Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Medicine & Health

Recommendations for Good Nutrition

• Prefer vegetable fats
• Roast or steam meat
• Replace fatty foods with fruit desserts

A balanced diet requires a greater quantity of nutrients to meet requirements that require continued growth. Eating breakfast is essential. Being empty stomach can cause diseases such as gastritis.

Obesity

Obesity is a chronic disease characterized by excess fat, which in turn results in weight gain, surpassing by 15% the target weight, due to increased fat reserves. Obesity is the most common disorder of developed societies. We must demystify the popular belief that excess weight is determined by the amount of fluid retention.

Causes of Obesity

• Endocrine: Due to a malfunction of the endocrine glands, such as the pituitary, thyroid,

Conceptualizing Health

Fritzgerald argues that classifying all problems as medical limits our ability to cope with pain, illness, and death as part of life.

Today's massive health industry often promotes deceptive health products.

Fritzgerald emphasizes living a chosen lifestyle, experiencing life's journey rather than adhering to prescribed lifestyles.

An ideal of health has become a rigid definition.

Historically, health problems were a disgrace to individuals and families. Now, both problems and solutions are societal responsibilities, creating a two-way phenomenon.

Errors in self-care are sometimes considered societal crimes due to their collective impact.

Disease is often seen as evidence of misconduct, yet the concept of self-abuse is linked... Continue reading "Rethinking Health: Societal Impact, Personal Responsibility, and Healthcare's Role" »

Simple Past Tense: Usage & Formation

This tense is often used to refer to actions that took place at a particular time in the past. In this case, time expressions like yesterday or last year are commonly used.

It also refers to actions that occurred and were completed in the past, even without mentioning the exact moment.

To form the Simple Past, we put the verb in its past form. This is where the difficulty arises. First, we must distinguish between two kinds of verbs: regular and irregular. Due to their complexity, we will cover irregular verbs in an upcoming lesson and focus on regular verbs here.

Using "When" for Consecutive Past Actions

The word when is used to speak of two consecutive actions in the past.

Forming Simple Past Sentences

• For

Objectives of Epidemiology

Objectives of epidemiology. The study of the environment, human habitat, waste, excrement, water supplies, methods of health education programs for health promotion, occupational health, the fight against drug addiction, and planning and management of health services to improve and correct the errors identified. Furthermore, the study presents the epidemiology of disease in relation to: the factors that determine the occurrence of disease; distribution in the population by municipalities, nations, and geographical regions; frequency and time course (mortality, morbidity and consequences of disease). Finally, what epidemiological studies of community health purport to do is: get to a diagnosis of community health, evaluate... Continue reading "Epidemiology Objectives and Communicable Disease Terms" »

The Language of the Gypsy

C (it is clear that the Gypsy originally menja from India ..), b, a, d, b, b, c, b

Aw-Learning Dog

D (fast mapping), b, b, a, c, d, c, a

Kill a Snail

D (have cared) a, b, a, c, b, b, c

Right to Vote

B (thanks to) b, a, c, a, d, b, d

Bilingual

C (have better) c, b, a, c, a, d, b

Teacher, Change Life

D (Tregui recently) d, d, a, b, c, d, c

Chinese School

A (much better) c, b, c, c, d, b, b

Why Kids Bully

C (for no apparent) a, a, c, d, d, a, b

Nomophobia

A (more people) a, a, b, c, a, a, a

Death Sites: How To

D (keep ), c, b, a, c, a, c, d

Living in Harmony

C (a dry), d, a, b, d, c, c, a

What the Au Pair Saw

C (what), b, a, d, b, a, b, d

The Camino de Santiago

C (and a), a, b, d, d, a, c, d

Digital and Traditional Tools

D (thinks personal), b,... Continue reading "Untangling Common Misconceptions in Modern Society" »

Item 11 of Prevention Management

1. Risk Assessment

It is a process to detect and estimate the magnitude of all risks in the company, determining which can be removed and acting on those that have not been avoided.

To perform the risk assessment is a systematic analysis of all aspects of the workplace, taking into account:

• The nature of the company's activity.
• The nature and number of exposed workers.

1.1. Risk Analysis

1. Identify the hazard.
2. Describe the risk.
3. Estimate the Risk:
   • High probability: the damage will occur always or almost always.
   • Average probability: the damage will occur occasionally.
   • Low probability: the damage will occur rarely.

1.2. Risk Evaluation

Consists of issuing an opinion on the tolerability of risk, based on previous studies. When... Continue reading "Effective Risk Management and Prevention in the Workplace" »

Emergency Plan 7.0

Objective: Implementation and maintenance of an emergency plan, which defines the sequence of actions to be developed for the initial control of emergencies.

Risk: Likely to suffer a certain damage. Emergency: Situation unforeseen by the possibility of damage and requires priority intervention. Ominous: Serious damage, accidental destruction, or significant loss suffered by people or property.

Emergencies: Natural hazards, chemical and biological, social, and technological.

Types of Emergencies: Depending on its severity can be: Conato, Partial Emergency, and General Emergency.

Alarm types:

• Restricted: It affects people who must act first in an emergency, to control a particular claim. It is for the chief of emergency and specialized

Pharmaceutical Research and Development Journey

From Concept to Market: The Drug Development Timeline

From the initial idea that a chemical compound could become a drug until the molecule is ready for marketing, the process typically spans about seven to twelve years.

Sources of Medicinal Compounds

Chemical defenses from fungi and and plants against viruses and bacteria are significant sources of drugs. The contribution of the marine world has achieved a high profile, exemplified by AZT for AIDS, which was extracted from herring sperm. The plant kingdom is a paradise for pharmacology. Animal-derived medicines are also obtained; for instance, insulin was first extracted from the pancreas of a dog.

Sometimes, medicines designed for one objective prove... Continue reading "Drug Discovery & Development: From Lab to Market" »

Effective Negotiation Strategies and Tactics

Common Negotiation Strategies

• Imposition: I Win-You Lose
• Collaboration: I Win-You Win
• Compromise or Transaction: I Lose-You Lose
• Evasion
• Accommodation: I Lose-You Win

Tactics for Information Preparation

Key tactics for preparing arguments include the secret letter, soaking the ground, the red herring, psychological warfare, anchoring, and direct assault.

Tactics for Argumentation

Common methods used to argue include salami, conciliation, compromise, know-nothing, haggling, good cop/bad cop, and painless delivery.

Tactics for Difficult Situations

Strategies to handle challenging scenarios: change of subject, avoiding the false lure, guilt, sphinx, broken record, judo, bulldog, break, and limited resources.

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