Wang tan(Teddy) N9075348 Reflective Dairy Week 2 Women’s Amazing Bodies: How they work, what happen when they don’t.
Choosing women’s health as my optional course is just based on my couriosity.This is because i thought this subject will talk about the general health of female and how to solve the health issues. In addition, it will be useful for me to share those essential information to my mother, sisters and my girl firend. Awkwardly, it did surprise me that the whole class is all girls except me as i showed in class. Meanwhile, it alos left me deeply expression after hearing the the lectures and stories about women. It is not only about the normal surface health problems of women. On the contrary, it perfectly discloses the truth about female based on the modern science, current society, related history, and variety culture. For instance, it is said that men’s sperm determines the sex of the generation. Back to the history, a large amount of women, queen, and prince were killed by men due to inability to having a boy baby to carry on the family line. Moreover, women has been prohibited to join some activities and jobs due to the different bodie sturcutre, which is unfair to them. Personaly, i think women can not be ngelected and they are really strong. From now on, for example, the death rates for men is higher than women at all ages and female’s lif expectancy is longer than male. As a result, we should take care of the special group,women, instead of treating them unfairly to see what can they do under different situations. This web tells how special women are.Why do women live longer than men?
Week 3 Reflective diary: Women in popular culture, advertising and the media-implications for social inequalities and women’s health.
For centuries, there has been a gap between male and female around the world. For instance, women were not allowed to have a chance to gain education back to the history in some countries and even now they still do not own this right in some part of countries. Without absorbing the new knowledge and trying new things, normal people think men are better than women by the light of the nature and finally men should be the one to decide the essential decision.Actually, it is reported that women are smarter than men. women are smarter than men In addition, men has been the main work force all the time and majority income arises from male. Due to the above reasons, it solidified men’s position at home. Then male would like to give order to female and let the women to obey everything decision made by men, especially in most east countries like China and Japan.However, i personally claim that earning money is not a big deal. This is because that things women have been doing daily can not be ignored. Let's list the housework from morning to the very night: waking up very early to prepare the breakfast for husband and children, sending kids to school, shopping some foods for making lunch, washing all the dirty cloths and clean every corner of the room, marking which day should i pay the water fee, phone fee, wi-fi, electronic fee, credit card, birthday gifts, picking up kids after school, any way you name it.Under those pressure, women can still get everything done.While men only just need to focus one thing which is to work hard to make money. However, women need to take care of men, kids, parents, and the whole family. In other words, if you pay money to get someone to do this job, it will be very expensive beyond your budget. On the contrary, i wish people can think questions by standing in other's shoes or people should swap with each other. Do not judge a book by its appearance and think a is better than b.
Closing the gap between men and women is not that easy due to different culture and complicated society.The main factors are
-body image
-subservience
-cleanliness and /or obsession with hygiene
-unrealistic portrayals of pregnancy and motherhood
-Institutionalizing male dominance and being the victim of violent interactions as ‘glamorous’
-Having only a sexual currency, which has a use-by-date by the age of 40 years old.
-Being subject to hormones, monthly cycles, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause – all of which affect women’s ability to be rational and to reason.
However, solving the problems need through internet and education to appeal people learn from history not making the same mistakes and spread the correct and positive point of view instead of negative and compulsive viewpoint. Week4 The "Right" Time to Have a Child : Changes in Reproductive Trends and Outcomes for women.
