MAPEH – Grade 10 Alternative Delivery Mode Quarter 3 – Module 3a: Global

Health Initiatives (Millennium Development Goals) Second Edition, 2021

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 What I Need to Know

In the 21st century, public health protection is viewed both as a shared duty
and obligation. Thus, people need to understand global issues, concerns, and
trends that include fair access to essential healthcare and protection against
malnutrition threats which directly or indirectly affect the health and lives of billions
of people worldwide.
This module discusses the significance of global health initiatives. It aims to
help you learn about the various global health issues and initiative made to help
address these problems.

What I Know

Answer the Pretest below in your Health notebook. Make sure not to make any
unnecessary marks on the pages of this module.
PRE ASSESSMENT

Multiple Choice: Write the letter that best corresponds to your answer.

1. Which of these international organizations is the chief body responsible for

providing leadership on global health, setting norms and standards, and providing
health support to countries around the world?
A. International Committee of the Red Cross
B. United Nations Health and Life Insurance
C. World Bank
D. World Health Organization
2. Which area recorded the highest death rate among children aged 5 years and
below?
A. Africa C. Latin America
B. East Asia and Pacific D. South Asia

3. Which disease is the leading cause of death among people in developing

countries?
A. Heart diseases C. Malaria
B. HIV/AIDS D. Respiratory diseases
4. In what region did HIV infections occur among individuals living in low and middle
income countries?
A. East Asia C. South Asia
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 B. Sub-Saharan Africa D. Pacific Region
5. Which life-style disease is the top leading cause of death worldwide?
A. Cancer C. Heart disease
B. Diabetes D. Osteoporosis
6. Promoting gender equality and education is under what Millennium Development
Goal?
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality
7. Improving proper nutrition of mothers and teaching the benefits of birth spacing
and small family size is under what Millennium Development Goal?
A. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
B. Ensure environmental sustainability
C. Global partnership for development
D. Improve maternal health

8. Encouraging to marry and have families at a later stage in life is under what type
of Millennium Development Goal?
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality
9. Encouraging to improve housing conditions and promoting safer sex behavior and
preventive education for all is anchored on what Millennium Development Goal?
A. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
B. Ensure environmental sustainability
C. Global partnership for development
D. Improve maternal health
10. Early childhood development intervention and promotion of women’s political
rights and involvement is under what type of Millennium Development Goal?.
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality

If you find this test difficult, do not worry. You will learn all these concepts in the
following pages. Let us continue…

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What’s In
One of the most priority concerns in the world now a days are seemingly visible in
the health sector. The government ensures various measures, programs, activities,
or even budgetary requirements needed to obtain optimal services for the people in
every country around the world. As the world is being challenged by this time of
pandemic, public and private sectors joined hands to stabilize the situation on how to
mitigate the spread of corona virus. This act urges the people and even those who
are in position to visit and reassess the MDG program in terms of efficacy and
efficiency of target. This lesson will allow you to redirect and compare specific
objectives in to something relevant and meaningful in the current time. Start by
answering the activity below.

Activity 1

Predict the global effects if the eight Millennium Development Goals. Copy the table
below in a paper/notebook and write your predictions in the appropriate columns.

Goal No. Millennium What if this goal is What if this goal is

Development Goal achieved? not achieved?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

What’s New
Get to know the following:

Millennium Development Goal

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
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 6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHERS
7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
8. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

What is It

According to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000,

commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental
degradation, and discrimination against women. As stated by the United Nations,
(WHO, accessed on December 2021), here are the key facts;

Key facts:
• Globally, the number of deaths of children under 5 years of age fell from 12.7
million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013.
• In developing countries, the percentage of underweight children under 5 years
old dropped from 28% in 1990 to 17% in 2013.
• Globally, new HIV infections declined by 38% between 2001 and 2013.
• Existing cases of tuberculosis are declining, along with deaths among
HIVnegative tuberculosis cases.
• In 2010, the world met the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
target on access to safe drinking-water, as measured by the proxy indicator of
access to improved drinking-water sources, but more needs to be done to
achieve the sanitation target.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 objectives

that UN Member States have consented to attempt to accomplish constantly 2015.
The United Nations Millennium Declaration, endorsed in September 2000, submits
world pioneers to battle neediness, hunger, infection, ignorance, natural
debasement, and oppression ladies. The MDGs are gotten from this Declaration.
Each MDG has targets set for 2015 and pointers to screen progress from 1990
levels. A few of these relate straightforwardly to wellbeing.

