Health care – sloh

Health care – sloh

1, How do people care about their health?

2, What do people do when they are ill?

3, What does a doctor do when a patient comes to see him/her?

4, What kinds of epidemics killed people in the past?

5, What diseases cannot be cured at all?

6, How can people protect themselves not to be infected with AIDS?

1, More and more people know that good health means a longer and happier life. Nowadays, people care about their health more than they did in the past.They eat healthier food, practice different kinds of sports and try to avoid stressful situations.

2, When we are ill, we usually see a doctor (general practitioner). Sometimes, we need to have an appointment with a specialist.

3, The doctor examines our body, asks about the symptoms and usually prescribe some medication on a prescription. Then, we go to the pharmacy to get our antibiotics, painkillers or vitamins. When the illness is too serious, the patient is taken to the hospital to be operated.Basic healt care is free in Slovakia for all people who pay their insurance monthly.

4, In the past, diseases, such as flu, tuberculosis or scarlet fever, killed many people. Nowadays, there exist vaccines against most of them.

5, There are diseases which we have problems to cure or cannot cure at all yet. Cancer is one of them. More than 3,6 milion people are infected with AIDS.

6, Many countries in the world spend a lot of money on public campaigns and advertisements which warn of the dangers. Publicity advices heterosexuals to use a condom and have one sexual partner only.