Making wise decisions about your health is part of self-care and self-responsibility. As health care consumers, we need to make important decisions about the health products we purchase, the health services we select, and the information we receive. Being a wise health care consumer starts with 3 basic principles:
1. working in partnership with your health care provider.
2. sharing in health care decisions
3. becoming skilled at obtaining health care
researching how to optimize your health and prevent disease
getting your information from multiple sources
involvement in your health-related decisions
understanding of basic organ function, healthy habits, and disease processes
Knowledge is always power and so smart consumers usually research well the health products that they use. They look for different options and opt for more natural products with less chemical and synthetic ingredients
A recall
A recall
tests products for safety.
By investigating and exposing bad products and business practices
The Consumer Product Safety Commission.
By monitoring new products and recalling unsafe ones.
The Wool Products Labeling Act was established in 1939 to protect consumers from unrevelaed presence of substitutes or mixtures of fiber. The act was then ammended in 1984. The Wool Products Labeling Act was established in 1939 to protect consumers from unrevelaed presence of substitutes or mixtures of fiber. The act was then ammended in 1984.
the government could adopt a graduated income tax,make loans to farmers,protect consumers from unsafe products,and form a monetary system plan
The National Credit Act is in place to protect consumers by promoting a fair and accessible marketplace for consumer products and getting rid of unfair trade practices to protect consumers. There are no real disadvantages to consumers with the act as it covers transactions including loans, goods, and services.
The consumer protection law is designed to help protect consumers against unfair practices by businesses. It gives consumers various rights when dealing with unsatisfactory products or services.
meaures governments put in place to protect consumers from abuse
A boycott