Saturday, January 27, 2007
Blog 2 Economics on Women's Healthcare
In reading the articles concerning Economics on Women's Healthcare, I was very surprised at what I had read. I believe women should not be discriminated against because of age, income or any other health reasons. I believe that healthcare should be the same rate for everyone regardless of age, gender, education and socioeconomics. Women should receive the same healthcare privileges as men with the same rate.I believe that access to healthcare is a right for everyone regardless of age, gender, health reasons or socioeconomics.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Health Issues
The health issues that I am concerned with are skin cancer and iron deficiency. I am a surviving melanoma skin cancer patient. My skin cancer was discovered by my family physician who thought my mole on the left side of my face was too large. I had a biopsy of the mole on my face and the biopsy revealed that I had an early stage of melanoma. I had been feeling tired a lot but I never thought my tiredness was caused by my melanoma. I had the mole removed from my skin by laser and I was placed on an oral chemotherapy plan. I am cancer free at the moment but I have to wear sunscreen every day and re-apply the sunscreen to my skin every six hours. I also have to take 60mg. of iron a day because I have an iron deficiency which is a side effect of skin cancer. If I don’t take my iron every day, I feel tired and dizzy. Everyone should wear some type of sunscreen every day whether the sun is shinning or not during the day hours to prevent skin cancer and sun damage to the skin. Untreated skin cancer and iron deficiency can be detrimental.
I asked my best friend Kelly who is 19 years of age, an American and a physical education major at U.N.T. what health issues concerned her? Kelly said obesity and depression were her concerns on health. She said that obesity is caused by not getting enough physical exercise and eating too many fatty, high calorie foods. Kelly believes that if women were to eat less high calorie foods and increased the level of physical exercise; then there would be no over- weight women and no depression.
I asked my mother who is an immigrant from France what health issues concerned her. My mother said she is concerned with obesity and high blood pressure. She explained to me that she is much older and was told by her doctor that she needed to loose 25 pounds. She said her doctor discovered that she now has high blood pressure and that he has prescribed medication to lower her blood pressure. My mother says she has to exercise three times a week and go on a strict diet so that she can be taken off her high blood pressure medication.
My concerns on women health issues were different from my mother’s and Kelly’s but we are taken preventive measures. The preventive measures are to use sunscreen, increase physical activity and eat healthier so that we can live a happy, fruitful life.
I asked my best friend Kelly who is 19 years of age, an American and a physical education major at U.N.T. what health issues concerned her? Kelly said obesity and depression were her concerns on health. She said that obesity is caused by not getting enough physical exercise and eating too many fatty, high calorie foods. Kelly believes that if women were to eat less high calorie foods and increased the level of physical exercise; then there would be no over- weight women and no depression.
I asked my mother who is an immigrant from France what health issues concerned her. My mother said she is concerned with obesity and high blood pressure. She explained to me that she is much older and was told by her doctor that she needed to loose 25 pounds. She said her doctor discovered that she now has high blood pressure and that he has prescribed medication to lower her blood pressure. My mother says she has to exercise three times a week and go on a strict diet so that she can be taken off her high blood pressure medication.
My concerns on women health issues were different from my mother’s and Kelly’s but we are taken preventive measures. The preventive measures are to use sunscreen, increase physical activity and eat healthier so that we can live a happy, fruitful life.
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