Personal oppionnion As our learning resources move foreword, the topic of the lecture is more interesting than the former one. This week is about the right time to have a child and we also discussed it during the class. Apparently, majority girls are not ready for pregnancy. Answers are variety.Some people feel that they have not meet their MR Right. Many think that they should have a child until they graduate, get a well-paid job, steady income, have a car and a house. Whereas for me, i would like to enjoy my freedom time then i will consider about having a child. For example, i will take my princess to travel around the world, adventure the mysterious world and experience the different life. Of course, the .main purpose is enjoy the world which only belongs ours.However, this is just what i thought inside. Sometime, other factors will also have impacts on it, like, culture, parents's pressure, and accidental pregnancy.It is said that people from developing countries are likely to have more children. Meanwhile, it is very dangerous for giving birth. This would be another major reason why some girl are not willing to have a baby during their life as they may hear and watch some news from media that women may die during childbirth or from complications during pregnancy. __http://worldpress.org/Africa/3834.cfm__
Personal story
Here is some interesting story i heard. when i was young, my high school teacher told us that our hair, skin, whole body are given by our parents. Thus, we should listen to them like when should get married and when should have a child. In addition, there is an old saying from ancient China that parents will get penalty if their children did not get married at 18 for girl and at 20 for boy. Fortunately, history is history. People in 21 century are willing to yearn to freedom. Moreover, some people tend to choose surrogacy and artificial insemination to avoid the pain of pregnancy. Reality facts
Under some situation, having a baby is not about the right time but depends on the situation like culture, health service, and health and medical care. As the above reported, 6 million child under 5-6 years old lose their life after birth due to not having a health care after birth and 300,000 women died during giving birth thanks to the in-advance health services. As a result, according to World Health Organization, improving the health services and health care can cut the rate of maternal and infant death to some extend.
Week 5 Changing gender roles in families: paid work, house work, and child-rising
Gender roles in family has to be changed because that is the main reason lead to the inequality to women. In most countries, it can be seen that women usually do everything such as budget, cleaning, laundry, childcare, garbage, gardening, house repair, cooking. While men do nothing except the paid work and women also need to take care of men as same as children preparing food before work and after work. Obviously, it is not fair for women to afford such burden. By the way, no one was born to do something and there is no one who is good at something but practice.
It is hardest thing to raise child, support family, and keep family in order including health, budget, and diet.
For instance, women can also get well-paid job if men can return back to home to take care of the whole family and children. In the contrast, for some family, men often just work out on time and leave everything behind to the women. Without sharing and splitting the responsibility of the house work, women have to work like a clock day and night. If i were a woman who need to do such a lot of thing as we mentioned at the beginning, my heads will blow up. I mean that taking care of one child would have killed me not along other fussy housework. Thus, we should learn how to appreciatively arrange the complicated responsibility and appeal some organization or platform to advocate that women at home should not be treated like that. I have a bold proposal that men should take care of the family and "housework" for half year after women giving childbirth. As a result, men can really feel how hard women are for contributing the family. It is like an experiential policy. Balance
However, i do hear about a case from my friend. She said her father works from Monday to Friday and her mum stays at home to take care of the whole family and her little brother and her. However, unlike other dad, her dad will do every house work after dinner. As a man, he never lets her wife to do the gardening work, repair work and some heavy job. What is more, during the weekend, her father will let her mother to sleep a bit more, he will get up earlier to prepare everything and plan to go out for a walk, hang round, or go camping like that. This is because he knows that it is not easy to take care to the family alone. I guess this could be a successful family. Week 6 "Walking into Doors” Women and Domestic Violence
What is domestic violence?
Domestic violence(DV) is violent and abuse behavior by partner . It can be emotional financial, sexual and psychological or other types of abuse.
Usually, domestic violence happens more often on mother.
It has a significantly impact on the health and well-being of women both in the immediate and longer term.
For the immediate health impacts usually includes:
physical injuries:such as cuts,scrapes and bruises
Hearing loss
vision loss
miscarriages
For the long term impacts including:
Headache
Anxiety
depression
eating disorder
pain
sleep quality
suicide
Meanwhile, it will also influence on the children and bring them permanent injury.
Personally, i would like to talk about the permanent injury on children by the domestic violence. Children are the future of the world and they are learning things very quickly. Thus, it may directly impact on the next generation if he or she is the witness of the DV. Then, she or he may make same mistakes in the future. On the other situation, he or she will feel depression, fear, and stress and always live under the shadow of fear, fear of sleep, fear of making friends, fear of talking with strangers.This may have great influence on their mental health. Moreover, sometimes children who try to stop the DV may lead them at the same situation as their mum.
Week 7 Women's Health in Same-Sex Relationships
Being a lesbian is amazing
-women look amazing
-women smell amazing
-the emotional with another women is amazing
-a women's touch feels amazing
-holding hands with a women is amazing
People always talk about freedom, but why shouldn't we support lesbian.
