Health

Quarter 1- Module 2
Impact of a Healthy Environment
 What I Know

I. MATCHING TYPE. Match Column A to Column B. Write the letter on the space
provided.

Column A Column B
1. ____ Safe and quality pastime for A. Clean recreational
families waters such as
2. ____ Clear minds which prevent pools and aquatic
commotions or chaos zones
3. ____ Reduce the risk of respiratory B. Safe drinking water
disease C. Dignified ecosystems
4. ____ A resource for agriculture and D. Sanitation
food production E. Clean Air
5. ____ Reduce natural disasters and F. Tidy Surroundings
disease outbreak G. Safe workplaces

II. Fill in the blanks to make the following statements complete. Choose your
answer from the table below.

1. The powerful determinant of human health is the _______________________.

2. A healthy environment provides link to a _____________________.

3. Our environment needs to keep healthy because it ______________________.

4. Exposure to natural environments is associated with ____________________.

5. Some determinants of a ___________________________ are; safe workplace,

well-maintained homes, and sanitary waterworks system.

mental health quality of the crucial to physical healthy

benefits environment health of individual environment

directly impacts built environment unbalanced nature sound economy

human health
 How a Healthy Environment
Impact the Health of the
Lesson People and Community
2

What I Need to Know

The positive impact of external space - the environment, on people were well known long
before our modern times. This module is to provide an overview of addressing the environmental
features that affect human health and wellbeing towards a fine community. You will understand its
positive impact and allow nature to remind you of survival and the quality of life we deserve to enjoy.

What’s In

In the previous lesson, a healthy environment includes our shelter, the air we breathe,
our water, our food and all other surroundings. It’s the microorganisms, radioactive materials,
and all other particles as well as the physical world that we have contact every day. Having a
healthy environment is one of the major factors that lead to a productive and efficient learning
process.

This module will bring you to understand that the environment, directly impact human
health. How we can live, care, and protect environment that support our lives? What are the
things and ways we can enjoy and benefit with a healthy planet? How can we maintain healthy
environment towards a healthy community?

The activities you’ll get to complete will include identifying the features of a well-designed
environments such as homes, building, and roads; also, natural environment like rivers, and
forests which support people’s health and welfare. For instance, social environment is a vital
health-support for individuals’ day to day dealings with this external habitat.

Wellness of the environment directly relates to the wellness and health of the entire human
race and on every other species that make up balance on earth.
 What’s New

Activity 1. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION

Describe the characteristics of these pictures and give its impacts to people’s health and ways to
maintain the environment. Use the table below for your answer.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Characteristics Impact Ways to maintain

Pictures
the environment?

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 What Is It
Let us read!
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS’ P0SITIVE IMPACT TO HUMAN HEALTH AND COMMUNITY

Many aspects of our environment – both

built and natural environment – can
impact on our health. It’s important that
we interpret health issues in the wider
context of our environment and where
we live. The environment's effect on our
health is complicated, yet it brings good
and quality living if the latter is being
cared and protected. There is sufficient
knowledge from decades of research to
take action in reducing environmental
hazards.

A healthy environment contains conditions that provide the means and opportunity to achieve physical
and mental being. It also provides link to a sound economy. Therefore, environment has a direct impact to
human health.
From beach clean-ups to mass tree-planting to marches, individuals, communities and governments
have come out to stand shoulder-to-shoulder for our planet; advocated and acted for a healthy environment.

EXPOSURE TO NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS is associated with mental health benefits.

a. Proximity to green space – associated with lower level of stress and reduced symptomology for
depression and anxiety.
b. Interacting with nature – improve cognition for children with attention deficits and individuals with
depression

DETERMINANTS OF A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT

 Well – maintained homes  Abundant trees and greeneries
 Well – paved streets and roads  Fresh air and clean natural waters
 Sanitary waterworks system  Proper waste and disposal system
 Clean and safe mini-parks  Safe workplace

Healthy and sustainably plant our grown 1. stop the growing epidemics of obesity, diabetes and
food other chronic illnesses related to poor nutrition.
2. supports local economies and farming practices that
reduce harm to people and the environment.
 Health programs that simultaneously Reduce the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases,
strengthen access to healthy shelter, food, obesity, diabetes, some kinds of cancer, and many other
mobility, participation in decision making, outcomes.
and connection to community
Health care that reduces or eliminates the People will practice primary prevention, helping to reduce
use of persistent, bio-accumulative the risk of cancer, developmental disabilities and other
toxicants, carcinogens or other high chronic illnesses in our communities, and those up and
hazard chemicals. down stream in the supply and disposal chains.

Benefit communities by:

Reduce use of mined metals, minerals
and fuels, and increase the proportion of 1. Making people practice primary prevention
sustainable, renewable energy and 2. creating green and healthy jobs
3. alleviating the adverse health effects of climate change
materials. which results to:
a. decreased respiratory disease
b. prevent injury from severe weather events
c. stop infectious disease vectors, psychological
trauma, and clean water shortages.

What’s More

Activity 2. GET IT RIGHT

Answer what is ask. List 5 benefits of a healthy environment.

1. __________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________________________

Processing Questions:

1. Observe and look around your community / barangay. List 5 situations or scenarios of unhealthy
environment.
2. How each of them impact you and your neighbor’s health?
 What I Have Learned

Activity 3. SITE THE BENEFITS

A healthy environment has a vital role to the quality of human life.

