Health Teaching Series

It is a dictum in medicine that prevention is better than cure, which upholds to be true even today. Not only is it easier, but also much less expensive. Hence, with that being said, our team conducted three important health education on three different occasions with the hope to help prevent illnesses and improve the quality of life.

Cigarette smoking is one of the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the world. It causes numerous illnesses that could eventually lead to different kinds of disability and even death. Different campaigns have been launched to prevent the spread of this deadly vice, and sadly most of them are ineffective in encouraging people to stop smoking. Hence, before it claims its next victim, we took the initiative to educate the youth about the ill effects of smoking in the hopes, it will deter them from ever starting the deadly habit. We used the different materials available from the department of health in our lecture and presented to them different videos featuring the effects of smoking on the body.

In the barangay, Pulmonary Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death in the community. Hence, it was only appropriate to give a health teaching about Tuberculosis to the general public and answer the different commonly asked questions. Again, with the different materials provided by the department of health, different aspects of the disease were discussed and at the end of the lecture, time was allotted to answer the questions from the crowd.

           The Philippines is one of the several countries who agreed to the conditions set by the Millennium Development Goals. One of those goals is to decrease maternal mortality. In line with such, we discussed the different danger signs to the pregnant women during prenatal checkups. It was important to discuss them thoroughly, for the mothers to have an idea how severe these signs are and how important it is to seek medical help when such signs manifest. A lecture was given, and time was allotted to answer the questions from the crowd after the lecture.