1st Conference on Audivisual Communication and Health #videosysalud

Saturday again, we turn our review to English.

Today we want to give you leverage to release the information available in English from the 1st Conference on Audivisual Communication and Health #videosysalud

On October the 22nd of 2011 a group of innovators will gather in Madrid.

This conference is another step in continuing education. It works with hybrid networks, non teaching education and through the generation of multiformat contents. It looks forward the benefit of both patients and professionals. Heading to a people centered Medicine.

The challange is to learn the use of an audiovisual language which can be understood by anyone.

Why?:

1. Because we have the intuition that is vital to look for new languages, new ways og telling things.
2. Because we belive as health professionals in a responsable transmition of messages to society.
3. Because our time and society is audiovisual. We need to learn to use image resides words.
4. Becuse we have the talent and the resources to do it.

The conference will be openly transmited by video streaming in http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jornada-vídeos-y-salud and twited with the hashtag #videosysalud

All the informacion here: http://videosysalud.blogspot.com/p/english.html

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Healthcare Big Brother.

Saturday again, we turn our review to English.

But I think we're going to change strategy, because if you write and read English can help us to practice, there is nothing like a video to practice listening.

So from now we look for an interesting video and we will give a short introduction. You don't need more, after all, it's Saturday and there to rest.

This time, we have found this video on the blog "Health Is Social" and once seen the video, invite us to reflect whether it can be applied to Healthcare.



What do you think? How do you feel about this idea?

And remember that you have more options to enjoy English with us:

• My twitter list Practise English.
• My paper.ly Practise English.

Enjoy the weekend!


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Pumping Iron.

Saturday's post.

This time we bring you a study that relates Pumping Iron with smoking cessation.

Pumping Iron Helps Smokers Quit Without Weight Gain: Study

The researchers found that three months of pumping iron seemed to help curb cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms, while lessening the weight gain that sometimes accompanies quitting. Overall, men and women who completed the resistance training program were twice as likely to kick the habit as smokers who didn't lift weights.

I'm not an expert, but I understand that any form of exercise, not just lifting weights can help you quit smoking.

And yet, if they end the article by saying this:

However, despite "promising" results, the study authors noted that more research is needed on resistance training before it can be considered a clinical treatment for smoking cessation.

The song of the week: Iron Man - Black Sabath



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Doctors or business managers?

Saturday again and that means post in English.

We have often advocated here needs to have good managers, to have professional managers in our hospitals and health centers ... but never thought I would have this discussion in English.

The reason is this article in the health section of The New York Times: Should Hospitals Be Run by Doctors?

The conventional wisdom is that doctors should focus on patient care, and managers with a business or administrative background are better suited to running the day-to-day operations of a hospital. Among the nearly 6,500 hospitals in the United States, only 235 are run by physician administrators, according to a 2009 study in the journal Academic Medicine.

But now new research suggests that having a doctor in charge at the top is connected to overall better patient care and a better hospital. The study found that overall hospital quality scores were about 25 percent higher when doctors ran the hospital, compared with other hospitals. For cancer care, doctor-run hospitals posted scores 33 percent higher.

The thing is clear, though I would go further. Here we have never discussed whether hospitals should be run by medical doctors or business managers...

Here in SobreviviRRHHé! we do not want politicians to lead us without adequate preparation for managing a hospital or health center.

 

Spin Doctors – What Time Is It?

 

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It´s breakfast time.

Welcome to a new section in SobreviviRRHHé!

I'll try to write a weekly post in English, every Saturday, no cheating, using the Google Translator to a minimun.

Don't be too cruel with me, please!

The idea is to get a history in English, primarily related to health, and do as we do the rest of the week on the blog, make our comments in a funny way.

And how could it be otherwise, we begin with a story that sent us a few days ago our very good friend @manyez: Rethinking the Big Breakfast.

Many dieters believe that eating a big breakfast will help prevent overeating at lunch and dinner. But new research suggests that how much or little you eat for breakfast doesn’t change your eating at other meals.