Complete the diagram. Site 3 things or/and situations you can enjoy and benefit with
the positive impacts of a healthy community shown below.

A. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________
B. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________

B D

C. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________
D. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________

What I Can Do

Activity 4. A POEM TO REMEMBER

Work together to protect and care for a healthy environment and
remember the potential ways while savoring the great quality of living.
Write an acrostic poem about the environment and how it positively impacts the health and
community.

E mpower greeneries to smell berries____

A _________________________________

R _________________________________

T _________________________________
H _________________________________
Summary
Healthy Environment
A healthy environment contains conditions that provide the means and opportunity to achieve physical and
mental being. It also provides link to a sound economy.
Importance of a Healthy Environment
- Brings good and quality living

POSITIVE IMPACTS OF HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT TO HEALTH AND COMMUNITY

 Happy relationships with others  Basic needs are meet (food, water, shelter,
 Source of tourism revenue income, safety, work)
 Experience wildlife and relaxation  Access to a wide variety of experiences
 Infectious-free life  Diverse, vital, innovative economy
 Higher productivity in works and life  More education opportunities
activities
 Sense of propriety
 Dynamic children’s attitude, mind-set
 Individual has high intellect
 Peaceful community

1. Dignified ecosystems 5. Safe drinking water

 reduce natural disasters and  Prevents water-borne infectious
disease outbreak diseases
 rise of food security  Helps in Getting Rid of Toxins
 increase services that support  Improve sanitation facilities
human health  A resource for agriculture and food
production
2. Abundant trees and greeneries
 High nutritional diet composition 6. Clean Air
 Decrease cases of non-  Combat deaths from lung cancer, stroke, and
communicable diseases heart disease
 Creates jobs to urban areas  Reduce the risk of respiratory disease
 Reduce stress  Longevity of children, women, and elder’s
lives
3. Tidy surroundings
 Clear minds which prevent 7. Sanitation
commotions or chaos  Reduce the severity and impact of
 Healthy and safe space malnutrition
 Prevent infectious disease and  Potential recovery of water, renewable
repulsion energy and nutrients from faecal waste.
 reducing the spread of intestinal worms,
4. Clean recreational waters such as pools schistosomiasis and trachoma
and aquatic zones
 Safe and quality pastime for families 8. Safe workplaces
 Provides source of foods  promotes the wellness of employees
 Local jobs and employers
 Develop skills in water - sport  fewer accidents
activities
 Increase in work productivity
 Assessment: (Post-Test)

I. Fill in the blanks to make the following statements correct. Choose your answer from the
table below.

1. Our environment needs to keep healthy because it ______________________.

2. The __________________________ is a powerful determinant of human health.
3. Safe workplace, well-maintained homes, and sanitary waterworks system are some
determinants of a _________________________________.
4. Exposure to natural environments is associated with ____________________.
5. A healthy environment provides link to _____________________.

mental health quality of the crucial to physical healthy

benefits environment health of environment
individual
directly impacts built environment unbalanced sound economy
human health nature

II. MATCHING TYPE. Match Column A to Column B.

Column A Column B

1. ____Clean recreational waters such as A. reduce natural disasters and disease outbreak
pools and aquatic zones B. Safe and quality pastime for families
2. ____Safe drinking water C. A resource for agriculture and food production
3. ____Dignified ecosystems D. promotes the wellness of employees and employer
4. ____Clean Air E. Clear minds which prevent commotions or chaos
5. ____Tidy Surroundings F. Reduce the risk of respiratory disease

Key to Answers

PRE – TEST POST – TEST

E 5.
Healthy environment\ 5. F 4.
Mental health benefits 4. A 3.
Directly impacts human health 3. C 2.
Sound economy 2. B 1.
Quality of the environment 1.
II. MATCHING TYPE
FILL IN THE BLANKS II.
Sound economy 5.
5. C Mental health benefits 4.
4. B Healthy environment 3.
3. E Quality of the environment 2.
2. F Directly impacts human health 1.
1. A
MATCHING TYPE I. I. FILL IN THE BLANKS
 SUMMATIVE TEST

I. True or False

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is incorrect.

________1. Light can also be a potential type of pollution.

________2. A healthy community should have a diverse and innovative economy.

________3. Environment has an indirect impact to human health.

________4. A healthy environment contains conditions that does not provide the means and opportunity to
achieve physical and mental being.

________5. Proper sanitation reduces the severity and impact of malnutrition.

II. Essay

Directions: Write an essay about the positive effect of a healthy environment into the health of the people and
community. (10 pts.)

Advanced Proficient Approaching Developing Beginning

Criteria (5 pts.) (4 pts.) Proficiency (2 pts.) (1 pt.)
(3 pts.)
Content Content reaches Content is near the Content is beyond the Content is very
Content surmounts expected result. expected result. expected result. basic and lacks
anticipation. in-depth analysis.
The structure of The structure of The structure of the The structure of the Structure is
the essay is highly the essay is essay is somewhat essay is not too unorganized and
organized and organized and organized and organized and not coherent with
shows coherence. coherence is coherent. coherent. There is the topic.
Organization
There is variety in obvious. little variety in There is no
and style style which makes There is variety in There is variety in structure and subject. variety in
the essay very style which makes style which makes structure and
impressive. the essay very the essay very subject matter.
impressive. impressive.