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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Importance of Immunization on
Children’s Health Protection
Health – Grade 8
Quarter 2 – Module 6: Importance of Immunization on Children’s Health Protection
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Importance of Immunization
On Children’s Health Protection
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress
while allowing them to manage their own learning at home.
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they do the tasks included in the module.

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activities.
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 Let Us Learn
Before we start, I would like to know how far you know about Family Health.
Specifically, it seeks to achieve the learning competency Recognizes the
importance of immunization in protecting children’s health; H8FH-IIe-f-36

And we will focus our learning objectives with the following:

1. Describe immunization and its kinds;
2. Explain the importance of immunization on children’s health
protection.

Are you ready? Let’s do this. Now, let us start learning about this module.
See you and good luck!

Let Us Try
Loop-A-Word
Instruction: Locate and encircle the given words on the grid which are placed
in possible directions whether horizontally, vertically, diagonally or in
reversed order.

HEALTH CHILDREN VACCINES POLIO FAMILY

TUBERCULOSIS HEPATITIS MEASLES TETANUS

M O R A I Q L D V P D C X G
A M C Z O I Z A T I O N T H
H E R A H D C E U N X L I P
N A F Q I C T R B H V O I K
V S I P I A W G E E A A Q O
S L Z N N C F P R A Y C U T
W E E U O M A P C L U O Y F
L S S O L T M H U T P A O V
H A H I I F I M L H U B B F
L R A T U L L L O E K G D B
Y G I X D Y Y M S C G I T I
Q S T R Z V D N I L Y G V T
R Y E I D K G Z S C V K B F
H N C A E S K I I W K K D W

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Guide Questions:
1. Are you familiar with the terms on the previous activity?
____________________________________________________________________
2. Did anyone in your family acquire those diseases before? How did
they handle it?
____________________________________________________________________

Let Us Study

Importance of Immunization on Children’s Health Protection

According to the report, the process whereby a person is made immune

or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a
vaccine is called immunization (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020).
In the Philippines, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was
established in 1976 to ensure that infants/children and mothers have
access to routinely recommended infant/childhood vaccines (Department of
Health [DOH], 2020).

Here is a table of immunizations a baby should have:

Kinds of Immunization
BCG (Anti-TB)
OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine)
DPT (Anti-diphtheria, Pertussis,
and Tetanus
Hepa B Vaccine
MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
Age of Immunization
0-1-month-old and 7 years old
0-½ month, 2 ½ months, 32
months
1 ½ months, 2 ½ months, 32
months
1 ½ months, 2 ½ months, 32
months
9 months to 1 year

Immunization is beneficial and effective in the prevention of disease,

death and disability from vaccine-preventable diseases. Worldwide, more
than 2.5 million childhood deaths are prevented by immunization each year
(The Open University, 2020).
Vaccines not only save lives; they help children learn and grow, they
mean more days in school, they avert many unbearable risks from
childhood diseases, and they reduce healthcare costs, protecting families
and communities from sliding into poverty (WHO, 2020).
Vaccinations not only protect your child from deadly diseases, such as
polio, tetanus, and diphtheria, but they also keep other children safe by
eliminating or greatly decreasing dangerous diseases that used to spread
from child to child (Stanford Children’s Health, 2020).

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 Let Us Practice
TELL ME MORE

On the illustration below, list down some of the key points and explain briefly
why immunization is important in protecting the health of the children.
Express your answers in the given spaces below.

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 Let Us Practice More
Complete the table below by filling in the correct information about the kinds
and age of immunization for each row based on the readings.

