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Chapter 8 Health care in the digital usage

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  • To understand the dangers and effects on physical and mental health from using the internet and digital media.
  • To understand diseases that occur due to the use of computers and electronic devices in the digital age
  • To understand ways to prevent and reduce impacts when working with computers and electronic equipment
  • To understand the mental symptoms of yourself and those close to you caused by using the internet and online.

Objective

https://community.greythr.com/t/do-you-know-world-health-day/8507

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How important is it to have good physical and mental health in the digital age?

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We need to understand dangers and health effects from various aspects, whether it be physical health, mental health, diseases that occur, including relationships and effects on oneself. You must understand the use of the internet and digital media to prevent, avoid, reduce impacts, and provide basic treatment methods. Both for yourself and those close to you so that you can live happily in the digital age.

How to live happily in the digital age?

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  • Group of diseases caused by work
  • Having an inappropriate work environment
  • Sit and work all the time and there is no movement of the body
  • Causes muscle inflammation and pain in various organs.

Office Syndrome

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Prevention of Office Syndrome

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Preventing Office Syndrome While Working

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Here’s some tips on setting up a proper workspace:

  • Position the top of monitor in front of your eye line.
  • Make sure your head is stacked directly above your neck and not leaning forward towards the monitor. This prevents slouching and stress on your neck muscles.
  • Relax your shoulders!
  • Keep your forearms parallel to the floor.
  • Elbows bent to 90-100 degrees angle, creating a “L-shape”.
  • Sit up straight and rest on the back rest of your chair. Use a rolled-up towel behind the lower back curve to provide support if needed.
  • Maintain a small gap between the knees and the chair.
  • Knees at the same level or slightly lower than the hips.
  • Keep feet flat on the floor or use a footrest to elevate if necessary.
  • Maintain an equal weight on both legs and feet if in a standing position.
  • Change your position or take a movement break every 20 – 30 minutes!

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How can office syndrome be treated?

Currently, office syndrome is treated using various methods. That is just a treatment to relieve pain.

  • It is a treatment for muscle inflammation or fibrosis in the muscles.
  • The best way to prevent it is to change work behavior.
  • Get enough rest, reduce stress, and exercise regularly.
  • This will help reduce the occurrence of various injuries that will permanently impair quality of life and work efficiency.

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Exercise clip to prevent Office Syndrome

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"Nomophoba”: mobile phone addiction

In the digital world where everything is convenient, chatting with friends, reading articles, following social movements or even ordering food is often done through a smartphone. It makes mobile phones seem like the 33rd organ of many people. It is a tool for living, searching for information and knowledge, and killing time during free time. Even though smartphones are a technology that can answer almost every life need in the digital age, everything has benefits and disadvantages if we use them excessively. Therefore, if you are addicted to your smartphone, it will lead to the Nomophobia disease.

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Nomophobia, or smartphone addiction.

Nomophobia is the fear of living without a cell phone. Whether it's forgetting to carry your cell phone with you, your cell phone's battery running out, or being in an area with no cell signal. It makes people with this condition feel restless, irritable, stressed, sweating, trembling, or nauseous.

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Nomophobia treatment

Limit the time you use your mobile phone.

As a first step, you should keep a record of the amount of time you use your cell phone for each activity. This may be divided into the amount of time spent talking on the phone. Replying to messages Using online media such as Facebook, Instagram or using other functions on your mobile phone and calculating how much time you spend on each activity within 1 week. Then try to gradually reduce the time you use your mobile phone for each activity slowly. Start with the least important activities. For example, it might take around 10 hours/week to play mobile games. Then reduce the time to only 9 hours/week and gradually reduce the game time further in the following weeks, etc.

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Nomophobia treatment

Limit the time you use your mobile phone.

In addition, notifications from various applications such as Line or Facebook. It may be something that encourages you to pick up your mobile phone and use it more often, so when you need to concentrate, such as while studying, working, driving, or when you need privacy. You should turn off notifications on their phones or delete distracting applications that they don't need at the time. However, if this feels too much of a hassle, Try switching to Airplane Mode. Or turn off your mobile phone instead

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Nomophobia treatment

Talk to the people around you more.

Mobile phones are a technology that makes it easier for us to communicate with one another. Some people are so addicted to talking with friends through various applications on their mobile phones that they become addicted to their mobile phones without realizing it. Although talking with friends online can help relieve loneliness when you are alone, using your mobile phone all the time while people around you are talking is inappropriate behavior. Therefore, you should refrain from using your mobile phone while talking with others because in addition to helping reduce the symptoms of mobile phone addiction. Becoming more attentive to those around you also has a positive effect on your relationships.

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Sleep Texting

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  • #The negative effects of sleep texting.😨❌
    • Causing you to not sleep well or not sleep well Resulting in not getting enough rest. Affects the body's functioning systems, making the body weak. Causes accumulated stress, leading to depression, risk of obesity, nightmares, nomophobia, affecting studying and working. It may also affect relationships with those around you.

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    • #Treatment ◀️❤️
    • Decide to turn off your mobile phone, mute it, or turn off your internet connection before going to bed. It will help you stay away from sleep texting and restore a healthy, full sleep. Wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and bright. The stronger the body, the better the health.

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