Controversial issue: Levonorgestrel

Hello everybody, today my post is about a controversial theme: the use of emergency contraception.
Fist I want to say something related with activity, I thing the idea that a learned person give us a talk in english about a topic directly related with our career is great.
Now Doctor Valenzuela´s talk was mainly of levonorgestrel and their effects in the ovulatory cycle. It is a complicated topic, because all contraception´s drugs always involves opinions related with the abortion, so there are view points of Churches, Scientists, etc.
According Dr. Valenzuuela,s talk Levonorgestrel acts as a contraceptive method through impede the conception by prohibit union between oocyte and sperm, preventing ovulation happen or impede implantation happen.
In my view point life begins when implantation happen, because the most eggs lost in this stage so it is an important event that define the pregnancy´s viability. So if this pill only has effect before that eggs are viable, it is not abortive.
The Levonorgestrel can use even 72 hours after an unprotected sex to achieve the desired effects.
I as a future midwife must have knowledge about conception and contraception, because I think that the percentage of women that had unprotected sex is high, so is their option request to this method and I must give all the options.

I hope that you enjoy my post, and I think contraception is a theme that must be investigated before recommending to our users.

See you in class, bye

SICKO...imposing documentary film!

Hello everybody!! In this oportunity my post is about a documentary film called SICKO.
First I want to say that the activity related with movie was good, overcoat the idea to listen all time people speak in english. Furthermore the health topic mentioned is so relevance for the future as midwife or as health professional.
But I don´t like that movie didn´t have subtitles in english and at first, I feel a little confused because I don´t know movie´s logic.
I saw the French Health System part, in this country it is based on the principle of solidarity, guarantying financial protection against life´s contingencies for everyone.
The health is free for everybody, it is funded by government (in 65%) and the employers (in 35%). Mainly the funds depends of taxes that are high; then the French Life is very expensive for example food and houses are expensive.
The Chilean Health System is mixed, depends of public and private funds. But the most important difference is that quality is better in the private area, and quality is bad in the public area. If you want associate with private system only need money and steady job, but if you want associate with public system you are classified according to you needs. Now if you want to have free health must be indigent or receive a minimun salary and ONLY in public health centres.
To improve this situation should raise taxes.

I hope that you enjoy my post!

See you in class!

My prefer book...

Hello everybody! This time my post is about my favourite book, it is "Supervivientes de la muerte: Más allá de esta vida, Testimonio de los que han vuelto" (original title: "Beyond This Life") ; the author is Dr. Hans Holzer, printed in Spain on 1979. It have eleven chapters and 171 pages that mix personal situations of patients who reported to the doctor and scientific basis of these.

I like this book, because it describe true stories relate with people who were in the threshold between life and death; and even dead people who comunicate with their loved ones to advise or to discover situations that need to be discovered. Furthermore the book is based in various topics about paranormal, then you can read quickly.

I read "Supervivientes de la muerte" in summer holidays, but I don´t remember the year; usually I read it at night and I finished the book in 2 days, because I don´t stop to read it.

A cousin recommended this book, but she is fan of the paranormal things, I think she has fifty books.

The most interesting things are the many real cases about dead people who communicate with their families for goodbye, to resolve legal matters unfinished, to protect their families, etc.

I recommend this book, because it explain things that sometimes you don´t understand and also teach you about matters a little more spiritual.

I hope that you enjoy my post...

See you in class!

The english class!

Hello everybody; today my post is about: The experience in the English class.

The english programme was formulated to four levels: starter, beginner, pre-intermediate and intermediate. I began is the first level, I am of the starter generation!

The english class is a good experience to me, it help me to discover many aspect in the languages; like increase my vocabulary, I have more security to write and understand conversations in english of course, etc.

The 2009 year the english class has a benefits, it was that the class were in north faculty; but now the clas place is in occident faculty, so I must travel in bus, subway and walk; all this is very tired. It could cause this year I was with less energy and a little less motivate.

The oral tests are good, because it is a instance to put our senses in the full expression and of this way you yes or yes must understand the conversation or interaction. Sometimes I think that the oral interaction should be more clear or realist, as a tv programme, an interview, a movie, etc.

I think that the Blog is a very good idea, but the methodology isn´t the better. For example with the blog I can write more quickly, I have a lot of vocabulary, I improve the gramatically mistakes, I can understand the long papers and search, etc. But the time destinated to do the blog is little in the last time, because there are many things to do; and the instance to correct it doesn´t good, and I think that I need a special class about gramatically.

I hope that you enjoy my post!

See you soon...

My pretty cats! =)

Hi everybody!!

