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Public Health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting  health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities and individuals. However, as individuals we must take an active role in maintaining our health by leading healthy lifestyles and making sure that we are using proper nutrition daily.

Nutrition is the science that studies how people eat and how eating affects their health and performance. This includes foods or food components that cause diseases or deteriorate health such as eating too many calories. This is a major contributing factor to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Personal health depends partially on the social structure of one’s life.

Healthy eating is a choice but not much of a choice for those who simply lack the knowledge, awareness and clear understanding about healthy cooking. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capacities. Health represents the amount of damage a character can take before death.

Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, supplements, herbs and vitamins like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks.

Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of

mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health research builds primarily on the basic sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics as well as a variety of multidisciplinary fields, i.e. medical sociology.  Health care is further the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of health through the services offered by the medical, dental, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations.

Health care in Venezuela is probably the most extensive and given the country’s fortunes in oil wealth, expenditure has recently increased greatly, starting with mass vaccinations under the Plan Bolivar 2000. While health care in Africa is usually non existent or highly limited and under resourced.

Here in the United States health inspectors are conducting fewer inspections of nursing homes, restaurants and adult day care sites because of budget constraints and the inability to train and keep inspectors and officials. For this reason it is imperative that you take control of your health care issues and become active in resolving them.

Health system problems aggravated a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe 10 December 2008 — A

widespread cholera outbreak and inadequate access to safe drinking water and hygiene are

threatening the well being of thousands of Zimbabweans.

Because of the on-going importance of health — customers are never more than a single click away from ordering products online and referring their friends and associates who are ready to join a membership program.

Customers spread around the world can be attracted by a health business and take notice. You will see that other people will also be interested in marketing a vitamin or natural health business by noticing that others will easily sign up underneath you.

Online store owners, entrepreneurs and small businesses who e-sell their own products find that they have money rolling into their accounts in no time soon after taking action because shoppers readily kick into high-gear.

There are many resources to help you and your family stay healthy. Products classified as dietary supplements are not required to meet any Food and Drug Administration standards which makes it easy to promote a natural health business.

Making extra income can’t get much easier in the booming health industry especially when you don’t have to look after any products or logistics. Health and wellness spending is continuing as companies seek new marketing channels for their advertisements and employers look to control healthcare spending.

Volunteer Society Nepal aims to mobilize medical students and volunteers with health backgrounds in rural places where people do not have access to any health institutes, as the government is not able to provide adequate health services. On the other hand, rural Nepali people are often reluctant to go to the hospital and other modern health services because of orthodox thinking, superstition and other cultural influences. Some of the Nepali people may visit a witchdoctor when they are suffering from an illness. Therefore, it is possible that they die without getting the benefit of modern medication. VSN is playing an active role in linking people in rural areas with volunteers from the west and health volunteers within the country who are really eager to serve the many unprivileged people in Nepal.

Volunteers will mainly be involved in following three activities:-

(1) Working in the Health Post/ Clinic/ Hospital in Nepal  Medical/ Premedical  students will be assigned to clinics, sub-health posts, hospitals and other health institutions. These are either run by the government or a local community in both rural and urban settings. Health students will work with health assistants, doctors, nurses or some combination within. Your daily work will include helping to perform the health staffs’ job. It will also involve researches of common diseases and health issues. Students will get the opportunity to learn about the basic medication system in Nepal. The work will be daily, 3 to 5 hours, 6 days a week.

The Health institutions provide health services to the poor and marginalized people in the community and volunteers will observe and practice following activities:

• Health Post Based Activities

1. General daily clinic

2. MCH

• Family planning (Temporary devices)

• Immunization

• Ante-natal and post –natal clinics

• Health education

• Health post based normal deliveries

• Immunization

3. Pharmacy

4. Simple surgeries

5. Community oral health Clinic

6. Nutritional Rehabilitation center

7. Health Post based nutrition follow up

8. TB Clinic

1. Maternal and Child Health Care

• Immunization

• Under 5 health screening

• Antenatal care

• Postnatal care

• Normal home and health post based delivery

• Identification and referral of high risk pregnancy

2. Family Planning Services

• DMPA

• COC Pills

• Norplant

• Condom distribution

3. General OPD Services

• General clinic

• Pharmacy

• Dressing and injection

• Minor surgery

4. TB dots clinic

• Identification

• Counseling

• Treatment

• Follow up

(2) Health Camps in Nepal

Part of volunteer’s program will be deployment to work in health camps for a predetermined amount of time: 1 day to 3 days. (Volunteers will work with their Nepali experience medical personnel. The students’ responsibilities are to distribute medicine and consult with citizens about health-care.

