3. Discuss the following questions.
What is an allergy and what allergic reactions can you name?
Why are allergies on the rise?
In what way did our lifestyle change and how did it affect an increase in allergies?
BILL OF HEALTH
(04:15)
1. Listen to the recording and complete the sentences.
1. Some American doctors do not want to ______ because they cannot afford the insurance policies.
2. The British Government is putting aside nearly ______ in order to cover compensation claims.
3. Adrian Bowe will receive compensation which could be _____ of pounds.
4. Critics say that more _____ are inevitable.
5. It is _____ for doctors to make accurate diagnosis all the time.
6. Online databases of symptoms and diseases can cause healthy people to start _____ nothing.
2. Listen again and answer the following questions.
1. Do doctors in Britain need private insurance?
2. What health problems did Adrian Bowe have and what was the result of his visit to a doctor?
3. How many cases of medical mistakes have been registered in Britain?
4. Why do critics say that even more mistakes are likely to be made?
5. What are advantages and disadvantages of online databases of symptoms?
3. Give the English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
Приступ мигрени, инсульт, инвалид, врачебная халатность, заслуживать (компенсацию), единичный случай, плохо себя чувствовать, терапевт.
4. Discussion.
Do you think the doctors should be punished if they make mistakes? Why/why not?
MEDICAL TOURISM
(04:10)
1. You are going to hear a radio programme about the rise of medical tourism. Before you listen, read the FACTS below, then discuss these questions.
What surprises you most? Why?
Is there anything you don’t find surprising? Why?
Why do you think medical tourism is such a huge growth area?
THE FACTS
The global medical tourism industry is worth $1billion a year.
Around 50 million US residents – over 15% of the population – have no health care or insurance plan at all.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of US citizens cross the border to Mexico for more affordable hospital treatment.
India provides perhaps the most hi-tech services. Among other things, it specializes in cancer therapy and heart surgery.
A hip replacement in Malaysia costs around ₤2,000, compared to around ₤10,000 in the UK (if you pay for it privately).
Last year, more than 50% of all Austrian dental patients were treated in Hungary.
Singapore attracts a quarter of a million overseas patients a year and ranks among the top six countries in the world for overall health care.
Thailand is one of the most popular destinations in the world for those seeking cosmetic surgery.
2. Listen only to an introduction and complete the notes below.
Ways globalization already affects health care:
1. …
2. Hospitals outsource record keeping to developing countries.
3. ... also outsourced – helps cut costs. Predicted that over … Americans and … Britons will soon be travelling abroad for treatment. Mexico, Jordan, …, … and Thailand to be main beneficiaries. Business expected to reach … a year sometime soon. However, questions starting to be asked.
3. Work in groups. Think of three good things and of three bad things about medical tourism.
4. Listen to the rest of the programme. Take notes on any positive/negative sides of medical tourism they mention.
5. Decide if 1-6 apply to Damian, Cindy or Lily. You may choose more than one person. Listen again and check.
1. They have had some kind of treatment.
2. They are trying to address the lack of care to those at the bottom of the society.
3. They believe that some doctors are more interested in money than in their patients.
4. They are concerned about the rising number of scams.
5. They became frustrated with the health system.
6. They mention cutting edge medical techniques.
6. Discussion.
1. Would you ever go abroad for treatment? Why/why not? Do you know anyone who has been? How did it go?
2. Have you ever heard of operations going wrong? What happened?
3. Have you ever heard of any scams? How do they work?
NATURAL HEALTH TREATMENTS
(03:07)
1. How much do you know about such natural health treatments as herbs, mud baths, hot springs, sauna and massage?
2. Listen to people talking about natural health treatments. Which ones are they talking about? Write the treatments in the chart below. (There is one extra treatment.)
2. Listen again. What do people do? What are the health benefits? Complete the chart.
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AN HIV / AIDS SUCCESS STORY
(06:47)
1. Work in pairs. Before you listen guess the meanings of the following word-combinations. Discuss your ideas in class.
a case of HIV/AIDS
to fight HIV/AIDS
high-risk groups
to have regular medical check-ups
a sexually transmitted disease
to extend the system of testing and treatment to HIV/AIDS
to test all the donated blood in blood banks
infected blood transfusions
to cause the spread of the virus
a strain of the AIDS virus
to be infected with the virus
2. Listen to the article written by Linda Baxter about the way Senegal fought HIV / AIDS and complete the sentences below.
Many nations in the world have strong _________ and ______ values, but the Senegalese government decided early on that the subject of HIV/AIDS must be discussed openly.
The National Plan to _____ HIV/AIDS was already in operation in 1987, less than a year after the first cases ____ _________ in Senegal.
Its aim was ___________, _________ and __________ and it was the first such campaign in Africa.
Sex workers were registered and had to have regular _______ _________.
Anyone who was suffering from a sexually transmitted _______ was treated free of charge.
… it wasn't too difficult to extend the system of _______ and _________ to HIV/AIDS.
So, unlike many Western countries, _______ _____ transfusions never caused the spread of the virus.
Professor Souleymane Mboup … is most famous for his work on documenting HIV2, a strain of the AIDS _____ which is common in West Africa.
Many experts are afraid that this initial success will spread a false sense of ________ and people will become less careful.