How To Do More With Less In Healthcare
29-July-2024 Jan Denecker claims that we’ve made great progress in the medical world with innovations; however, we’ve also made it complex and expensive. The combined spending of the USA and the EU amounts to over $4 trillion annually. The USA has doubled its spending on healthcare in the last 20 years, but that spending didn’t […]
How To Stop The Next Pandemic
18-July-2024 Our reactive approach to public health is inherently flawed, says Neil Vora. We prepare for outbreaks so we can respond quickly, but it’s never that easy. People are unaware of viruses spreading if they aren’t sick. People may not choose to get certain vaccines. Before long, we’re confined in our houses because there’s been […]
Going Deeper Than What Meets the Eye
29-May-2024 A while ago, I joined a group of Mental Health Youth Ambassadors, and I’ve really been liking my time there. The program I’m part of is where different groups of people make presentations on various mental health aspects. My group’s presentation is about beauty standards and how social media provokes in people. To kick […]
I Am a Medical Feminist
12-April-2024 This TED-Talk I watched today is by Sarah Hillman. She elaborated on how she previously wasn’t enthusiastic about the idea of being a feminist. One of the reasons for this was that sometimes the word could have a negative connotation. She feared that identifying as a feminist would harm her image, seeing as she […]
Public Health Heals Urban Areas
17-March-2024 I watched another TED-talk by Leana Wen, about how public health could solve urban problems today. One such problem is a food desert, where food options are limited with limited access to groceries and basic goods. 1 of 3 African Americans in Baltimore live in food deserts, losing access to food when the local […]
Women Aren’t Weak. Women Are Warriors
12-Feb-2024 These TED-Talks are getting more and more interesting. I watched another one today about mental health in women. Society expects a lot from women. People want us to be pretty, but not too pretty or they won’t take us seriously. They expect us to be the caregivers of our family without enabling us to […]
Detection of Diseases In Women
3-Feb-2024 I watched another TED-Talk by Noel Bairey Merz about comparing disease in men and women. She addresses that as we have seen women conquering breast cancer, this is what we need to do with the heart. In the 50’s and 60’s, many people believed the theory that heart conditions were primarily a man’s problem, […]
Precision Public Health
7-Jan-24 Earlier, I came across a TED-Talk by Sue Desmond-Hellmann, who gave public health a new viewpoint throughout her discussion. Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an oncologist, and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She started off this talk with a short anecdote. Sue-Desmond always loved growing up in a big family when she was […]
Learning CPR
24-Nov-23 I learned something quite fascinating a couple days ago. I was in my Health Education class, and my teacher was doing his usual teaching lessons, but then he announced that we were going to learn how to do CPR. I was pretty excited to learn, since I’ve always wondered how it works. It’s really […]
Health Education
29-Oct-23 A couple months ago, I started the 9th grade, the beginning of my journey through high school. I will say, it was a bit of an adjustment, but I think I’m getting the hang of it now. One of the courses I’m taking this year is Health Education, and I find it pretty interesting. […]