exceptionally relevant to the less relevant to irrelevant to the
Community & relevant to the topic. Its the topic. Its topic and poorly
Environmenta topic and well- construction is construction is constructed.
l Health constructed. good. acceptable.
5 4 3-2 1
The concept is The concept is The concept is The concept is a
exceptionally satisfactorily less creative rehash of other
Creativity: creative. creative. and suggested people’s old
Eye opener to Suggested ways Suggested ways ways that are slogans.
the reader that are unique, that are merely suitable
interesting and interesting and to the
suitable to the suitable to the community.
community. community.
5 4 3-2 1
Originality / Exceptional new Good new ideas Less use of new No use of new
Clarity of ideas and clarity and clarity of ideas and ideas and
Thought of details that details that clarity of details clarity of details
contribute to contribute to that contribute that contribute
reader’s reader’s to reader’s to reader’s
comprehension. comprehension. comprehension comprehension

Summary
1. HEALTH – is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well – being and not
just the absence of disease or infirmity. It lead to the ability to lead a socially and
economically productive life.

2. COMMUNITY - refers to the people of a district or country considered collectively,

especially in the context of social values and responsibilities; society.

3. ENVIRONMENT - broadly includes everything external to ourselves, including the

physical, natural, social and behavioural environments,

4. COMMUNITY HEALTH – is the art and science of maintaining, protecting, and

improving the health of all members of the community through organized and
sustained community efforts.

5. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH - examines the interaction between the environment and

our health.

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 Assessment: (Post-Test)

I. Match column A to Column B by connecting it with a line.

Column A Column B
1. The condition of having a freedom from illness or
Health injury. It allows the individual to effectively deal all
1. Community demands of daily life through a sound mind, body, and
2. Environment spirit.
3. Community
Health 2. It refers to a number of individuals living in certain area
4. Environmental and sharing the same interest for the common good of
Health every family.

3. The total surroundings external to us including natural

forces and other living things which serve as space for
growth and development as well as danger and harm.

4. It focuses on people and their role as determinants of

their own and other people’s health.

5. This focuses on the surroundings or physical setting

and its impact on human’s health.
II. Read each of the following statement and choose the best answer. Encircle the letter
of your choice.

1. There is a connection between the environment and human health.

A. True C. Maybe
B. False D. None at al

2. The following are determinants of unhealthy community, except _______.

A. Provides opportunities for C. Conflictual, abusive, or violent
social integration D. threaten safety
B. Undermine the creation of
social ties
3. How can we make our environment healthy?
A. By relying on the government to do all the jobs
B. By killing all animals in the forest
C. By causing more and more pollution
D. By creating public awareness among people about the importance of
environment

4. The following shows a healthy community, except__________

A. Access to green and open spaces
B. Vacant land reuse opportunities
C. Environments with excessive noise
D. Walkability and places for multi-modal transport

5. Which is NOT true about the importance of environment?

A. We depend on the environment for energy and materials needed to sustain life.
B. The environment where we live is a major determinant of our health & wellbeing.
C. We need safe, healthy and supportive environments for good health. 

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 D. Role of environments doesn’t show any relevance in chronic acute health
disorders.

Key to Answers

Pre – test Post - test

I. Multiple Choice I. Matching type

1. Health 1. A
2. Community 2. A
3. Environment 3. D
4. Community Health 4. C
5. Environmental Health 5. C
6. D
II. Matching type
1. A II. Multiple Choice
2. A
3. D 1. Health
4. C 2. Community
5. C 3. Environment
6. D 4. Community Health
5. Environmental Health

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