Listen ONLY to an introduction and complete the notes below.

Ways globalization already affects health care:

1. …

2. Hospitals outsource record keeping to developing countries.

3.... also outsourced – helps cut costs. Predicted that over … Americans and … Britons will soon be travelling abroad for treatment. Mexico, Jordan, …, … and Thailand to be main beneficiaries. Business expected to reach … a year sometime soon. However, questions starting to be asked.

 

Work in groups. Think of three good things and of three bad things about medical tourism.

Listen to the rest of the programme. Take notes on any positive/negative sides of medical tourism they mention.

Decide if 1-6 apply to Damian, Cindy or Lily. You may choose more than one person. Listen again and check.

1. They have had some kind of treatment.

2. They are trying to address the lack of care to those at the bottom of the society.

3. They believe that some doctors are more interested in money than in their patients.

4. They are concerned about the rising number of scams.

5. They became frustrated with the health system.

6. They mention cutting edge medical techniques.

Discussion.

1. Would you ever go abroad for treatment? Why/why not? Do you know anyone who has been? How did it go?

2. Have you ever heard of operations going wrong? What happened?

3. Have you ever heard of any scams? How do they work?

NATURAL HEALTH TREATMENTS

(03:07)

How much do you know about such natural health treatments as herbs, mud baths, hot springs, sauna and massage?

Listen to people talking about natural health treatments. Which ones are they talking about? Write the treatments in the chart below. (There is one extra treatment.)

Listen again. What do people do? What are the health benefits? Complete the chart.

	Treatment	What people do	Health benefits
Finland
Thailand
North America
Asia

AN HIV / AIDS SUCCESS STORY

(06:47)

Work in pairs. Before you listen guess the meanings of the following word-combinations. Discuss your ideas in class.

· a case of HIV/AIDS

· to fight HIV/AIDS

· high-risk groups

· to have regular medical check-ups

· a sexually transmitted disease

· to extend the system of testing and treatment to HIV/AIDS

· to test all the donated blood in blood banks

· infected blood transfusions

· to cause the spread of the virus

· a strain of the AIDS virus

· to be infected with the virus

Listen to the article written by Linda Baxter about the way Senegal fought HIV / AIDS and complete the sentences below.

1. Many nations in the world have strong _________ and ______ values, but the Senegalese government decided early on that the subject of HIV/AIDS must be discussed openly.

2. The National Plan to _____ HIV/AIDS was already in operation in 1987, less than a year after the first cases ____ _________ in Senegal.

3. Its aim was ___________, _________ and __________ and it was the first such campaign in Africa.

4. Sex workers were registered and had to have regular _______ _________.

5. Anyone who was suffering from a sexually transmitted _______ was treated free of charge.

6. … it wasn't too difficult to extend the system of _______ and _________ to HIV/AIDS.

7. So, unlike many Western countries, _______ _____ transfusions never caused the spread of the virus.

8. Professor Souleymane Mboup … is most famous for his work on documenting HIV2, a strain of the AIDS _____ which is common in West Africa.

9. Many experts are afraid that this initial success will spread a false sense of ________ and people will become less careful.

 

Listen again and answer the following questions.

1. What 'success' does the United Nations recognise in Senegal?

______________________________________________________________

2. Which of these sentences is true about the Senegalese way of life?

______________________________________________________________

3. What did the religious leaders do?

______________________________________________________________

4. When did the National Plan to Fight HIV/AIDS start?

______________________________________________________________

5. Why do women need more social and economic power?

______________________________________________________________

6. How did the registration of sex workers help in the fight against HIV/AIDS?

______________________________________________________________

 

7. Who is Professor Mboup?

______________________________________________________________

8. What is the biggest danger in Senegal for the future?

______________________________________________________________

BACK PAIN

(01:08/01:01/01:38/00:56/00:37)

Listen to the conversations 1-5. Who is Bob talking to each time?

a) a friend b) a group of friends c) a doctor’s receptionist d) his colleague e) his wife

 

Answer the questions.

1. What did they suggest? 2. Whose advice does he decide to take? Why?

 

FEELING UNWELL

(00:27)