Lesbians need not only support but also more help and care.
Especially health, it includes physical health and mental health.
For the physical health, it has higher rates to get transmitted infections such as HPV AND HIV. That would be inside factors, including oral sex, share same sex toys,unprotected sex. On the other hand, there are lots of outside factors due to different culture and religions. For example, same sex marriage is not permitted in Australia. This may cause violence against lesbians. In addition, lesbians have been reported to smoke at higher rates than the general population. Based on this, it will increase the risk of getting smoking-related illness and even lung cancer. Moreover, lesbians also have higher rates of alcoholism than normal group.
For mental health, as we mentioned before Australian government has not release the policy about the same sex marriage. Thus, people who are lesbians or bisexual girlfriends are usually talked and insulted by against-er. They have to live under different pressure. Sometime, they tend to choose suicide to end their life because they can't bear people keep talking bad and abnormal people around them.
Recommendation:
Persuade public and private organisation to support lesbians health
Improve the awareness about the risks to health and protective factors for lesbians
Week 8 Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Women Across the Ages
It is said that women experience mental health conditions at higher rate than men.
As we mentioned before, women group has been an vulnerable group for a long term.
For young women, their mental health experience comes from conflicting with friends, fears about their body image and pressures from social.
For women with child or having a child, they have more pressure on them. This is because they have to experience converting from a woman to a mother. Then, they will face lots of challenges.Due to the suddenly change, they may feel depression, anxiety, eating disorder, and even trying to suicide.
For example, poor body image may lead women feel depression. Why can 't i be as beautiful as she is? Why can't i be suitable for that dress? Then, they are starting to be on a diet t o lose weight. As we all know, the results are eating disorders, anxiety,and low self-confidence.
For the pregnancy , the mental health may include difficulty sleeping, worry, stress, and pain. For a normal people may not easily understand the feeling. From that day, they lost their freedom and child and the family become their central.
Recommendation:
Speak up if you need any support and help
Talk to friends and family
do things that makes you happy
eat well and keep active
Week 9 The fashion industry and body image: impact on women's health
Fashion is something that normal people can not understand and explain. When something is popular people will follow.That is what fashion factory does. This is because fashion industry includes all fields about fashion such as, fashion TV show, fashion magazines, fashion shows, fashion models, advertising, movies, cartoon, clothing, and anything you can imagine.
Like Channel, Givenchy, H & M, and Zara,these brands never stop convince people what is popular recently. In fact, their clothing does look flawless and perfect on their super models. However, in reality, it is not easy for everyone to have the same body shape like model. Why people call them model? This is model is their job and they have to control their diet, keep exercise to keep a shape that suits the clothes designed by the designer. while normal women do not have to do that because their job is not a model. If a women wants to buy a clothing which is not suitable for her she may have to loose weight, be on a diet, and be crazy about exercising. However, suddenly changing the diet, quickly lose weight, and aggressive physical activity may lead to gallstones, eating disorder, stomach pain, muscle loss, dizziness etc. Like an old saying, there is no exactly the same leaves on the earth. Sometime, something is good bu not for everyone. Thus, no matter the media, poster, or magazines should stop cheating people what is called fashion and what is called beautiful.
Recommendation:
I suggest that designers should collaborate with media, magazines, advertising to design and advocate more style for different kind style of people no matter short or tall, slim or overweight, and even various body shape. Week 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Indigenous population: “Indigenous populations are defined as the distinct communities where people live within still maintain their own traditional habits and lifestyle, and cultural and political institutions ("WHO | Indigenous populations", 2017).