Kinds of Immunization Age of Immunization

0-1-month-old and 7 years old

OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine)

1 ½ months, 2 ½ months, 32
months

Hepa B Vaccine

9 months to 1 year

Let Us Remember

Importance of Immunization on Children’s Health Protection

• Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or
resistant to an infectious disease. The kinds of immunization for
children are BCG (Anti-TB), OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine), and DPT (Anti-
diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus, Hepa B Vaccine and MMR
(Measles, Mumps, Rubella)

• Immunization’s importance is beneficial and effective in the

prevention of disease, childhood death and disability from vaccine-
preventable diseases. Vaccines help children learn and grow. It avoids
many unbearable risks from childhood diseases and they reduce
healthcare costs, protecting families and communities from sliding
into poverty keep other children safe by eliminating or greatly
decreasing dangerous diseases that used to spread from child to
child.

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 Let Us Assess
Direction: Choose and encircle the letter of the correct answer of each
question.

1. What is the method in making a person become protected, immune or

resistant to an infectious disease?
a. Maternal Nutrition c. Parenthood
b. Pregnancy d. Immunization

2. What kind of immunization is given to a 9-month-old to 1-year-old

baby?
a. Hepa B Vaccine c. BCG (Anti-TB)
b. OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine) d. MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)

3. How important is immunization for children?

a. It prevents disease, childhood death and disability.
b. It increases healthcare costs for children’s health.
c. It leads children’s family to poverty.
d. It puts children’s health at risk.

4. How is immunization influence the rate of spreading diseases to

children?
a. It increases childhood deaths.
b. It decreases opportunities for children to grow.
c. It decreases dangerous diseases that used to spread from child to
child
d. It increases childhood illnesses.

5. How do vaccines affect the lives of children?

a. They cause unbearable pain for children.
b. They save children’s lives and help them learn and grow.
c. They help pass on sickness from baby to baby.
d. They are reasons of children’s disability.

6. What kind of immunization is given to 0-1-month-old and 7-year-old

child?
a. DPT (Anti-diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus c. Hepa B Vaccine)
b. BCG (Anti-TB) d. OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine)

7. What is the estimated number of prevented childhood death worldwide

through immunization annually?
a. 4.5 million c. 1.5 million
b. 3.5 million d. 2.5 million

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 8. When was the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) established in
the country?
a. 1876 c. 1976
b. 1987 d. 1869

9. What is purpose of establishing EPI in the Philippines?

a. to protect Filipinos from infections or diseases
b. to prevent the spread of illnesses among children
c. to produce immunity
d. to ensure that infants/children and mothers have access to
routinely recommended infant/childhood vaccines

10. What kind of immunization is given to 1 ½-month, 2 ½-months,

32-month-old baby?
a. OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine) c. MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
b. DPT (Anti-diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus d. BCG (Anti-TB)

Let Us Enhance

Based on what you have read and understood from the readings above, give
at least five importance of immunization to children and your family in your
own words:

1. Immunization _____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

2. Immunization _____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

3. Immunization _____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

4. Immunization _____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

5. Immunization _____________________________________________________
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 Let Us Reflect

Today you have learned what immunization is, its various kinds and
acknowledge how significant it certainly is in protecting children’s health. You
may have learned that immunization is very relevant in making an individual
especially the children become immune or resistant and protected to any
illnesses. The next time you encounter about it, you already know how to
recognize its importance.
Congratulations! You have accomplished this module and you did a
great job! I hope you enjoy answering this module and continue this
enthusiasm with the following modules. See you! God Bless

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Answer Key

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 References

Benavinta et al., Physical Education and Health – Grade 8 Learner’s Module,

2013

Department of Health (DOH), Expanded Program on Immunization, 2020,

https://www.doh.gov.ph/expanded-program-on-immunization

Stanford Children’s Health, Why Childhood Immunizations Are Important,

2020, https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=why-
childhood-immunizations-are-important-1-4510

The Open University, Immunity, Vaccines and the Expanded Programme on

Immunization, 2020,
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=5336
6&printable=1#:~:text=1.4%20The%20Expanded%20Programme%20on,milli
on%20deaths%20among%20children%20worldwide

World Health Organization (WHO), Immunization, 2020,

https://www.who.int/topics/immunization on June 14, 2020.
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