1. What are some of the more common illnesses in developing nations? How do doctors and other health care workers try to tackle these illnesses in such resource-limited areas?
2. What did you learn about AIDS in the developing world? What are we doing to try to prevent or treat AIDS?
3. Can you see yourself becoming involved in overseas medical care? Why or why not?
8 comments:
1. Respiratory diseases, diarrheal diseases, and cardiovascular diseases.
Doctors and health care workers have to be extra creative and frugal when dealing with 3rd world medical conditions.
2. AIDS education is very important, as well as male circumcision.
3. Maybe
3. I'm actually really interested in taking off a few weeks (after I become a doctor) to go on medical mission trips. I just thing that it's really important to contribute back to the world in areas where they are in desperated need of better quality medical care--which is much of the world
3. Definitely. I think it's important to help developing countries, especially with medical needs. Some of the families are so poor and can't get proper medical care. I would really like to help people in these situations have better lives. After all, how can their country progress if their people don't have access to even the most basic medical necessities?
most of the common illnesses are infectious diseases and easily treatable as well. doctors and health care workers have to use the little resources they have and think of a creative but cost effective way to confine the epidemic.
The percent of people infected with the HIV virus/AIDS is relatively high worldwide, even in the US. Education can be a major prevention strategy and today there is even drugs that can help a HIV positive person live a normal life.
Maybe. It's really interesting but seems pretty stressful
1. Diarrhea, malaria, and as Emily said respiratory diseases. In developing countries, gastrointestinal illnesses are becoming ever more prevalent due to sanitation problems and the sort. Tackling the problem… Filtration, reaching out to the public to educate them, and also teaching citizens of the developing country how to perform standard surgical and research procedures.
2. AIDS in the developing world can be combated but this combat must be tactically sound. Multiple approaches and steps including education and proper supplies should be implemented- just like they are now.
3. Yes, I could see myself involved in overseas medical care. Lives can be saved when one is at the right place at the right time. In developing nations, the place to save lives is evident, now all we have to do is go there before lives are lost.
I think it's great that so many medical students go abroad to help these people. I could definitely see myself going and helping. It also helps you become fluent in another language which is always a perk.
I never realized how serious diarrheal infections were. I knew you could get dehydrated but I didn't know that so many people die from it.
It's weird to me to think that circumcism helps prevent AIDS.
1. Diarrheal diseases, coronary heart disease, stroke, AIDS, and respiratory diseases. The doctors there have to be really creative and intelligent to be able to find solutions that are not only physically effective but also cost effective.
2. We've been sending aid to those countries, but I feel we can do so much more to help improve conditions. AIDS has severely impacted Africa and other 3rd world countries, and we all need to work together to help prevent its spread.
3. Absolutely. I feel so privileged to have grown up in a country where we have so much compared to other countries. I would really like to go abroad and help those who have been less fortunate than we have. They certainly deserve a chance at a better life.
Infectious diseases are among the most common illnesses in developing nations and doctors have to use limited resources and funds to care for the people of underdeveloped countries whose people are uneducated on illnesses. I don't know if I would ever become involved in overseas medical care but maybe. I really admire the people who do go overseas to help though.
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