ESUS 2 CW1 - Extended Research Essay Outline

ESUS

2 CW1
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Extended Research
Essay Outline

International Year 1

ESUS

2


Diploma
J

Tutor.

Peter Ryley

Victor Law (Luo Jun)

Student NO:21104648







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Essay title:

“Technological developments
over the past 30 years

have had
only

positive

effects on
people’s health”.


To what extent can this statement be justified as a view on the
impact of technology on health? Choose at least

3 examples of how technology
influences
people’s health on which to focus your research.

Introduction:

(200
-
250 words
?
)

This essay will focus on:



The background of world’s technology development over the past
30 years.



The 3 areas that technology has influences people’s health:

1.

Medical
technology

2.

Internet technology

3.

Biotechnology

The introduction will expound the relationship between technology
and health both on positive and negative side and the thesis
statement will state on the positive effects of technology.

Main body:

Section 1:

Medical technology impacts on people
’
s health.
(300
-
400

words
?
)



T
he development of medical technology in the last 30 years.



G
ive some case

examples
impact
on people
’
s health:

Positive effect:

1)

T
he drug control of infectious
diseases

(
Tuberculosis

etc.
)
.

(BBCONLINE, 2011)

2)

The application of minimally invasive surgery
.

(Fuchs, 2002)

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Negative effect:

1)

Excessive use of antibiotics caused the development of ‘Super
Bug’
.

(Foster,
2004)

2)

The development of p
lastic surgery

has some negative impact on
people
’
s health
.

(Koshima, 1989)

Section 2
: Internet

technology impacts on people
’
s health.
(300
-
400

words
?
)



T
he development of internet technology which

impacts people
’
s
health.



G
ive some case examples impact on people
’
s health:

Positive effect:

1)

T
he internet has been used into
medical
record (
health care
)
.

(Lovis, 2000)

The term electronic

patient

record (EPR) means the electronic
collection of clinical narrative and diagnostic reports specific to an
individual patient. A true EPR should allow physicians and nurses
to practice in a paperless fashion. The wide adoption of Internet
technologies should

allow truly distributed sharing of patient data
across traditional organizational barriers. Hence, the meaning of
an EPR, as a representation of documents, should be transformed
into a collaborative environment that supports workflow, enables
new care mod
els and allows secure access to distributed health
data. This paper reviews the current realization of EPRs in the
context of paper
-
based medical records. The Internet architecture
that Boston
-
based medical informatics researchers refer to as
W3
-
EMRS is de
scribed in the context of a successful
implementation of CareWeb at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
center. Finally, we describe how this Internet
-
based approach can
be extended beyond the boundaries of traditional care settings to
help evolve new collab
orative models of eHealth.

2)

T
he usage of remote medical
system (
Remote Telemedicine
Monitoring System
)
.

(Go
´
mez, 1996)

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Negative effect:

1)

T
he internet addiction is harmful to people
’
s health
,

especially
children and
teenagers
.

(Bremer, 2005)

Explain how the Internet has entered children's lives and notes
some of its potential positive and negative influences on children.
Although the Internet's effects on a given child vary based on each
child's char
acteristics and how the child uses the Internet, adults
still must have a fundamental understanding of these general
potentials. An awareness of the hazards inherent to children's
Internet use is essential for all who work with children so they can
apply p
reventive measures and help keep children safe. Whether a
child uses the Internet and how a child uses the Internet

significantly impact the Internet's influence on him or her. A child's
personality and developmental needs also inevitably modify the
Intern
et's influence on him or her.


2)

L
ong time to use
computer

increas
ing the

risk of obesity, diabetes,
heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death
.

(Rick,
2009)

Section 3:

Biotechnology

impacts on people’s health.

(Zimdahl,
2012)

(300
-
400

words
?
)



T
he development of biotechnology impacts human health
.



G
ive some case examples impact on people
’
s health:

Positive effect:

1)

The development of biotechnology
has

increase
d

food production,
and
reducing food shortage.

2)

Biotechnology
promotes the development of medical technology,
e.g. the creation of synthetic insulin is good for diabetes's
treatment
.

Negative effect:

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1)

Genetically modified organisms have drug
resistant,

living
organisms and its

products as food to enter the market, it
probably react allergy and poison to body.

2)

Clone will reduce genetic variation, and increase risk of infecting
disease, it is harmful to human survival.

Conclusion
:

(200
-
300

words?)



Summary

and
evaluate

the content in the main body.



Give some individual
future development
opinions


References:

BBCONLINE. (2011, March 19).
Tuberculosis vaccine target found
. Retrieved May
3, 2012, from BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health
-
12789022

Bre
mer, J. (2005). The Internet and Children: Advantages and Disadvantages.
Child
and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
, 405
-
428.

Foster, T. J. (2004). The Staphylococcus aureus “superbug”.
JCL
, 1693
-
1696.

Fuchs, K. H. (2002). Minimally Invasive

Surgery.
Thieme
, 154
-
159.

Go´mez, E. (1996). A telemedicine system for remote cooperative medical imaging
diagnosis.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
, 37
-
48.

Koshima, I. (1989). Inferior epigastric artery skin flaps without rectus abdominis
mu
scle.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
, 645
-
648.

Lovis, C. (2000). Electronic patient records and the impact of the Internet.
International Journal of Medical Informatics
, 77
-
83.

Rick. (2009, November 11).
5 Simple Rules to avoid SCD (Slow Computer Disea
se)
.
Retrieved May 2, 2012, from Helpmerick:
http://helpmerick.com/5
-
simple
-
rules
-
to
-
avoid
-
scd
-
slow
-
computer
-
disease.htm

Zimdahl, R. L. (2012). 8
–

Biotechnology.
Agriculture's Ethical Horizon (Second
Edition)
, 149
-
196.