I choose a podcast on traveling overseas and what one can do to help themselves stay healthy. I liked this one because I have recently traveled overseas. The top concerns of this pod casts were the infection of rabies, travelers' diarrhea, and seasonal influenza. They also said that travelers should look out for Hepatitis A, B and typhoid fever. These all can be prevented by shots. I also liked this pod casts because recently in my H 210 class, we had a guest speaker come in and talk about the flu; seasonal and epidemic flu. He said that international travel and airports are the biggest places where people can get sick and bring diseases back into America.
After listening to a couple of the pod casts I thought that they were very helpful. It seems like in every class I have gone to lately, my professors have said that students today are so technologically savvy. So this application might appeal to "the student" generation. Students are constantly trying to obtain more information and like to use the Internet for this information majority of the time. The pod casts are a great way to get information about a variety of different topics and some aren't that long (only lasting about a minute). I think this is a great tool for the students of my generation. It makes information easier to find and you get to listen to it rather than read another article. After finding this tool I hope that day we could use this just as much as we use books. What I also like about this website it that you can look right at the title of the website and see that it says it is a credible source for health care information. I like this, many websites that I have been going to lately have been terrible for the actual creditable.
2 comments:
I think that the vaccination podcast sounds really interesting. I think vaccinations are a great tool that the health care profession depends on in keeping some disease under control.
I went on a trip over the summer (not international) and I was on the flight thinking "I wonder how many people in here have TB or some crazy disease that I'm gonna get". Kind of funny, but really serious at the same time. I've heard somewhere that being on a plane when people are sick is one of the worst places to be because the entire time of the flight, the same air is circulating over and over again, which is pretty nasty if you think about it. Also, I'm not really sure how they "sanitize" a plane, but think about how many people are in and out of a plane (or even the airport) in a day, week, year? Its really gross if you sit down and think about it.
We talked about vaccinations a lot in one of my classes last year, and how there is a lot of controversy with parents and their kids surrounding the effectiveness of them and if they are worth getting. I honestly think that even if something only works 'most of the time' at preventing a disease, then why not take that chance and get the vaccination anyway??
I think traveling is a huge way to spread illness especially on airplanes. Airplanes do not get alot of ventilation and some of the stuff i have read about, they dont get cleaned very often either which means germs everywhere! ick. I never think about this when im traveling though, but it would be so easy for someone with a very contagious disease..lets say ebola (for the sake of being extreme) got on a plane where the disease can just sit and grow with all the available hosts. Its quite disturbing to think about. I remember on my way over to Europe i got really sick in Europe and couldnt think of how..but then i traced it back to the plane and i remember this guy i was sitting by..he was sneezing and coughing..ugh. so yes traveling is the best way to spread infection, unfortunatly.
I agree with the podcasts being to useful. I definetly need to utilize them more because they are a credible resource like you said.
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