Evolution of Musical Plays in the Philippines

Sound Design

• Sound designer plays a vital role in creating and enhancing the atmosphere of a performance, including music on both stage and background.

Theatre Roles

• Playwright: writer of the script
• Set designer: serves a vital role in creating and enhancing the atmosphere of the performance

Physical Education

• Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure used to estimate whether a person has a healthy body weight for their height.
• BMI is calculated by dividing a person's weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters (BMI = weight (kg) / height (m)²).
• Exercise improves physical health by strengthening bones, muscles, and cardiovascular system, and also has mental health advantages.
• Physical activity refers to bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles, typically requiring low to moderate intensity effort.
• Examples of physical activities include walking, running, cycling, dancing, gardening, and participating in sports.
• Passive recreational activities include listening to music, reading, watching TV, surfing the internet, or playing computer games.

Cheer Dance

• 3 elements of cheer dance routine: stunts, jumps, and tumbling
• Skills necessary for cheer dance: agility, strength, and coordination
• Cheer dance is the performance of a routine, usually dominated by gymnastic skills such as jumps, tumbling skills, lifts, and tosses, combined with shouting of cheers and yells to lead the crowd.
• Purpose of a cheer dance pyramid: to create visually appealing formations, showcase strength, coordination, and athleticism, and symbolize unity and strength of the cheerleading team.

Health Careers

• Health care field offers a wide array of opportunities
• Health science career is divided into five pathways: public health, healthcare services, health education, health research, and health management

Music and Opera

• Musical play genre has evolved in the Philippines, relying mostly on adaptations from novels, literary works, or biographical sketches of famous artists.
• Opera is an art and music form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work.
• Examples of Filipino operas: Ang Palasyo ng mga Dwendes, Ramayana, Ang Prinsipe ng mga Ibon
• Lea Salonga, a female Filipino artist, attained international status on both London's West End and Broadway, best known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon.

Environmental Health and Drug Prevention Control

• Environmental health focuses on the community system that promotes unhealthy behaviors such as social and retail access to unhealthy products, and mass media messages that promote and glamourize unhealthy activities.
• Prevention strategies are focused on the community system that promotes healthy choices.

Maternal and Child Health

• Focuses on providing health care to pregnant women, mothers, children, and adolescents up to 18 years of age.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

• A comprehensive system that facilitates the delivery of health and safety services to victims of life-threatening injuries or emergencies.

Dental Health

• Focuses on maintaining the physical well-being of an individual.
• Dentists examine the teeth, oral cavities, and associated tissues.
• Other jobs related to dental health: school health nurse, dental receptionist, and dental assistant.

Clinical Nursing

• Focuses on providing care for individuals who have been hospitalized to facilitate recovery from sickness or rehabilitation.
• Nurses practice in various special areas and settings in the hospital like the outpatient department, emergency room, general ward, intensive care unit (ICU), or even at home (home visit).

Medical and Allied Health

• Allied health professionals apply their expertise to prevent disease transmission and diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate people of all ages and specialities.
• Medical and allied health include: medical technologist, pharmacist, physical therapist, and X-ray technician.

Community Nutritionist

• A qualified individual responsible for nutrition programs of a certain group of people in the community.