Topic Resources: Disease and Health

Local & Global Perspectives

Resource: How the Swiss health system covers everyone

Web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN9Vgz9JNUA

Resource: How Covid-19 changed our way of being permanently
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200629-which-lockdown-changes-are-here-to-stay

Resource: Around 75% of Swiss doctors trained abroad
Web Link: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sunday-papers_three-quarters-of-new-doctors-are-from-abroad/45797200

Resource: Global mistrust in vaccines
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48512923

Resource: Can cold water swimming help combat depression
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45487187

Resource: Is social media bad for you?
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns

Resource: Pollution linked to one in six deaths worldwide
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41678533

Resource: Research shows Instagram most dangerous app for young mental health
Web Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/instagram-dangerous-app-young-peoples-mental-health_uk_591b050ee4b07d5f6ba61e23

Resource: Road accidents the biggest threat to teenage health
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39920052

Resource: Smoking causes 1 in 10 deaths
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39510728

Resource: Measles outbreak in Eurpe requires vaccination programme
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39419976

Resource: Meningitis outbreak in Nigeria requires vaccination programme
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39418275

Resource: A guide to the Swiss healthcare system
Web Link: http://www.expatica.com/ch/healthcare/healthcare/Getting-healthcare-in-Switzerland_103130.html

Resource:  Film by Hans Rosling on global health concerns 2015
Web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gY5BSFPlME

 
Resource: Protein rich diet appears to be linked to cancer
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/eating-animal-protein-may-be-as-harmful-as-smoking-scientists-claim-9169335.html

Resource: Loneliness is twice as unhealthy as obesity for old people
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/16/loneliness-twice-as-unhealthy-as-obesity-older-people

Resource: Article about the danger of hidden sugar in food and an interesting reader blog debate
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/10/sugar-is-the-enemy-film-challenges-obesity-myths-fed-up?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position2

Source: Countries with highest rate of alcohol consumption
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/worlds-heaviest-drinking-countries-revealed--and-the-uk-doesnt-even-make-the-top-10-9357860.html

Source: Link to Ebola explanation – causes, symptoms, survival rate

Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/oct/22/ebola-virus-how-it-spreads-video

Source: Regular mobile phone use affects body function
Web Link: http://biology.about.com/od/Brain/fl/How-Cell-Phone-Use-Changes-Your-Body.htm

Source: Reaction to global outbreak of measles
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31622960

Source: UK imposes fines for drug abuse drivers
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31683571

Source: Research on effects of watching TV raising blood pressure levels
Web Link: http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Heart/tv-television-blood-pressure/2015/02/25/id/626873/?ns_mail_uid=79317417&ns_mail_job=1611065_03012015&s=al&dkt_nbr=nrj6ngjk

Source: Coffee helps to keep arteries clean
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31690358

Source: Is American Football too violent for our bodies?
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19549703

Source: 2.4 billion worldwide have untreated tooth decay
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31714240

Source: How America's poorest are looked after
Web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9zImCUEHaA

Source: Research on how exercise in old age will increase life expectancy
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32735723

Source: Teenagers face more anxiety in 2014 due to technological invasion
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-37158441

Source: Exercise keeps the mind sharp in over 50's
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39693462

Scenarios

Resource: How climate change will put human health at risk in future
http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e1359

Source: Child obesity rates levelling off
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31041864

Source: Risks to babies born to obese mothers
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31489101

Source: Skin tests used for early detection of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31585299

Source: Threat of disease carrying mosquitoes invading Europe as climate warms
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31971996

Source: Use of technology eroding long term memories
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34454264

Source: Zika and Ebola: A taste of things to come?
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35614569

Courses of Action & Personal Response

Resource: What you think about your levels of exercise affects your health
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180410-how-your-mindset-determines-your-health

Resource: World Innovation Summit for Health looks at ways to meet future health needs
Web Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksnKFOpUNc

Resource: Ways to stay young and healthy
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/08/how-to-live-longer-experts-guide-ageing?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-2%20%28Discover%29%20Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Position2

Resource:  Exercise best way to treat strokes and heart failure

Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/exercise-just-as-good-as-drugs-for-treating-heart-failure-and-strokes-8852099.html

Resource: WHO recommends limits to listening to loud music
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31661789

Source: Running helps man overcome bi-polar disorder
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/get-inspired/29560382

Source: The benefits of running
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/get-inspired/26960363

Resource: Children's need for play
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/give-childhood-back-to-children-if-we-want-our-offspring-to-have-happy-productive-and-moral-lives-we-must-allow-more-time-for-play-not-less-are-you-listening-gove-9054433.html 

 Source: Research on peanut allergies
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31550816

Source: Bill Gates suggests medical corps be trained to face future disease epidemics
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31956344

Source: Virtual way of predicting Alzheimer's Disease
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34607267