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Jeffrey Chen

Health beat- reporting technology's impact on health care - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    In class, we talked about the impact of technology, more specifically, the improvement of health care by technology. Here is a wonderful site that depicts the beauty of technology and the miraculous effects it has on the world
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Kristen Nicole Cardon on 17 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The premise of the work is simple — get to know your potential customers as well as possible before you make a product for them. But when those customers live, say, in a mud hut in Zambia or in a tin-roofed hutong dwelling in China, when you are trying — as Nokia and just about every one of its competitors is — to design a cellphone that will sell to essentially the only people left on earth who don’t yet have one, which is to say people who are illiterate, making $4 per day or less and have no easy access to electricity, the challenges are considerable.
  • Text messaging, or S.M.S. (short message service), turns out to be a particularly cost-effective way to connect with otherwise unreachable people privately and across great distances. Public health workers in South Africa now send text messages to tuberculosis patients with reminders to take their medication. In Kenya, people can use S.M.S. to ask anonymous questions about culturally taboo subjects like AIDS, breast cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, receiving prompt answers from health experts for no charge.
  • A cellphone in the hands of an Indian fisherman who uses it to grow his business — which presumably gives him more resources to feed, clothe, educate and safeguard his family — represents a textbook case of bottom-up economic development, a way of empowering individuals by encouraging entrepreneurship
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  • For this reason, the cellphone has become a darling of the microfinance movement
  • companies like Wizzit, in South Africa, and GCash, in the Philippines, have started programs that allow customers to use their phones to store cash credits transferred from another phone or p
  • urchased through a post office, phone-kiosk operator or other licensed operator
  • Interestingly, the recent post-election violence in Kenya provided a remarkable case study for the cellphone as an instrument of both war and peace.
  • Carrying a full-featured cellphone lessens your needs for other things, including a watch, an alarm clock, a camera, video camera, home stereo, television, computer or, for that matter, a newspaper. With the advent of mobile banking, cellphones have begun to replace wallets as well.
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 17 Nov 10
     
    Chipchase has a cool job :)
Jeffrey Chen

The impact of modern opinion - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    Health care today is impacted not only by technology, but also by modern opinion. here is a brief abstract
Mike Lemon

Global Food Shortage; A Serious Threat? | Healthmad - 0 views

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  • With the global population bursting at the seams, the scarcity of rich land to grow food, and more demanding diets, food supplies are diminishing at an alarming rate.
  • The global population, which currently stands at 6.8 billion, is expected to reach 9 billion within the next 40 years. This is a lot of mouths to feed, especially in areas where population growth will be the highest; mainly Africa and India, which are already facing not only food shortages, but severe water shortages as well.
  • Mike Lemon on 28 Sep 10
     
    When I read about the Economy of Abundance, I couldn't help but remember this article I read a few weeks back. I'll be posting more on this on my blog.
Megan Stern

EBSCOhost: Radical deinstitutionalization: Rousseau versus Freud. - 0 views

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  • Megan Stern on 01 Oct 10
     
    The book from which we read the discourse by Rousseau mentioned how his ideas had a substantial influence on psychological thought. This article from the Journal of Mental Health describes how his ideas about the natural man compare with Freud's and how both apply to whether or not state mental hospitals should exist. Very interesting.
Jake Corkin

china's middle class social problems - 0 views

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  • Jake Corkin on 06 Oct 10
     
    PBS article with video. Obesity is an unfortunate side effect of china's growing middle class.
Katherine Chipman

The Story of the Triangle Fire: Part 2 - 0 views

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  • Even today, sweatshops have not disappeared in the United States. They keep attracting workers in desperate need of employment and illegal immigrants, who may be anxious to avoid involvement with governmental agencies. Recent studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor found that 67% of Los Angeles garment factories and 63% of New York garment factories violate minimum wage and overtime laws. Ninety-eight percent of Los Angeles garment factories have workplace health and safety problems serious enough to lead to severe injuries or death.
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Yikes! Horrible working conditions are not completely gone from even our society today.
Katherine Chipman

Three Mile Island | TMI 2 |Three Mile Island Accident. - 0 views

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  • In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the # 2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed.  Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents.  There were no injuries or adverse health effects from the Three Mile Island accident.  The Three Mile Island power station is near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in USA.
Jeffrey Chen

Evolution of Gatorade - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    Speak about cool evolution. Check out how modern times, we have evolution of gatorade
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