Indigenous Women’s health issue The 'gap' between Indigenous and Non- Indigenous Australian has been a hot topic in recent year. Based on live in urban and inner regional locations, loss of connection to land, loss of languages, loss of community, loss of identity, racism, the gap mainly addresses shorter expectancy, higher rates of infant mortality, poorer health, and lower levels of education and employment. However, the indigenous women's health is one main issue. This is because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women do not have a healthy lifestyle and surrounding, such as consumption of alcohol, cigarette, and drugs, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, overweight, high blood pressure. Appropriate fruit and vegetables is associated with better health and prevention of chronic diseases. So poor nutrition is strongly linked with over weight, obesity, CVD, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers (Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2015). Another issue is physical inactivity because sufficient activity can reduce the rate of suffering CVD, diabetes, obesity, and even depression (Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2015). However, there is only few people took part in physical activities. Besides, consuming tobacco and alcohol increases the risk of chronic diseases, including lung diseases, CVD, heart diseases, high blood pressure, and some certain cancers. From the basic need, i personally suggest that health workers should be sent to them usually to check their health condition and give some useful advice. In addition, setting a health service community there to educate and encourage them to have a healthy lifestyle, doing sufficient physical activity, having a nutritional diet, and quitting consumption of smoke, alcohol and drugs. However, those suggestions above should be supported by some program and policy this is because it costs a lot and is going to take a long term to solve the issue.
It's everyone's business to ensure everyone gets a good start in life.
Week 12 Healthy Ageing for Women
It is said that women generally have higher life expectancy than men. Why should we still focus on healthy ageing of women instead of men?
Sometime, i also feel curious about why women can live in such longer than men. I guess that would be a value question to think about and research. If we know how to last women's life expectancy we can then consider women as the example to live. Thus, i suggest we should take care of women:
give them good medical service
offer constantly body check
free vaccination for popular disease
appropriate funds for women retried
Setting community care, family care for women
Consultant service around the community
Create more healthy environment like park with free smoking and facilities for physical activity
Here is my new idea to give them the better support and help to let them live longer and healthier.
As long as the result is positive we can persuade men to live like women as possible as men can. Thus, we can increase the life expectancy for the human being .
Someone may doubt that the project may cause a large amount of money.
Don't worry! People can live longer and healthier so they may have the ability and time to create more contribution and more vulnerable things.
Like recently, Australia government addresses that Australian people should delay their retirement from 65 to 90.
In addition, interesting idea is older people who can apply for one year to travel or take a rest and then come back to work. This is because our new generation need the older generation's experience. By doing that, we will stop making the same mistakes and collaborate with different idea from different age to fight for the future.
Reflective Dairy
Week 2 Women’s Amazing Bodies: How they work, what happen when they don’t.
Choosing women’s health as my optional course is just based on my couriosity.This is because i thought this subject will talk about the general health of female and how to solve the health issues. In addition, it will be useful for me to share those essential information to my mother, sisters and my girl firend. Awkwardly, it did surprise me that the whole class is all girls except me as i showed in class. Meanwhile, it alos left me deeply expression after hearing the the lectures and stories about women. It is not only about the normal surface health problems of women. On the contrary, it perfectly discloses the truth about female based on the modern science, current society, related history, and variety culture. For instance, it is said that men’s sperm determines the sex of the generation. Back to the history, a large amount of women, queen, and prince were killed by men due to inability to having a boy baby to carry on the family line. Moreover, women has been prohibited to join some activities and jobs due to the different bodie sturcutre, which is unfair to them. Personaly, i think women can not be ngelected and they are really strong. From now on, for example, the death rates for men is higher than women at all ages and female’s lif expectancy is longer than male. As a result, we should take care of the special group,women, instead of treating them unfairly to see what can they do under different situations.
This web tells how special women are.Why do women live longer than men?
History records the mistakes men have done.
Don’t Blame Mothers for Not Giving Sons
Week 3 Reflective diary: Women in popular culture, advertising and the media-implications for social inequalities and women’s health.
For centuries, there has been a gap between male and female around the world. For instance, women were not allowed to have a chance to gain education back to the history in some countries and even now they still do not own this right in some part of countries. Without absorbing the new knowledge and trying new things, normal people think men are better than women by the light of the nature and finally men should be the one to decide the essential decision.Actually, it is reported that women are smarter than men. women are smarter than men
In addition, men has been the main work force all the time and majority income arises from male. Due to the above reasons, it solidified men’s position at home. Then male would like to give order to female and let the women to obey everything decision made by men, especially in most east countries like China and Japan.However, i personally claim that earning money is not a big deal. This is because that things women have been doing daily can not be ignored. Let's list the housework from morning to the very night: waking up very early to prepare the breakfast for husband and children, sending kids to school, shopping some foods for making lunch, washing all the dirty cloths and clean every corner of the room, marking which day should i pay the water fee, phone fee, wi-fi, electronic fee, credit card, birthday gifts, picking up kids after school, any way you name it.Under those pressure, women can still get everything done.While men only just need to focus one thing which is to work hard to make money. However, women need to take care of men, kids, parents, and the whole family. In other words, if you pay money to get someone to do this job, it will be very expensive beyond your budget. On the contrary, i wish people can think questions by standing in other's shoes or people should swap with each other. Do not judge a book by its appearance and think a is better than b.
