Benefitting Health With a PhD in Health Education
Posted by admin in Health Education on December 5, 2011
Imagine this real case scenario: In Africa, many people die daily due to malaria. This can be avoided by the use of mosquito netting, which protects the malaria-carrying mosquitoes from biting them. However, people are still ignorant and uneducated about how these nets can save their lives, and go on living without them.
Now, picture this: If the people in Africa were educated from young about the dangers of these deadly insects, they would take precautions to save themselves. If, with that knowledge, they also knew that mosquito netting can reduce the number of incidences, many would be alive today.
As the examples given, the education of living healthily is extremely important. Even without such an extreme case, health education helps us maintain a healthy life. Health education refers to learning about how health can be promoted, restored, and maintained. ‘Health’ does not only refer to the physiological aspect; it also includes the psychological and spiritual aspects. Read the rest of this entry »
Health Education – Know Medical Equipment Types
Posted by admin in Health Education, Medical on December 5, 2011
Without a doubt, medical professionals working in hospitals, offices and other health facilities heavily depend on medical equipment in caring for their patients. As such tools are fundamental to perform their job duties, it is best to be aware that there are different types of medical equipment. Ranging from x-ray machines to heart monitor equipments, all take part in just as an important responsibility in patient care as the doctor, nurse or technician who uses them.
Diagnostic medical equipment is a scientific kind of equipment used in the early process of health care which is diagnosis stage. Such instruments embrace ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance imaging, computer-assisted tomography, and x-ray machines.
Therapeutic medical tools instrumentation, which aids in healing, is also known as life support equipments. Such machines include infusion pumps, lasers, and LASIK surgical machines. These kind of medical instruments maintain bodily functions when patients’ body can no longer perform these functions on their own. Such life support machines also include heart-lung machines, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), dialysis machines and ventilators. Read the rest of this entry »
Benefits of Public Health Education
Posted by admin in Health Education, Public Health on December 3, 2011
Public health education can be considered an ambiguous term. It teaches the proper way to improve one’s health, and can involve only one or two people, or the population of several countries. Anything that can seriously threaten the physical, mental, or spiritual health of a wide range of people, notably due to their interactions with one another, can be classified as a threat to the community’s public health. This is why public health education becomes a necessary tool to aid people against the spread of potential diseases and illnesses. Five of the most important reasons of how public health education can prove beneficial are as follows:
1. People are able to learn how to prevent the spread of communicable diseases through the training and methods being taught in education. People are able to have better access to information regarding general prevention of diseases, including the knowledge of what to do and how to act during epidemics in their area. Certain diseases have their own individual prevention methods that people should be well aware of, and employing these techniques lessens the risk of being infected by possible diseases. Through public health education, even simple things such as wearing a flu mask in particularly affected areas, or knowing when to take vaccines for a particular illness that is prominent at that time of the year, always proves very effective in limiting the number of people affected annually.
2. More people are able to access private and public medical institutions to prevent diseases or medical conditions, or to better treat them. Without the benefits of a public health education, most people may feel healthy enough and not find the need to go for a general check-up. Read the rest of this entry »