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Agricultural nations especially in Africa and Asia experience the ill effects of
outrageous neediness and yearning. Destitution and yearning prompts serious lack
of healthy sustenance which prompts deep rooted physical and intellectual (learning
and thinking) harm and influences wellbeing, prosperity and the economy. A few
critical ideas to destroy neediness and yearning are:
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- Instruction
- Advancing sex correspondence
- Creating more positions
- Putting more in agribusiness
- Reinforced sustenance programs for youngsters and babies
- Backing and security of creating and weak nations during emergencies

To help this program in school, DepEd NegOr sent off the program called,
School-Based Feeding Program, to serve malnourished youngsters to furnish with
new milk for 22 days utilization for nothing. Youngsters are checked through weighing
when the length of the program. Reports are submitted in the provincial office for
information translation. Through this, less special kids in state funded schools find
the opportunity to benefit the administrations consistently.

2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

DepEd's essential objective to guarantee progression of Education for all

made effect across the country, benefiting the people who can bear the cost of
training, however generally the individuals who are less lucky with incredible dreams
to succeed. In help with this reason, the public authority gave free instruction in all
state funded schools in the Philippines. In this manner, making higher percent of
graduates finishing their essential, auxiliary, and tertiary instruction. The
transformation of this matter was given need by DepEd Negros Oriental Division, for
this visionary program to be forced and should be similarly benefited by each
resident in the region. It opens the open door to be instructed and be included in the
worldwide scholarly field with equivalent privileges and opportunity of further
developing information.

In the article gave by The Philippine News Agency of 2021 states that, The
Republic Act 10931, known as the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act
was endorsed into law in August 2017 by President Rodrigo Duterte, giving
oppressed Filipino understudies the chance to seek after advanced educations
through free educational cost and exclusion of different charges in State Universities
and Colleges (SUCs). It further permits Tertiary Education Subsidy that supports the
enrolment of impeded understudies in private establishments where there are no
accessible state or nearby colleges and universities. (The Philippine News Agency,
got to on December 16, 2021)

3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Sex correspondence implies equivalent portrayal of people. It infers that all

sexual orientation ought to have equivalent worth and treatment. Equivalent sexual
orientation treatment engages ladies and different gatherings setting out open doors
in instruction, work, accounts, and different angles which works on the economy and
reduce impacts of monetary emergencies. Sexual orientation uniformity can be
accomplished through:
- Early childhood development intervention
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 - Promotion of women’s political rights and involvement
- Improved reproductive health programs and policies
- Education and integrating gender equality in school curriculum
- Improved women’s access to work and strengthen labor policies for women
- Support and protection of developing and vulnerable countries during crises

4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Projects and arrangements which assist with lessening kid mortality like
working on dietary admission, medical care offices and framework, and different
fields which further develop youngsters' lives. Reinforcing neighborhood and public
wellbeing projects and arrangements is one method for diminishing kid mortality:
- Immunization programs
- Assuring the survival and better health of mothers
- Improving reproductive health programs and policies
- Better nutrition program for infants, children and mothers

5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

Further developed maternal wellbeing isn't just with regards to mother's

wellbeing yet additionally includes the wellbeing and health of the family. Maternal
wellbeing additionally destroys different issues like destitution, sex disparity,
diminished labor force, lower birth passing’s, and handicap of ladies. A few methods
for further developing maternal wellbeing include:
- Improved and proper nutrition of mothers
- Teaching the benefits of birth spacing and small family size
- Educating young boys and girls about the importance of maternal health
- Better and improved access to hospital care especially obstetric-gynecology,
prenatal and postnatal care

6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

Arising and reappearing illnesses like HIV/AIDS, jungle fever, flu and different
sicknesses influence usefulness and development of countries. A portion of the
impacts of illness flare-up are cutback of paid positions, lack in proficient specialists,
and making social emergencies. Kids are the most defenseless and are presented to
double-dealing and misuse sabotaging their typical development and advancement.
A few methods for combatting illnesses incorporate compelling counteraction,
treatment and care like:
- Improved housing conditions
- Increased access to anti-malarial medicines
- Promoting safer sex behavior and preventive education for all
- Promoting Tuberculosis (TB) screening of HIV/AIDS persons and
- TB-Directly Observed Treatment Short (TB-DOTS) Course therapy
- Promoting the use of insecticide-treated nets to fight mosquito-borne diseases

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 In this connection, DepEd NegOr recently launched the program on
Adolescent Reproductive Health Program (ARH), as part of the celebration on World
Aids Day every first day of December. In the webinar launching conducted last
December 15,
2021, the theme “Ending the HIV Epidemic, Equitable Access, Everyone’s Voice”
was clearly delivered for everyone to take part in this cause. Important matters were
stressed out giving emphasis on how to dispatch the spread of this longtime societal
problem around the world.

