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What is Health & Technology?

What is Health & Technology?. What is Health & Technology. Health is all about feeling good. There are 3 sides to health. This is called the HEALTH TRIANGLE. Social. Mental. Physical. The Health Triangle. All 3 sides of this triangle must be ‘IN PLACE’ for you to be HEALTH.

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What is Health & Technology?

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  1. What is Health & Technology?

  2. What is Health & Technology • Health is all about feeling good. • There are 3 sides to health. This is called the HEALTH TRIANGLE. • Social Mental Physical

  3. The Health Triangle • All 3 sides of this triangle must be ‘IN PLACE’ for you to be HEALTH. • That is you must have GOOD SOCIAL HEALTH, GOOD MENTAL HEALTH and GOOD PHYSICAL HEALTH. • MENTAL HEALTH – describes how you feel in your head/mind.

  4. The Health Triangle con’t • Social health describes how you interact/communicate with people. • Physical Health describes anything you do with your body. Any activity you carry out using the parts of your body. • If any 1 of these sides is removed, the triangle would collapse.

  5. Cont’d

  6. Which Side???? • Communicating Well • Coping with stress • Taking exercise • Eating well • Being happy • Achieving your full potential

  7. Measurement low tech high tech Heart beat stethoscope heart monitor Pulse rate stopwatch pulsometer Blood pressure sphygmomanometer digital blood pressure meter Breathing rate observation spirometer Body fat skin callipers tracer analysis Temperature thermometer digital thermometer Muscle strength dynamometer dynamic sensor Breath alcohol breathalyser digital Alco meter

  8. Advantages & Disadvantages of High Tech • Advantages: • Very Accurate • Quick • Disadvantages • Expensive • Harder to use & maintain

  9. Advantages & Disadvantages of Low Tech • Advantages • Cheap • Easy to use & maintain • Disadvantages • Not very accurate • Slower

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