Global Health Initiatives and Goals

Health Education

• Global health encompasses diverse health issues, concerns, and trends that necessitate international collaboration to promote and protect the health of individuals and groups across borders.
• The United Nations Assembly established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a target achievement year of 2030.
• The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) requirements include increasing tobacco product tax rates, health warnings on packaging, and comprehensive advertising bans; it does NOT include lowering tobacco prices.
• Global Health Initiatives are programs by the United Nations, through the World Health Organization, designed to tackle global health issues.
• GAVI stands for Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations.
• The objective of the Mental Health Action Plan (GMHAP) includes strengthening information systems and research, promoting effective leadership and governance, and enhancing social care services in community settings.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to reduce harmful alcohol use due to its significant contribution to global health problems and mortality.
• FCTC aims to protect current and future generations from the harmful effects of tobacco.
• GAVI aims to save children’s lives and protect people by increasing access to immunization.
• The first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) formulated by the United Nations is no poverty.

Physical Education

• Rapping, in hip-hop, is identified as the rhythmic vocal rhyming style.
• Locking is a hip-hop dance move often used with popping.
• Stag leap is a type of split jump often used in ballet.
• Contemporary dance is an expressive dance connecting body and mind through smooth, fluid movements.
• Catherine de Medici is not a pioneer of contemporary dance.
• The body is the one in charge of executing the movements.
• Space refers to the use of surroundings to show variation and movement in a dance.
• Time dictates the duration of a dance and the speed of steps.
• Energy relates to the degree of tension and fluidity in executing actions and movements.
• Action includes dance steps, facial expressions, gestures, and everyday movements like walking and running.

Art Education

• Independent films are created outside major film studios.
• Photojournalism tells news stories through photography.
• Adarna is recognized as the first animated movie in the Philippines.
• Panday was the first Filipino cartoon series shown on TV.
• "Ang Bagong Buwan", by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, addresses the war in Mindanao.
• The Philippines film production declined since 2001 because of piracy, lack of quota on foreign films and the expensive star system.
• George Tapan won the prestigious National Geographic photo contest.
• Kenneth Cobonpue incorporates indigenous materials such as banana leaves into his designs.
• Brillante Mendoza directed "Lola", a short film that won international awards.
• John Chua is prominent in advertising photography, known for technical excellence.

Music Education

• Kudlung and kudyapi are traditional Filipino stringed instruments.
• Balitao is a debate between a man and a woman through song.
• Contemporary music adopts elements of 20th-century music.
• A kulintang ensemble includes kulintang, gandingan, agung, and babandil.
• Gangsa ensemble is performed by the Igorots in the Cordillera.
• Ramon Santos composed "Ating Putting Waling-Waling" and "Ang Hardin ni Ligaya".
• Antonio Molina is regarded as the "Claude Debussy of the Philippines."
• Ryan Cayabyab composed "Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika", "Paraiso", and "Sa Ugoy ng Duyan."
• Lucresia Kasilag founded the Bayanihan Folk Arts Center.
• Alfredo Buenaventura's works are often based on legends and local heroes.