Closing the gap between men and women is not that easy due to different culture and complicated society.The main factors are
-body image
-subservience
-cleanliness and /or obsession with hygiene
-unrealistic portrayals of pregnancy and motherhood
-Institutionalizing male dominance and being the victim of violent interactions as ‘glamorous’
-Having only a sexual currency, which has a use-by-date by the age of 40 years old.
-Being emotional, hysterical, unreliable, silly, weak willed, erratic, cunning, and sexually deviant.
-Being subject to hormones, monthly cycles, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause – all of which affect women’s ability to be rational and to reason.
However, solving the problems need through internet and education to appeal people learn from history not making the same mistakes and spread the correct and positive point of view instead of negative and compulsive viewpoint.
Week4 The "Right" Time to Have a Child : Changes in Reproductive Trends and Outcomes for women.
Personal oppionnion
As our learning resources move foreword, the topic of the lecture is more interesting than the former one. This week is about the right time to have a child and we also discussed it during the class. Apparently, majority girls are not ready for pregnancy. Answers are variety.Some people feel that they have not meet their MR Right. Many think that they should have a child until they graduate, get a well-paid job, steady income, have a car and a house. Whereas for me, i would like to enjoy my freedom time then i will consider about having a child. For example, i will take my princess to travel around the world, adventure the mysterious world and experience the different life. Of course, the .main purpose is enjoy the world which only belongs ours.However, this is just what i thought inside. Sometime, other factors will also have impacts on it, like, culture, parents's pressure, and accidental pregnancy.It is said that people from developing countries are likely to have more children. Meanwhile, it is very dangerous for giving birth. This would be another major reason why some girl are not willing to have a baby during their life as they may hear and watch some news from media that women may die during childbirth or from complications during pregnancy. __http://worldpress.org/Africa/3834.cfm__
Personal story
Here is some interesting story i heard. when i was young, my high school teacher told us that our hair, skin, whole body are given by our parents. Thus, we should listen to them like when should get married and when should have a child. In addition, there is an old saying from ancient China that parents will get penalty if their children did not get married at 18 for girl and at 20 for boy. Fortunately, history is history. People in 21 century are willing to yearn to freedom. Moreover, some people tend to choose surrogacy and artificial insemination to avoid the pain of pregnancy.
Reality facts
Under some situation, having a baby is not about the right time but depends on the situation like culture, health service, and health and medical care. As the above reported, 6 million child under 5-6 years old lose their life after birth due to not having a health care after birth and 300,000 women died during giving birth thanks to the in-advance health services. As a result, according to World Health Organization, improving the health services and health care can cut the rate of maternal and infant death to some extend.
Week 5
Changing gender roles in families: paid work, house work, and child-rising
Gender roles in family has to be changed because that is the main reason lead to the inequality to women. In most countries, it can be seen that women usually do everything such as budget, cleaning, laundry, childcare, garbage, gardening, house repair, cooking. While men do nothing except the paid work and women also need to take care of men as same as children preparing food before work and after work. Obviously, it is not fair for women to afford such burden. By the way, no one was born to do something and there is no one who is good at something but practice.
It is hardest thing to raise child, support family, and keep family in order including health, budget, and diet.
For instance, women can also get well-paid job if men can return back to home to take care of the whole family and children. In the contrast, for some family, men often just work out on time and leave everything behind to the women. Without sharing and splitting the responsibility of the house work, women have to work like a clock day and night. If i were a woman who need to do such a lot of thing as we mentioned at the beginning, my heads will blow up. I mean that taking care of one child would have killed me not along other fussy housework. Thus, we should learn how to appreciatively arrange the complicated responsibility and appeal some organization or platform to advocate that women at home should not be treated like that. I have a bold proposal that men should take care of the family and "housework" for half year after women giving childbirth. As a result, men can really feel how hard women are for contributing the family. It is like an experiential policy.
