Thursday, May 17, 2012

CHAPTER 8

VIGNETTE “Western Cape Striving To Eliminate the Digital Divide”

 
1. How important is access to ICT in children’s education?

             Children are less likely to be intimidated by, or afraid of ICT than are most adults. They often approach ICT with keenness and curiosity and thus, may quickly become adept at operating the technology. Therefore, if managed effectively, it may be seen as a suitable and motivating tool for teaching and learning


2. What are the barriers that stand in the way of universal access to ICT for everyone 
     who wants it?
             To be educated and make it as a good example to be assure that children also adopt knowledge as how they grow, developing the skills and finding a way to be progress in learning.

Case Study
1. Can you provide examples that either refute or confirm the idea that a gap exists between the kinds of healthcare services available to the wealthy and poor in the United States?

             Inequality in economic resources is a natural but not altogether attractive feature of a free society. [ As health care becomes an ever larger share of the economy, we will have no choice but to struggle with the questions of how far we should allow such inequality to extend and what restrictions on our liberty we should endure in the name of fairness."At its root, the lack of health care for all in America is fundamentally a moral issue. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have some form of universal health care (defined as a basic guarantee of health care to all of its citizens). While other countries have declared health care to be a basic right, the United States treats health care as a privilege, only available to those who can afford it... Americans purport to believe in equal opportunity. Yet, in the current situation, those who do not have health care are at risk for financial ruin and poorer health, both of which disadvantage them in society and thereby do not give them equal opportunity...


2. Should healthcare organizations make major investments in telemedicine to provide improved services that only the wealthy can afford?

            They should be if they can handle various issues regards to developing telemedicine, and somehow only few certain people can afford it that may lead to closure of investment.

3. What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? What situations might not lend themselves to telemedicine solutions?

           Its easy part of those patients who monitor their health situation it’s somehow applicable to decrease their annual patient cost but for those people who can’t afford telemedicine might have gap to their healthcare.

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