Topic Video: Health

VIDEO 1

1. What do they want to prevent, mainly? What are the difficulties they are facing?

Prevention: reproductive health (abortian and unwanted children) and AIDS. Difficulties: they’d have no money nor political commitment for treatment if they focused on that alone, they need to tackle it through prevention.

2. What three diseases are mentioned?

(Oops, four altogether, sorry) AIDS, measles, malaria and polio.

3. Who are they teaming with? To prevent what disease?

With the sports team Nets (Brooklyn Nets?), to prevent malaria --by encouraging the use of bednets.

With the Rotary International, the Center for Disease Control and the Gates Foundation -- to try to eradicate polio.

VIDEO 2 (pronunciation, please, the name of this illness is pronounced so differently in English!)

1. The first reason to make of Alzheimer's a neglected disease is the fact that it is stigmatised.

2. The Alzheimer's patient can also be invisible because it mainly affects old people in a youth-obsessed culture.

3. One reason that the caregivers aren't advocating more strongly for better attention to the disease is that the 24/7 care leaves them physically, emotionally and financially drained (what's the synonym of this word in the video?) synomym: worn out.

VIDEO 3

1. She claims that American and Western healthcase systems are entrenched in practice patterns, so introducing a new technology can be actually quite disruptive.

2. India is perfect to introduce some of these techonologies because they have an emerging economy and many increasingly successful hospitals, where patients pay for all of their healthcare.

3. Other places that might benefit from wireless technology are those where they have a mobile device but no electricity.