Balance
However, i do hear about a case from my friend. She said her father works from Monday to Friday and her mum stays at home to take care of the whole family and her little brother and her. However, unlike other dad, her dad will do every house work after dinner. As a man, he never lets her wife to do the gardening work, repair work and some heavy job. What is more, during the weekend, her father will let her mother to sleep a bit more, he will get up earlier to prepare everything and plan to go out for a walk, hang round, or go camping like that. This is because he knows that it is not easy to take care to the family alone. I guess this could be a successful family.
Week 6
"Walking into Doors” Women and Domestic Violence
What is domestic violence?
Domestic violence(DV) is violent and abuse behavior by partner . It can be emotional financial, sexual and psychological or other types of abuse.
Usually, domestic violence happens more often on mother.
It has a significantly impact on the health and well-being of women both in the immediate and longer term.
For the immediate health impacts usually includes:
- physical injuries:such as cuts,scrapes and bruises
- Hearing loss
- vision loss
- miscarriages
For the long term impacts including:- Headache
- Anxiety
- depression
- eating disorder
- pain
- sleep quality
- suicide
Meanwhile, it will also influence on the children and bring them permanent injury.Personally, i would like to talk about the permanent injury on children by the domestic violence. Children are the future of the world and they are learning things very quickly. Thus, it may directly impact on the next generation if he or she is the witness of the DV. Then, she or he may make same mistakes in the future. On the other situation, he or she will feel depression, fear, and stress and always live under the shadow of fear, fear of sleep, fear of making friends, fear of talking with strangers.This may have great influence on their mental health. Moreover, sometimes children who try to stop the DV may lead them at the same situation as their mum.
Week 7
Women's Health in Same-Sex Relationships
Being a lesbian is amazing
-women look amazing
-women smell amazing
-the emotional with another women is amazing
-a women's touch feels amazing
-holding hands with a women is amazing
People always talk about freedom, but why shouldn't we support lesbian.
Lesbians need not only support but also more help and care.
Especially health, it includes physical health and mental health.
For the physical health, it has higher rates to get transmitted infections such as HPV AND HIV. That would be inside factors, including oral sex, share same sex toys,unprotected sex. On the other hand, there are lots of outside factors due to different culture and religions. For example, same sex marriage is not permitted in Australia. This may cause violence against lesbians. In addition, lesbians have been reported to smoke at higher rates than the general population. Based on this, it will increase the risk of getting smoking-related illness and even lung cancer. Moreover, lesbians also have higher rates of alcoholism than normal group.
For mental health, as we mentioned before Australian government has not release the policy about the same sex marriage. Thus, people who are lesbians or bisexual girlfriends are usually talked and insulted by against-er. They have to live under different pressure. Sometime, they tend to choose suicide to end their life because they can't bear people keep talking bad and abnormal people around them.
Recommendation:
Persuade public and private organisation to support lesbians health
Improve the awareness about the risks to health and protective factors for lesbians
Week 8
Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Women Across the Ages
It is said that women experience mental health conditions at higher rate than men.
As we mentioned before, women group has been an vulnerable group for a long term.
For young women, their mental health experience comes from conflicting with friends, fears about their body image and pressures from social.
For women with child or having a child, they have more pressure on them. This is because they have to experience converting from a woman to a mother. Then, they will face lots of challenges.Due to the suddenly change, they may feel depression, anxiety, eating disorder, and even trying to suicide.
For example, poor body image may lead women feel depression. Why can 't i be as beautiful as she is? Why can't i be suitable for that dress? Then, they are starting to be on a diet t o lose weight. As we all know, the results are eating disorders, anxiety,and low self-confidence.
For the pregnancy , the mental health may include difficulty sleeping, worry, stress, and pain. For a normal people may not easily understand the feeling. From that day, they lost their freedom and child and the family become their central.