7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Contributing and supporting maintainable energy like sun based, wind and
water energy assist with supporting positions, set out business open doors, and save
staying non-environmentally friendly power sources. Natural manageability
guarantees individuals to live better and partake in a perfect and green climate. A
portion of the advantages of an economic climate are:
- Cleaner air and environment
- Clean, environment-friendly, and renewable energy
- New and aspiring jobs and business in energy
- Increased access to sanitation

8. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

The United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank and legislatures
cooperate to ensure there is reasonable exchange and that intensely obliged nations
get alleviation and assets to battle neediness, lack of healthy sustenance and assets
for instruction and social activities. A few advantages of worldwide association are:
- Expanded international trade agreements
- Improved access to affordable medicine
- Reduced poverty through government debt relief grant
- Developed information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure

What’s More
Fill in the table below on what is being asked. Copy and answer this in a
paper or in your Health Notebook.
The Philippine Millennium Development Goal

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 Highly Achievable Goals Not Highly Achievable Goals

What I Have Learned

Directions: Review the lessons in the module. Then write your reflection in your
Health notebook by completing the unfinished statements below.
I have learned that ____________________________________________________
I have realized that ___________________________________________________ I
will apply _________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

PRESENT AND FUTURE

Think of the present status of these global health issues and concerns. Write these
in the Present column. Predict what will happen if these global health issues and
concerns are properly addressed by different nations. Write these in the Future
column. Answer the table below on your Health notebook.
Present Global Health Issues Future
and Concerns
Communicable Diseases

Tobacco and Alcohol Use

Mental Health

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 Assessment
Multiple Choice: Write the letter that best corresponds to your answer. Write your
answer in your Health notebook
1. Which disease is the leading cause of death among people in developing
countries?
A. Heart diseases C. Malaria
B. HIV/AIDS D. Respiratory diseases
2. In what region did HIV infections occur among individuals living in low and middle
income countries?
A. East Asia C. South Asia
B. Sub-Saharan Africa D. Pacific Region
3. Which of these international organizations is the chief body responsible for
providing leadership on global health, setting norms and standards, and providing
health support to countries around the world?
A. International Committee of the Red Cross C. World Health Organization
B. World Bank D. United Nations Health and Life Insurance 4. Which area
recorded the highest death rate among children aged 5 years and below?
A. Africa C. Latin America
B. East Asia and Pacific D. South Asia

5. Promoting gender equality and education is under what Millennium Development

Goal?
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality
6. Which life-style disease is the top leading cause of death worldwide?
A. Cancer C. Heart disease
B. Diabetes D. Osteoporosis
7. Improving proper nutrition of mothers and teaching the benefits of birth spacing
and small family size is under what Millennium Development Goal?
A. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
B. Ensure environmental sustainability
C. Global partnership for development
D. Improve maternal health
8. Early childhood development intervention and promotion of women’s political
rights and involvement is under what type of Millennium Development Goal?
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality
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9. Encouraging to improve housing conditions and promoting safer sex behavior
and preventive education for all is anchored on what Millennium Development
Goal?
A. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
B. Ensure environmental sustainability
C. Global partnership for development
D. Improve maternal health
10. Encouraging to marry and have families at a later stage in life is under what type
of Millennium Development Goal?
A. Achieve universal primary education
B. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C. Promote gender equality and empower women
D. Reduce child mortality

Additional Activity

QUESTIONS TO PONDER: You may write your answer in your Health

notebook/paper.
1. How does the Philippine government address the different local and national
health issues and concerns like HIV/AIDS cases, tobacco, and alcohol related
diseases?
2. How can educating the youth help in developing a socially conscious and
healthy individuals who are aware of the various global health threats and
concerns?

Answer Key

References
Callo, L. et al. 2015. Physical Education and Health Learner's Material. Pasig City: Vibal Group, Inc.

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Rocamora, Joyce Ann L. 2021. https://www.who.int/. May 18. Accessed December 16, 2021.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1140715.
WHO. n.d. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/millennium-development-
goals(mdgs). Accessed December 15, 2021.
https://www.who.int/news-room/factsheets/detail/millennium-development-goals-(mdgs).

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