Health+CSWE+2+2010

9th of August Good morning everyone. The email address for your thank you letters to Helen Bramich is htb@netspace.net.au

See the spelling words below! Well there's a spelling test this afternoon so make sure you learn them! //** News, news, news! **// //** The finished 'podwalk' that has been made by our students is now on the wiki information page. Listen to CSWE 2 students (Mamy, Suryia, Sisay, Maria and Liliana) tell about the Royal Hobart Hospital under Health! They sound fantastic. **//

30/07/'10 Here are a list of spelling words for this week. You will need to know the meaning of these words to understand the reading for this week.

**obtain ****additional available dispatch further ****ensure access required **


 * __First__ you will need to read the information about the Tasmanian Ambulance Service on the Wiki information page. **
 * //__Then__// copy the following questions to a word document. **
 * //__Next__// answer the questions and email your answers to me. **
 * //__When__// you email use the attatchment command. **

Where is the Tasmanian Ambulance service headquarters?

What number do you ring if there is a big problem and someone is ill?

How many ambulances are there in Tasmania?

Are there different types of ambulance vehicles for different occasions?

What is a paramedic? What do they do? What sort of training do they have?

How do ambulance officers respond to people who have accidents in the bush, the mountains or isolated areas?

Can women be ambulance officers?

What happens when you ring 000?

Which other services do the ambulance officers work with?

What kind of person would make a good ambulance paramedic?

19/07/'10 Here is a website that has lots of good information about health and has good vocabulary. Some of the vocabulary is not necessary for everyday English. I have included it for people who want to go on to study medicine or nursing. [|Medical terms]

Click on the Red Cross link below and do the quiz on giving blood Red Cross

Read this Essay. To answer questions you must copy to your own page. To copy to your page, highlight what you want and press __**Ctrl C**__. Open your Wiki page and go to //**edit this page**//. You can now press **//__Ctrl V__//** and the essay and questions will open in your page.

**__ How Australia can help to overcome the world health crisis. __** The world health crisis is partly due to the shortage of health workers in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia. This problem is made worse by many nations, like Australia, taking health workers from these countries to make up for not enough workers in their own health systems. It is true that Australia is facing a shortage of hospital staff. The government is trying to increase the number of health workers in remote Australia to help overworked doctors and nurses in these areas. In order to do this Australia is recruitong health workers from overseas. The 2008 G8 conference asked that countries find local solutions to their health needs. The World Health Organisation is concerned about taking overseas doctors from poorer nations and many people believe that developed countries have always taken doctors from overseas and now must do something in return. Money given to eliminate AIDS, TB or malaria must include training and maintaining local health workers. According to a report during the last G8 meeting, Japan has promised ‘to fund the training of 100,000 health workers in Africa over the next five years.’ (//Peter Deutschmann, The Age//) Australia needs to subsidise countries in this region in a similar way. If Australia and other developed countries train enough health workers for their own communities and also support training health workers in developing countries, the health crisis will not continue to grow out of control. Governments of these countries must act immediately.

//What is the problem discussed in this essay?//

//How can it be resolved?//

//Write down words that you do not understand and lookup their meaning in a dictionary, either on line or using a dictionary from the library.//

//Write a sentence that includes the new word. You may need more than one sentence. Show yur teacher or a class mate.//

Writing advise here [|website]