Recommendation:
Speak up if you need any support and help
Talk to friends and family
do things that makes you happy
eat well and keep active
Week 9
The fashion industry and body image: impact on women's health
Fashion is something that normal people can not understand and explain. When something is popular people will follow.That is what fashion factory does. This is because fashion industry includes all fields about fashion such as, fashion TV show, fashion magazines, fashion shows, fashion models, advertising, movies, cartoon, clothing, and anything you can imagine.
Like Channel, Givenchy, H & M, and Zara,these brands never stop convince people what is popular recently. In fact, their clothing does look flawless and perfect on their super models. However, in reality, it is not easy for everyone to have the same body shape like model. Why people call them model? This is model is their job and they have to control their diet, keep exercise to keep a shape that suits the clothes designed by the designer. while normal women do not have to do that because their job is not a model. If a women wants to buy a clothing which is not suitable for her she may have to loose weight, be on a diet, and be crazy about exercising. However, suddenly changing the diet, quickly lose weight, and aggressive physical activity may lead to gallstones, eating disorder, stomach pain, muscle loss, dizziness etc. Like an old saying, there is no exactly the same leaves on the earth. Sometime, something is good bu not for everyone. Thus, no matter the media, poster, or magazines should stop cheating people what is called fashion and what is called beautiful.
Recommendation:
I suggest that designers should collaborate with media, magazines, advertising to design and advocate more style for different kind style of people no matter short or tall, slim or overweight, and even various body shape.
Week 10
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health
Indigenous population: “Indigenous populations are defined as the distinct communities where people live within still maintain their own traditional habits and lifestyle, and cultural and political institutions ("WHO | Indigenous populations", 2017).
Indigenous Women’s health issue
The 'gap' between Indigenous and Non- Indigenous Australian has been a hot topic in recent year. Based on live in urban and inner regional locations, loss of connection to land, loss of languages, loss of community, loss of identity, racism, the gap mainly addresses shorter expectancy, higher rates of infant mortality, poorer health, and lower levels of education and employment.
However, the indigenous women's health is one main issue. This is because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women do not have a healthy lifestyle and surrounding, such as consumption of alcohol, cigarette, and drugs, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, overweight, high blood pressure.
Appropriate fruit and vegetables is associated with better health and prevention of chronic diseases. So poor nutrition is strongly linked with over
weight, obesity, CVD, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers (Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2015).
Another issue is physical inactivity because sufficient activity can reduce the rate of suffering CVD, diabetes, obesity, and even depression (Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2015). However, there is only few people took part in physical activities. Besides, consuming tobacco and alcohol increases the risk of chronic diseases, including lung diseases, CVD, heart diseases, high blood pressure, and some certain cancers.
From the basic need, i personally suggest that health workers should be sent to them usually to check their health condition and give some useful advice. In addition, setting a health service community there to educate and encourage them to have a healthy lifestyle, doing sufficient physical activity, having a nutritional diet, and quitting consumption of smoke, alcohol and drugs. However, those suggestions above should be supported by some program and policy this is because it costs a lot and is going to take a long term to solve the issue.
It's everyone's business to ensure everyone gets a good start in life.
Reference list
WHO | Indigenous populations. (2017). Who.int. Retrieved from
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Week 12
Healthy Ageing for Women
It is said that women generally have higher life expectancy than men. Why should we still focus on healthy ageing of women instead of men?
Sometime, i also feel curious about why women can live in such longer than men. I guess that would be a value question to think about and research. If we know how to last women's life expectancy we can then consider women as the example to live. Thus, i suggest we should take care of women:
Here is my new idea to give them the better support and help to let them live longer and healthier.
As long as the result is positive we can persuade men to live like women as possible as men can. Thus, we can increase the life expectancy for the human being .
Someone may doubt that the project may cause a large amount of money.
Don't worry! People can live longer and healthier so they may have the ability and time to create more contribution and more vulnerable things.
Like recently, Australia government addresses that Australian people should delay their retirement from 65 to 90.
In addition, interesting idea is older people who can apply for one year to travel or take a rest and then come back to work. This is because our new generation need the older generation's experience. By doing that, we will stop making the same mistakes and collaborate with different idea from different age to fight for the future.