Through this Health camp, poor and marginalized people in the community will be provided general health services and students will observe and practice following activities:

Community Health Camp

• Examining patients

• Providing general medicines

• Identification and referral if needed

• Immunization

• Education on oral hygiene

• DMPA, COC Pills, Condom distribution

• Heath post based follow up

(3) Health and Sanitation Awareness

Volunteers will be mainly involved in teaching about proper health-care and sanitation and will work with youth clubs, women groups and other local organizations. In addition, they will provide HIV/Aids awareness, First-Aid information to the local people in rural villages and thereby providing them with a practical life-skill. Similar educational lectures will be given to children, by Groups, in government schools, lasting from several days to a week in duration. Again, the Groups’ major focus will be to educate and mobilize community groups who can then pass the information onto the community at large.

Following activities will be organized

Community and School Based health program Activities

• HIV/Aids awareness

• Community health education activities

• School health education activities

• Anti smoking program

• Oral health education

• Reproduction health and sexual education

• First aid training and FA box distribution

Others

Apart from, learning and experiencing health related issue, students will get a maximum benefit:-

• Developing work experience in a marginal society and third world country

• Developing their personal and life skills

• Developing a deep understanding of the Nepali people, their language, and their various cultures

• Making a contribution to the ongoing development process of Nepal

• Enjoying such opportunities as taking part in local festivals, weddings, farming, and visiting different areas in local villagers

Visit at http://www.vsnepal.org

For details and reservation please contact at vsnnepal@ntc.net.np Application instructions:

To make reservation, please forward

+A brief resume

+A photo scanned small sized

+A cover letter mentioning the program of choice, duration of stay and arrival date

To

Mr. Sugandha Shrestha

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Volunteer Society Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Mailing Address:-

Volunteer Society Nepal

P.O.Box : 8975 E.P.C. : 1589

Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone No:

(+977)1-2040353

(+977) 9851009342

How useful are graphic organizers such as mind maps and Venn diagrams to brainstorming?

There are those who equate brainstorming to coming up with a series of terrific ideas that help us get something done or some problem solved, and on the levels of simplicity, there is truth to that. In some circles, the concept of brainstorming is also referred to as idea management or creative thinking.

Yet, brainstorming, especially when done in a group setting, is much more precise and organized. There are tools and techniques that have been developed to help minimize a random brainstorming approach, and instead develop it into a precise technique. These tools help an individual or a group to focus on a problem, and then very deliberately develop creative solutions to that problem.

Some of the more common tools used in the brainstorming process are graphic organizers like mind maps and Venn diagrams. These tools are most useful when the brainstorming process is being embarked upon by a group.

Chief among the brainstorming graphic organizers are the mind map and Venn Diagram. There are also the KWL tables, which although this graphic organizer is often used as a creative tool in a learning environment. The KWL Table for example is very often used by instructors KWL is an acronym for What We Know.

The mind map helps one to see how the key word radiates out from a centralized point. The mind map is a diagram that one draws by placing the key word in the center and then mapping out radially all the words, ideas, tasks or other items that are linked to that key word or key idea. It can help the brainstorming group visualize, structure, or classify the ideas. It can show how one idea feeds into another, etc.

Concept mapping is structurally different in that the key concept is placed at the top of a chart and many other concepts are added below. It can often help to stimulate learning in the sciences and other subjects. It is also used to represent the expert knowledge of teams for business or even government projects.

Then there is the Venn diagram, which has been in existence since 1880. The Venn diagram is named after its inventor, John Venn. Venn diagrams are used quite extensively in a number of fields to help show all the possible relations between groups of things. They can be used in as complex of settings as logic, statistics, set theory and probability, or as simple a setting as a brainstorming session to determine and visualize possible relationships within that specific creative problem solving arena.

As the web develops and grows, it is now possible to locate templates or research possible tools to buy or create these various graphic organizers. For example, there are a number of websites where one can download mind mapping and concept mapping charts, as well as Venn Diagram templates. It is possible to make these items on one’s own computer, but many have found the ease in downloading these various graphic organizers to be much swifter and definitely more efficient especially when you take into consideration that their primary goal is to use the mind maps and Venn diagrams in their brainstorming not have to first create those graphic organizers to that they can finally get on to the higher goal of brainstorming.

By: Stephen Watson