Wednesday, May 16, 2012

CHAPTER 8

VIGNETTE
WESTERN CAPE STRIVING TO ELIMINATE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

1. How important is access to ICT in children's education?
Answer:

             An ICT- Information Communication Technology, provides learning to the children through internet, provides easily access more information for children who that are in level of their learning but some has a high IQ level which might children have explore new things or learned new things even the outside world.But there are times may violated without any guidance of the adults when they are using technology.  One more thing why children necessary to have an ICT in education to learned and can easily catch up the lesson since children like entertainment and they might interest to study through entertaining children such as educational movies.


2. What are the barriers that stand in the way of universal access to ICT to everyone who wants it?
Answer:
            There are some counties that might not able to reach technologies due to some reasons. The region is poor, few of the population has PC but slightly to access to the internet.Most of the region of that country cannot afford ICT for education. Technology might so expensive and some other countries are not their obligations to buy technology or to use technology due to financial problem or their economy cannot afford to implement ICT.

CASE STUDY 3
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES CREATE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN HEALTH CARE

1. Can you provide examples that either refute or confirm the idea that a gap exists between the kinds of healthcare services available to the wealthy and the poor in the United States?
Answer:

These is the research that I gathered from the sites.
SOURCE:  http://www.weegy.com/?ConversationId=9771CF9C
           One key opportunity is to integrate clinical service delivery with community prevention in order to reduce demand for resources and services; improve health, safety, [ and equity outcomes; and provide medical providers with skills and strategies to change the social circumstances that shape the health of their patients. Prevention Institute outlines an approach that community health centers can take to promote community health even as they deliver high quality medical services to individuals. ]

2. Should healthcare organizations make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved services that only the wealthy can afford?
Answer:
            Telemedicine employs modern telecommunication and information technologies to provide medical care to people who live far away from healthcare providers. I prefer to disagree of that services which only wealthy can afford.  In every people aimed to live life long but poor people live life as they can afford to live. Healthcare organizations must have also right to taking care of their health by using telemedicine of which that can afford. Poor are pity hence poors trying to survive in every illness they encountered, in every seasons they've met of which they can get sick due to lack of basic needs.

3. What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? What situation might not lend themselves to telemedicine solutions?
Answer:

            Source:  http://www.denvergov.org/EmployeeAssistance/AgingandElderCareResources/AgingandElderCareResources44/tabid/386093/Default.aspx


       Although the advantages of telemedicine are many, there are two major drawbacks. The first is cost. Many of these monitoring and assessment systems require a high level of technical sophistication and a tremendous investment in technology. The second issue is safety. Nothing can substitute for a real-life, physical exam by a doctor who is in the same room as the patient. Doctors and nurses can evaluate, diagnose, treat and manage a variety of illnesses and problems over the phone, Internet or video, but in some cases the traditional way is still the best. Talk to a doctor or health care provider about whether or not telemedicine is recommended in the case of your patient or elderly relative. 
       As for me, the situation that might not get lend to the telemedicine solution is that all people might not getting worse their illness and they might choose the that were they can afford rather than this.

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