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Health
Quarter 1 - Module 1
Community and Environmental Health

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

 What I Know

I. 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 all

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

A. Provides opportunities for social integration
B. Undermine the creation of social ties
C. Conflictual, abusive, or violent
D. threaten safety
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. In which of the following ways can we create awareness among people about environment?
A. By spreading through mouths
A. By making treaties with other countries
B. By the help of mass media showing the importance of environment
C. By forcefully insisting people to protecting environment
6. Which is NOT true about the importance of environment?
A. We depend on the environment for energy and the materials needed to sustain life.
B. The environment in which we live is a major determinant of our health and wellbeing.
C. We need safe, healthy and supportive environments for good health. 
D. The role of environments doesn’t show any relevance in chronic and acute health disorders.

II. Match column A to Column B through a connecting line.

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

Environment 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.

Environmental 4. It focuses on people and their role as

Health determinants of their own and other people’s
health.

5. This focuses on the surroundings or physical

C setting and its impact on human’s health.
 COMMUNITY AND
Lesson ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
1
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 .

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

other individuals 18. Nutritious food

9. Smoke – free (cigarettes)

19. Medical access and health care
services for all

10. Social interaction and means of

communication 20. Preservation of culture and recognition
of faith

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

Community Environment

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
 safe drinking water
 nutritious food
 safe places to live

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.
HEALTH COMMUNITY COMMUNITY HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH
Absence of Individual community efforts surroundings
disease
Well-being Family Health of all members of
the community Human’s health

Productive life One Maintaining, protecting, Preventing disease and

environment and improving creating health-
supportive environments

1. HEALTH – is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well – being and not just
the absence of disease or infirmity. It leads 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 4 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 without
equates to healthy people,
change, and those who cannot
as a community is the change their minds cannot
ecosystem or environment change anything.”

in which people live.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“The environment is where we

all meet; where we all have a
mutual interest; it is the one
thing all of us share.”

-Lady Bird Johnson

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
Environmental topic and well- construction is construction is constructed.
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 and rehash of other
Creativity: creative. creative. suggested ways people’s old
Eye opener to Suggested ways Suggested ways that are merely slogans.
the reader that are unique, that are suitable to the
interesting and interesting and community.
suitable to the suitable to the
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 clarity ideas and clarity
Thought of details that details that of details that of details that
contribute to contribute to contribute to contribute to
reader’s reader’s reader’s 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 leads 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 behavioral 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.

Assessment: (Post-Test)

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

Column B
Column A 1. The condition of having a freedom from illness or injury. It allows
the individual to effectively deal all demands of daily life through a
sound mind, body, and spirit.

1. Health 2. It refers to a number of individuals living in certain area and sharing

2. Community the same interest for the common good of every family.
3. Environment
4. Community Health
5. Environmental 3. The total surroundings external to us including natural forces and
other living things which serve as space for growth and
Health
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

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 all

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

A. Provides opportunities for social
integration
B. Undermine the creation of social ties C. Conflictual, abusive, or violent
D. threaten safety

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

Pre – test

I. Multiple Choice
1. A
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. D

II. Matching Type

1. Health
2. Community
3. Environment
4. Community Health
5. Environmental Health

Post - test
I. Matching Type
1. Health
2. Community
3. Environment
4. Community Health
5. Environmental Health

II. Multiple Choice

1. A
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. C
 SUMMATIVE TEST

Name: _________________________________ Section: _____________ Date:___________

Teacher: Score:__________

Health

I. True or False
Directions: True/ False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if the statement is
incorrect. Write your answer on the space provided beside the number.

_____________1. Health defines by merely the absence of diseases.

_____________2. Community consist of individual and family.
_____________3. Environmental health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
_____________4. Environment includes everything external to ourselves and an ecological
community
_____________5. Community Health is important in Community Development to have a clean, safe
and comfortable environment.
_____________6. Department of Health promotes community health through its programs called
Primary Health Care.
_____________7. Brown in environment represents success in maintaining the balance of nature.
_____________8. A healthy environment meets everyone’s basic needs.
_____________9. Human Health focuses on surroundings or physical setting.
____________10. A healthy community has sustainable use of available resources for all.

II.

Directions: Describe a healthy community environment through this diagram. You are
provided with one example.

Clean and
Safe

Healthy
Community
Environment