Unit 1 Question:

To What Extent Does our Health Depend on Technology?

Area of Interaction (AOI):

Health and Social Education

Significant Concept:

Our health is only as good as our health service

Introduction

For this unit, I need to provide a video or an animation to educate a certain group on the health benefits of a particular technology. My task is to make my video (or animation) interesting and entertaining to help educate a certain target audience better, and during that process I am supposed to obtain a good understanding of the unit question: to what extent does our health depend on technology?

Firstly, I have chosen percutaneous coronary intervention to be the technology that I will promote. The percutaneous coronary intervention, also known as coronary angioplasty, is a non-surgical procedure used to treat the stenotic coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary heart disease. 1 The reason that I am choosing it is because this technology has become more and more widespread today, and this does not decrease its importance at all. I think it is a good example of how our health depends on the modern technologies.

I decide to do a video rather than to do an animation. I will choose some suitable software to make this video and try to make it attractive to my target audience. I will also look for if there is any similar videos as what I am going to do, and take them as references to help me do the video promoting the technology. Furthermore, I want to choose my target audience at a certain age group, which will be the ages above forty. I decide that because the older people will have a much higher risk of getting acute myocardial infarction, therefore it is very helpful to tell them what a percutaneous coronary intervention is, and how it can benefit them.

This technology that I have chosen relates to me because one of my grandparents did the percutaneous coronary intervention some years ago, and the result shows obvious evidence of how this technology can benefit people. In this case I can say, our health depends on technology. If he did not do the percutaneous coronary intervention, he will get very high risk of having an acute myocardial infarction in the later time of his life, and he might get some other diseases that relate to the vessels. From that I can see how our health depends on modern technology, and how we are benefited from it.

This problem links to the Area of Interaction which is Health and Social Education because people need to be educated on this kind of problems. They do not trust the technologies sometimes; even the technologies will help them to keep their health much longer. Our task of this unit is to educate a certain group of people about a particular technology which can benefit them on health.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percutaneous_coronary_intervention

ResearchGuiding questions:

Q2. What is percutaneous coronary intervention?

A coronary stent is a tube placed in the coronary arteries that supply the heart, to keep the arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease. It is used in a procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention. Stents reduce chest pain and have been shown to improve survivability in the event of an acute myocardial infarction.

Q2. How can the percutaneous coronary intervention benefit people?

Q3. What are the advantages of this technology comparing with the other technologies used in the same area?

Q4. What are the disadvantages of this technology comparing with the other technologies used in the same area?

Q5. How can I explain the percutaneous coronary intervention to my target audience?

Q6. How can I make a video to describe the percutaneous coronary intervention?

Q7. Is there any similar product that I can get suggestions from?

Q8. What software should I use to make a video?

Q9. How can I use this software?

Q10. How can I make the video attractive to my target audience?