Health Fraud

Health Fraud

What is

Quackery?
Health

Fraud

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• What is Quackery?
• What is needed to know about Quack?
• Who are the usual victims of Quack?
• Examples of Medical Quack
• How to protect ourselves from Quackery

What is

Quackery? •It is the advertising or promoting
health products/services that have
not been scientifically proven
•It is the advertising or promoting
health products/services that have not
been scientifically proven
•They tell people what they want
to hear & sell door to door product
than conventional ways

How do we recognize

Quackery?

What is needed to know about
• If the seller claims that
medical profession does
not recognize their
product
•If the traditional
medical treatment is
more harmful than
healthful
•If the product is
promoted by a person or
group that no one
usually knows
•If it uses scare
tactics that play on
fears & emotions
•If the seller guarantee a quick
for incurable diseases

Quackery?

Many people will take
advantage of
misinformation and
unbelievable products
found in the internet
and commercials in
the from of quackery or
health fraud
There are people who
will take advantage of
quackery to victimize
someone

Quackery

• Individuals with illness

• Poor Individuals
• Elderly
• Children

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Usual Victims of

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Health Fads and approaches
Medical

Cancer

• Fake, ineffective
risky cure
• Results to
complications

Device

Food

• Gives false cures
like “secret
formula”
• Koch Treatment
• May cause patient
to die from delay
of medicine
Arthritis & Rheumatism

• Uses
necklace,
pyramids
& such
instead of
medical
attention

• Credits through
use of...

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