Topic Video: Health

Hello again!

Some of you tell me that you're not commenting because you watch the videos in a rush, kind of frightened by the whole burden of the exams. About fear of the exams, I will let someone speak for me.

Take it easy, guys, you can do this!

The questions for today are related with health. This is a series of very short videos. Open questions for the first one, and gap-filling, no more than three words per gap.

I like to link you to websites with playlists that you can continue watching if you have the time and inclination, so apart from embedding the videos, here's the link. Enjoy! Key coming soon here!

VIDEO 1

1. What do they want to prevent, mainly? What are the difficulties they are facing?
2. What three diseases are mentioned?
3. Who are they teaming with? To prevent what disease?

 


VIDEO 2 (pronunciation, please, the name of this illness is pronounced so differently in English!)

1. The first reason to make of Alzheimer's a ___________________ is the fact that it is stigmatised.
2. The Alzheimer's patient can also be invisible because it mainly affects old people in a _____________ culture.
3. One reason that the caregivers aren't advocating more strongly for better attention to the disease is that the 24/7 care leaves them ___________________ , ___________________  and ___________________  drained (what's the synonym of this word in the video?)

VIDEO 3

1. She claims that American and Western healthcase systems are entrenched in practice patterns, so introducing a new technology can be actually  ___________________ .
2. India is perfect to introduce some of these techonologies because they have an ___________________  and many increasingly successful hospitals, where patients pay for all of their healthcare.
3. Other places that might benefit from wireless technology are those where they have ___________________  but no electricity.