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Health
Quarter 1, Wk. 1 - Module 1
Community and Environmental Health
Lesson 1:
What’s In .................................................................................................................... 1
What Is It ........................................................................................................................3
Summary ............................................................................................................................................. 8
References ........................................................................................................................................... 11
What I Know
I. Read each of the following statement and choose the best answer. Encircle the
letter of your choice.
5. In which of the following ways can we create awareness among people about
environment?
A. By spreading through mouths
B. By making treaties with other countries
C. By the help of mass media showing the importance of environment
D. By forcefully insisting people to protecting environment
Column B
Column A
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C
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
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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.
Figure 1
Environment
Community
Environmental health examines the interaction between the environment and our health.
Fill in the 3rd column with the services you have encountered in your placed to maintain a
healthy community.
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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
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.
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.
HEALTH COMMUNITY COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTA
HEALTH L HEALTH
Absence of community surroundings
disease Individual efforts
Health of all
Well-being Family members of Human’s health
the community
Maintaining, Preventing disease
Productive life One protecting, and and creating
environment improving health-supportive
environments
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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
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4. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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What I Can Do
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.
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5 4 3-2 1
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.
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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.
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Assessment: (Post-Test)
Column A Column B
1. The condition of having a freedom from illness or injury.
Health It allows the individual to effectively deal all demands of
1. Community daily life through a sound mind, body, and spirit.
2. Environment
3. Community 2. It refers to a number of individuals living in certain area
Health and sharing the same interest for the common good of
4. Environmental every family.
Health
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.
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