Influences on Health Product Purchases: Media, Comparison Shopping, and Warranty

1. Warm-Up • List three influences that affect your decision on purchasing a health care product.

2. Being an Informed Health Consumer • What information do you need to before you make a decision regarding health products?

3. Key Vocabulary • Health Consumer • Media • Advertising • Comparison shopping • Warranty • Online shopping

4. Key Term Health consumer – anyone who purchases or uses health products or services Ex. Shampoo, skin cleansers, deodorant food, nutrition supplements, clothes etc. Media – the various methods of communicating information Ex. television, radio, newspaper, magazines, internet

5. Media/Commercial video targeted at health consumers.

6. Behind the scenes! • McDonalds • Video

7. Continued…. • Advertising – written or spoken message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product or service.

8. Media and Influence… • Doritos • Video

9. 5 ways the media influences societyand hidden messages. • Bandwagon (group of people using a product) • Rich and Famous (products used by celebrities) • Free gifts (Redeemable coupons, rebates) • Good times (People laughing and smiling) • Testimonial (People whom the product worked for)

10. 10. CREW 60TH White Gold – Tibaldi fountain pens Continued • Comparison Shopping – method of judging the benefits of different products by comparing quality, features, and cost.

11. 10. CREW 60TH White Gold – Tibaldi fountain pens Continued • Warranty – a company’s written agreement to repair a product or refund your money should a product not function properly. Which one would probably have a warranty?

12. Continued…. • Online shopping – using the internet to buy products or services.

13. How to read labels • FDA – Food and Drug Administration

14. Understanding the FDA • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products. As of 2017, 3/4th of the FDA budget (approximately $700 million) is funded by the pharmaceutical companies due to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.

15. Understanding Food Labels

16. Calculating Calories • Fats • Carbohydrates • Protein

17. Calculating Calories

19. Hydrogenated FatsBeware • Shelf-life is increased, as the resulting oil is less susceptible to degrading over time (maybe bacteria have a difficult time eating it too!). • All nutritional value in the original oil is lost. • The texture of the resultant solid can be made to resemble that of natural, animal fats. • The previously perfectly natural oil becomes a totally unnatural, dangerous, relatively un-digestible "plastic".

20. Ingredients Handout

21. Chapter 3 Lesson 2Choosing Community Health Services • Give two example of a community health service center.

22. Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Choosing Community Health Services • Health care system • Primary care physician • Specialist • Preventative care • Health insurance • Medical history

23. Key Terms • Health care system – all the medical care available to a nations people, the way they receive care and the method of payment Houston ranks #1 for which hospital?

24. Cancer Center University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

25. Continued… • Primary care physician – medical doctors who provide physical checkups and general care Why is it important to get yearly checkups?

26. Specialist – medical doctors trained to handle particular medical conditions • Knee Specialist

27. Continued…. • Preventative care – actions that prevent the onset of disease or injury. Ex. Sports (physicals) Ex. Vaccines (flu) What are other examples of preventative care?

29. Continued…. • Health Insurance – a plan in which private companies or government programs pay for part or all of a persons medical costs. • Example: Food Poisoning • What are some examples of health insurance?

30. Medicare • Medicaid • Private insurance (Kelsey, Blue Cross & Blue Shield)

31. Medical history – complete and comprehensive information about your immunizations and any health problems you have had to date. • Why is a medical history report Important?

32. Hank Gathers Gathers' family filed a $32.5-million lawsuit charging negligence. • Video

33. He was found to have an abnormal heartbeat (exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia), and was prescribed a beta blocker, Inderal. However, Gathers felt that the medication adversely affected his play, and he soon cut back on his dosage. As the West Coast Conference (WCC) Tournament neared, Gathers did not show up for repeated appointments to test if the reduced medication was still suppressing the arrhythmias. It was suspected Gathers was not taking any dosage on game days. • An autopsy found that he suffered from a heart-muscle disorder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Gathers' family later filed a $32.5-million lawsuit charging negligence.Loyola Marymount settled out of court for $1.4 million, while the cardiologist who treated Gathers settled for $1 million.

34. Chapter 3 Lesson 3 • Fraud • Health fraud • Malpractice • Consumer advocates

35. Key Term • Fraud – deliberate deceit or trickery. Ex. If someone makes a promise on a product and the product doesn’t work

36. Health fraud – the sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent diseases or care for other health problems. Ex. Pharmaceuticals Medicines Video

37. Continued… • Malpractice – failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards. Ex. Jack Kevorkian

38.  He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claimed to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said, "dying is not a crime"

39. In 1999, Kevorkian was arrested and tried for his direct role in a case of voluntary euthanasia. He was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence. • He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition he would not offer advice nor participate nor be present in the act of any type of suicide involving euthanasia to any other person; as well as neither promote nor talk about the procedure of assisted suicide.

40. Chapter 3 Lesson 4 • Public health – a community wide effort to monitor and promote the welfare of the population.

41. Epidemiology – the scientific study of patterns of disease in a population. • What is the number one thing killing Americans?

42. Answer: FOOD: it’s what we eat!

43. Exit Ticket • What type of nationwide effort can be done to help educate the public on health concerns and issues?