ri

aspiring physician scientist

About

i work in IT at a genomic research institute and am trying to get into med school

reviewing for the nmat for march 2021 + oct 2021

besides those i also play the sax, ukulele, and am learning violin and Filipino Sign Language ✨✨

bs computer science grad 🌻 25

health for all

"In 1977, the world health assembly decided that the major social goal of governments and WHO should be the attainment by all people of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. In 1981, the Assembly unanimously adopted a Global Strategy for “Health for All” by the Year 2000. Health for All means that resources for health are evenly distributed and that essential health care is accessible to everyone. It also means that health begins in several settings (at home, in schools, and at the workplace) and that people use better approaches for preventing illness and alleviating unavoidable disease and disability. Health for All means that people recognize that ill-health is not inevitable and that they can shape their own lives and the lives of their families, free from the avoidable burden of disease"
"Health for all", SpringerLink

"“Health for all” means that health is to be brought within reach of everyone in a given country. And by “health” is meant a personal state of well-being, not just the availability of health services—a state of health that enables a person to lead a socially and economically productive life. “Health for all” implies the removal of the obstacles to health—that is to say, the elimination of malnutrition, ignorance, contaminated drinking-water, and unhygienic housing—quite as much as it does the solution of purely medical problems such as a lack of doctors, hospital beds, drugs and vaccines."
The meaning of "Health for all by the year 2000", Halfdan Mahler

Science for the people

"Science for the people" is the idea that science shouldn't just be for academics, and for the benefit of those who are more privileged in society, but should be for everyone, especially those who could benefit from it most. "Science for the people" is the equitable distribution of the products, benefits, and practice of science as a discipline and industry.

"Over time, efforts should be made to break the stereotype that science and technology are just for nerds. If we are to use science to improve lives, then the people must be able to understand it in a way that helps them make informed and better decisions – a science for the people."
Bridging the gap between weather advisories and the public, Maguindayao

"Science has to be visible in the media to those who need it…So like farmers, consumers in rural areas. We only have it in the newspapers, broadsheets. But what about the tabloids, they don’t cover it at all, right? So there’s a knowledge gap. Who has access to the broadsheets? Just the AB class, and so the CDE are left behind."
Challenges of communicating science: perspectives from the Philippines, Navarro & McKinnon