Outline Topic 3 Speaking English for Public Health Student

G3 – Speaking topic 3 - Outline

1. The roles which primary health care plays in improving people's health are:

• Health education helps change habits and unhealthy lifestyle.
• Control, prevent and treatment for communicable as well as non-communicable diseases for local community especially mothers  and infants
• Provide essential drugs.
• Enhancing nutrition and food supply.

In my opinion, health education is the most important role because of the reasons below:

• People need to have the basic knowledge about the disease so that they can protect themselves
• People can prevent disease before it occurs or becomes worse
• Minimize the harmful effects of the disease on human health, save the cost of health care

1. Health care for mothers and infants should improve in VN are:

• Raise awareness and improve education for people about the importance of the health of mothers and children.
• Improve women`s right by support women in the family and society; erase barrier society, culture and prevailing inequalities
• Increase nutrition for mothers and infants
• Reform the quality of health care services

I agree with the statement: “pregnancy and child birth should not only be the responsibility of the mother” because:

• The child can`t grow up comprehensive
• The government also release a medical benefit and  maternity benefit such as maternity leave,…
• Pregnant women will face a lot of economic issues as well as health risk for themselves and their infants such as:stress, mental break down amniotic fluid burst, the development of infant,…
• Pregnancies women need help and protect from their husband, parents, sister, brother to get through the hard period of pregnancy and when nurture the infants

1. I think maternal health is a serious problem in a majority of countries because:

• Maternal health is closely linked with subsequent generations.
• Not only take care of pregnancy and childbirth, but also take care of the period before and after pregnancy especially whom infected with HIV/AIDS, communicable diseases,…
• Pregnancy and childbirth are relate causes of 830 women deaths everyday.
• Improving maternal health was 1 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals adopted by the world since 2000.
• The risk of maternal mortality as well as complications  in pregnancy and childbirth is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years old, which leading death of them in developing countries.