Health And Medicine Since 1948
By Emily Conway
Contents
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Important words to know
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Medicine
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Health
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Interview with my dad
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Timeline
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Did you know?
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Conclusion
Important
words to know.
There are some important
words to know:-
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Drugs – another word for
medicine.
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Doctor – the person that
you go to when you are ill.
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Nurse – like a doctor who
works in hospitals.
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Mid wife – the person
that delivers babies.
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Time line – a line/s
which shows pictures and text on what has happened during history.
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Conclusion – what you
have learnt during the experiment or project.
Medicine
Different medicines got
invented in 1948 and onwards. Most medicines are pain killers which help you to
relieve pain. Some drugs are harmful, though some aren’t harmful. You have
tablets which you put in your mouth and drink some drink and swallow the tablet
while you drink the drink. Or you have dissolvable tablets which you put in a
drink, let it dissolve then drink the drink. You also have medicines like Calpol
that young children have. You put a certain amount of Calpol on a spoon and then
the child drinks it. When you go to the doctor’s you might get a prescription,
which is drugs that help you get better. Sometimes you have to stay on that
medicine for your whole life.
Health
After World War II in 1948
the National Health Service (NHS) was established providing free health care for
all. Once the NHS was introduced, it did prove to be popular with most people.
95% of all of the medical profession joined the NHS. The NHS proved to be too
popular, as it quickly found that its resources were being used up. From its
earliest days, the NHS seemed to be short of money. Annual sums put aside for
treatment such as dental surgery and glasses were quickly used up. The 22
million put aside to pay for free spectacles over the first nine months of the
NHS went in six weeks. The government estimated that the NHS would cost £140
million a year by 1950. By 1950 the NHS was costing £358 million a year!
Interview
with my dad.
Q:
What type of health treatment has changed since you were born?
A:
When I was born lots
of babies were born at home.
Q:
Were you born at home?
A:
Yes, because my mum
was healthy and there were no problems during her pregnancy, so it was not
considered necessary to go to hospital. My elder sister was also born at home.
Q:
Was there a doctor at
home with your mum when you were born?
A:
No, there wasn’t a
doctor at the house, but the mid wife came to deliver me.
Q:
How has technology
changed in hospitals?
A:
When I was young they
didn’t have CT scanners and MRI scanners to help the diagnosis of lots of
different diseases and injuries. Another major change is the use of cameras to
look inside people’s bodies. This allows the doctors to perform some operations
without having to cut large holes in to the patient. This is known as
laparoscopic surgery.
Q:
How has eye care
changed over the years?
A:
Nowadays the optician
has a computerised machine which tests your vision automatically. When I was
small if you needed glasses you got on the National Health had horrible plastic
frames which nobody liked. Now you can get nice looking frames in all sorts of
colours and designs.
Q:
Has medicine changed
since you were born?
A:
Yes, because there is
now much greater understanding of the way the body works, it has been possible
to develop many new drugs to treat illness which used to be thought untreatable.
Unfortunately some of these medicines are very expensive, and so may not be
available on the National Health Services.
Timeline
Did you know?
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Nowadays more people are
overweight.
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The oldest person in the
world called Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) from France was 122 years old and
164 days when she died!
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The best way to burn off
calories is to play squash; it uses 844 calories per hour.
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Most people die of heart
disease; approximately 16,733,000 people a year.
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There are about
57,029,000 deaths a year, world wide!
Conclusion
Health and medicine has
changed since 1948. There are more medicines to save people from diseases that
could kill you. There are better hospital instruments to help the doctors and
nurses to perform operations and to see what, if anything, is wrong with
someone. Technology has changed as well, because there are now more modern
machines in the hospitals so everything is sometimes easier. Health is changed,
because there are more gyms and while it was World War II there weren’t any gyms
about because the bombs kept going off. It wasn’t safe to keep going out with
the risk of getting bombed where there was no shelter.
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