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Health
Quarter 1, Wk. 2 - Module 2
Impact of a Healthy Environment

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Health - Grade 9
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1, Wk.2 - Module 2: Impact of a Healthy Environment

First Edition, 2020

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 Health
Quarter 1, Wk. 2 - Module 2
Impact of a Healthy Environment

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About.................................................................................................i

What I Need to Know..........................................................................................................i
How to Learn from this Module..........................................................................................ii
Icons of this Module...........................................................................................................ii

What I Know..................................................................................................................... iii

Lesson 1:

How a healthy environment positively impact the health of people and community...........
What’s In.....................................................................................................1
What I Need to Know..................................................................................1
What’s New .............................................................................................2
What Is It....................................................................................................3
What’s More ..............................................................................................4
What I Have Learned..................................................................................5
What I Can Do............................................................................................5

Summary........................................................................................................................ 6
Assessment: (Post-Test) ..............................................................................................7
Key to Answers..............................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................... 8
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What This Module is About

Have you ever think of the foundation for good health? Or the kind of living
today, and your children’s future ways to survive life? Is it simply by drinking safe
water or having a fine shelter and a table of good food? Look through the corners of
your home, grasp towards your window, and take steps outside the doors to gaze
along the nature. The farthest your eyes could reach to see, are all part of what we
call the environment, and it inextricably linked to the wellbeing of the individual. Its
health influences human health as well, including our families, communities, and
economies too.
So what picture of a healthy environment we could dwell into? The
environment in which people live their lives, should be a place of cleanliness and
good weather. And from all walks of life, a healthy environment can insure the safety
of their lives not only physically but also mentally. By taking care of our
environments, we take care of ourselves also.
However, city living brings a range of challenges. Our activities continually
destruct our surroundings. When the health of environment come to its near total
deterioration, life expectancy comes to ruin and lots of physical and mental illnesses
will rise. Life – threatening disease will increase and the quality of life is affected. The
community then faces a difficult circumstance affecting economy.

Therefore, give your best to learn and practice positive roles in maintaining a
healthy environment. Let’s work hand in hand to maintain our planet Earth and claim
its positive impacts to our health and community.

What I Need to Know

As a learner, you possess a crucial role to the environment. Your cooperation

will serve as a groundwork for others to initiate desirable health attitudes, habits and
practices for a healthy community.

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

Explain how a healthy environment positively impact the health of
people and communities (less disease, less health care cost, etc.)
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How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.
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 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 waters

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

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

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 How a Healthy Environment
Impact the Health of the
Lesson People and Community
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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.

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 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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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

Actions towards a Healthy Environment Health Benefits

Healthy and sustainably plant our
grown food
1. stop the growing epidemics of obesity, diabetes
and other chronic illnesses related to poor
nutrition.
2. supports local economies and farming practices
that reduce harm to people and the environment. 

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 Activities directed to improve Benefit such vulnerable populations of low income
environmental health and minority communities that are disproportionately
affected by environmental hazards and inequity.  

Health programs that simultaneously
strengthen access to healthy shelter,
food, mobility, participation in
decision making, and connection to
community
Health care that reduces or
eliminates the use of persistent, bio-
accumulative toxicants, carcinogens
or other high hazard chemicals.
Reduce the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular
diseases, obesity, diabetes, some kinds of cancer,
and many other outcomes.
People will practice primary prevention, helping to
reduce the risk of cancer, developmental disabilities
and other chronic illnesses in our communities, and
those up and down stream in the supply and disposal
chains.

Benefit communities by:

Reduce use of mined metals,
minerals and fuels, and increase the
proportion of sustainable, renewable
energy and materials.
1. Making people practice primary prevention
2. creating green and healthy jobs
3. alleviating the adverse health effects of climate
change 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 neighbour’s health?

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Activity 4. 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
A. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________
B. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________

C. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________
D. _______________________
_______________________
_______________________
C

What I Can Do

Activity 5. A POEM TO REMEMBER

Work together to protect and care for a healthy environment and

remember the potential ways while savouring the great quality of living.

Write an acrostic poem about the environment and how it positively impact
the health and community.

E mpower greeneries to smell berries____

A _________________________________
R _________________________________

B T _________________________________
H _________________________________

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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
 Source of tourism revenue
 Experience wildlife and relaxation
 Infectious-free life
 Higher productivity in works and life
activities
 Sense of propriety
 Dynamic children’s attitude, mind-set
 Individual has high intellect
 Peaceful community
1. Dignified ecosystems
 reduce natural disasters
and disease outbreak
 rise of food security
 increase services that
support human health
2. Abundant trees and greeneries
 High nutritional diet
composition
 Decrease cases of non-
communicable diseases
 Creates jobs to urban
areas
 Reduce stress
3. Tidy surroundings
 Clear minds which prevent
commotions or chaos
 Healthy and safe space
 Prevent infectious disease
and repulsion
4. Clean recreational waters such
as pools and aquatic zones
 Safe and quality pastime
for families
 Provides source of foods
 Local jobs
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 Basic needs are meet (food,
water, shelter, income, safety,
work)
 Access to a wide variety of
experiences
 Diverse, vital, innovative
economy
 More education opportunities
 Develop skills in water -
sport activities

5. Safe drinking water
 Prevents water-borne
infectious diseases
 Helps in Getting Rid of
Toxins
 Improve sanitation facilities
 A resource for agriculture
and food production
6. Clean Air
 Combat deaths from lung cancer,
stroke, and heart disease
 Reduce the risk of respiratory
disease
 Longevity of children, women, and
elders lives
7. Sanitation
 Reduce the severity and impact of
malnutrition
 Potential recovery of water,
renewable energy and nutrients from
faecal waste.
 reducing the spread of intestinal
worms, schistosomiasis and
trachoma
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8. Safe workplaces productivity
 promotes the wellness of  fewer accidents
employees and employers

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

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PRE – TEST POST – TEST

I. MATCHING TYPE I. FILL IN THE BLANKS

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

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https://storage.needpix.com/rsynced_images/burnham-park-02.jpg
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https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/healthy_environment/#:~:text=Protecting
%20Human%20Health%20in%20Our,we%20have%20contact%20with%20everyday.

Khamis Olapade (2019) ‘Benefits of a Clean Environment to Your Well-being’, Thrive Global,
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2020)
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