As we have already bundled, years and years thinking that breakfast is the most important meal, thinking that you have to eat a good breakfast, a light lunch and dinner in moderation, and now it goes and it doesn't matter..

From now on, I personally I'm going to eat a big breakfast, a big lunch and a big dinner...

Why not? Because I'm worth it, jajaja...

Supertramp – Breakfast In America




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Follow me on Saturday: My favorite things.

Welcome to the English version of SobreviviRRHHé! In Spanish RRHH stands for "Recursos Humanos" now traslated to the HR of "Human Resources".

Welcome to our very special summary of the week, a very fun way to explain to our foreign visitors what we were discussing this week.

Monday [24/01/2010]: These Romans are crazy?
The managing director of the Navarra Health Service has sent a resolution to the College of Pharmacists, the Directorate of Administration and Organization, Directorate of Primary Care and the Legal Service of Navarra Health Service and the General Secretariat Technical Assistance and Health Services Department of Health, which announced that, given the large number of recipes from other communities who are billed by pharmacies of municipalities of Navarra in recent years, establishing the illegality of their funding, except in cases of displaced patients or bystanders..
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Tuesday [25/01/2010]: Bad habits.
40% of women who are trying for a baby consumes 20% alcohol and smoking, despite the risks that may involve such practices as a nutritional study, which found" significant deficiencies "in the power of future mothers.
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Wednesday [26/01/2010]: The flight of the queen.
The flight of the queen is an irresistible novel about the strength that comes from the dark side of desire. Among Camargo, the powerful head of the leading newspaper in Buenos Aires, and Reina Remis, a young journalist to half her age, comes a passion that leads to a dangerous game of obsessions. The erotic intrigue and suspense populate this story of domination, corruption and instruments of power, to draw a final unpredictable ultimate consequence of the ambition and the present and the past of the protagonist.
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Thursday [27/01/2010]: Go for nothing, is nonsense.
What is clear is that if an old Spanish go to the doctor ten times while a Swedish only going two is that either because he was not served properly or whether because there was no reason for the visit by the patient ... we can only say that if there is going to go, but go for nothing is nonsense.
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Friday [21/01/2010]: Wet raining.
Yesterday we spoke with a humorous tone, about the problems of primary care, too much red tape and lack of consultation times that every professional has for each of their patients.
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The song of the week:
Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things

Follow me on Saturday: Do I like a dude.

First of all, I know it's not Saturday but yesterday was the birthday of a good friend, and I wanted to dedicate her a very special Sunday with... 

Welcome to the English version of SobreviviRRHHé! In Spanish RRHH stands for "Recursos Humanos" now traslated to the HR of "Human Resources".

Welcome to our very special summary of the week, a very fun way to explain to our foreign visitors what we were discussing this week.

Monday [17/01/2010]: I invite you and you pay.
Most regional government agree that public funds have no money to fund smoking cessation drugs, in crisis, although the health minister, Leire Pajin, had been raised at some point in the portfolio include health system services.
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Tuesday [18/01/2010]: Captain Obvious: teenagers and depression.
A study of more than 5,600 adolescents in Australia found that those with a more optimistic view of themselves and the world around them were less likely to have symptoms of depression in the following year.
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Wednesday [19/01/2010]: I count on your smile.
A team from Israel found that among 219 women treated with IVF, the chance of becoming pregnant increased in which they had laughed with a "clown doctor" professional immediately after the completion of the transfer of embryos into the uterus.
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Thursday [20/01/2010]: Nocturnal and perfidy.
Computer problems and how good it is to have friends in twitter to solve them... no mather the time!
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Friday [21/01/2010]: Captain Obvious: ads that advertise.
In an investigation involving more than 2,100 public school students in Germany, 277 young people who had never smoked before you start smoking after seeing ads snuff. The more ads they saw were 46 percent more likely to try smoking than those who had not seen any ads, the study found..
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The song of the week:
Jessie J – Do It Like A Dude

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