First I want to say: free blog are the best, because it is a instance to write about issues that you consider important.
In this oportunity my post is about my cats! I have two cats: Bianca and Sussi! But really only Bianca is my cat, because Sussi is my cat and of my brother; take care both.

Bianca is the major cat, it is 3 years aproximatly, Bainca is a big animal their weight is 3 to 4 kilos, it is grey, brown and black. Bianca is very glutton it eat their food (one medium cup); and if can it eat the Sussi´s food (other one medium cup) and the Luna´s food (it is the dog of my brother). Sometimes when my mother cooks vegetables Bianca try to eat them, for example it like the broccoli , chard, pumpkin and it loves green beans. I think that my cat called Bianca is a little fat and I try to decrease their weight, but I can´t control my cat when I´m not at my house.

Sussi is the little cat (it is 1 one year), my brother found it out of our house and we started give food to the cat; but one day we saw some girls to mistreat and wet kitten, after that my brother and I decided adopt the kitten and now my brother is responsable of their feeding and health. It is white, grey and brown . It is very playful and disordely. But the bad is that Sussi is glutton too, although it is slim.

I choose write about my cats because I love them and I consider my cats as my "daugthers".
My boyfriend upset me because he hate to Bianca, he call it COW ( for the fat characteristic).

I hope that you enjoy my post!!

See you in class! Cheers!

"Save the last dance"

Hello everybody!

Today my post is about my favourite movie, it is "Save the last dance" (the name of this movie in spanish is "Pasión y baile").

This film is of the romantic drama genre, was written by Duane Adler and directed by Thomas Carter. It was produced by MTV Films and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001.

The main theme of the film is the teenage interracial relationship between Sara (Julia Stiles) and Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), where he helps the main character (Sara) to come back to take her ballet classes, that she had left.

The whole story begins when Sara was in an audition to be admitted to study at Julliard (it is a performing arts conservatory) and invited her mother to attend, but the mother in her attempt to arrive on time for the daughter´s presentation suffers a terrible car accident and she dies.
After her mother´s death , Sara should go live with her father and with him she had little communication. He plays the trumpet in a jazz band and lives in a predominantly black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. At her new high school, Sara is one of only a handful of white girls. She soon befriends Chenille (Kerry Washington), she is the Derek´s sister. Chenille invites to Sara a hip hop club, here Sara knows better to Derek and begin a friendship. As time passes Derek begins to teach hip hop dancing to Sara and and encourages to resume her ballet classes, now they have a romantic relationship.

Their relationship becomes complicated by the envy that generates Sara, for Derek's girlfriend, because he is one of the best students in that school and one of the few who has a good future. Despite this he helps Sara to prepare her contemporary dance audition for Julliard.

The other part of this movie you must see, because is a really good movie!! I like it, because is a mixture of romanticism and dance; and I love the dance in all their aspect.

I hope that you enjoy my post!

See you soon!

"an apple a day keep the doctor away"

Hello everybody! Today mi post is about the prevention and education in three different levels... individuals, families and the community. First is important to mencioned the prevention´s mean: "Prevention are all the actions and techniques to achieve that people don´t sick or that sick people will not aggravate their situation". Furthermore the prevention can be primordial, primary, secondary and tertiary.
The primordial prevention: Prevent the emergence and consolidation of patterns of social, economic and cultural development is known to contribute to raising the risk of disease.
The primary prevention: decrease the incidence of disease by controlling causes and risk factors.
The secondary prevention: Cure patients and reduce the most serious consequences of the disease through early diagnosis and prompt treatment.
The tertiary prevention: Reduces progression or complications of established disease. Also is important for therapy and social rehabilitation of sick people.
Prevention, in any level, is important because it is always best to avoid the disease or exposure to risk factors that may cause a deterioration in our health, to be sick and feel physically and psychologically bad about it. We as health professionals have a major role in the prevention of disease in the general population, and the best way to achieve this is through education.
How to prevent at the individual level? We like health professional could to give information about healthy lifestyles query times of our patients, delivering leaflets on nutrition, food and sports, in due course lead to specialists according to the risk of the user, etc.
How to prevent at the family level? We like health professional could provide holistic care based on a health team that not only focus on the health of the person they care for the health of the family of the user, educate the mother who is in charge in most cases of family nutrition, etc.
How to prevent at the community level? We like health professional could to promote public policies that intended to increase advertising on healthy lifestyles on television, radio, internet, etc.
We as Midwives can to promote the prevention during antenatal care, by workshops at the level of health service which is part of the control of the users to attend these, to educational interventions in communities with less access to health center, organize workshops or lectures at colleges and high schools about reproductive health, etc.

I hope that you enjoy my post!

See you soon!