How Does Technology Affect Human Health
The essentiality of improving healthcare is limitless. As such, scientists are continuously striving to employ the use of technologies to enhance the quality of human health. Technologies has affected multiple aspects of the healthcare industry. Not only that it is used to create new medicines, ways of diagnosing, and treating diseases; but it has also drastically improved the efficiency of those processes. The aim of this essay is to further elaborate the advantages of technologies on human health. Firstly, technologies have allowed pharmacists to come up with new medicines. According to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), there were 22 new approved medicines in 2016, and 20 as of May 2017. All of these medicines were invented in laboratories,
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Life expectancy has improved from 50-60 years to 70-80 years. The physical wellbeing of human is a result of better healthcare, which is impacted greatly by technologies. In short, technologies have increased the human lifespan. However, longer lifespan is not only attributed to the physical health of humans, but also their emotional wellbeing. In other words, people who are happy are healthier. In this perspective, technologies that are not related to the medical field can also be said to have a positive impact on human’s health. Entertainment media like television, computers, and smartphones keep people entertained and relaxed after their stressful working hours; or plastic surgery and dentistry make people feel good about their appearance. These are all the emotional benefits that technologies can bring, and thus also contributes to a better life for …show more content…
In a medical perspective, technologies have allowed doctors to extract information from the patients that were previously impossible to access (diagnostic technologies). But the overall impact of information conveying is much bigger. Communication and collaboration between medical practitioners are made possible with technologies. It allows scientists to share research studies, to test each other’s’ works, and to continuously build upon each other. It also allows medical facilities, such as hospitals to improve their working efficiencies with IT systems, which purpose is not only to store and process information but more importantly to learn insights from these pieces of information to improve healthcare
Life expectancy has improved from 50-60 years to 70-80 years. The physical wellbeing of human is a result of better healthcare, which is impacted greatly by technologies. In short, technologies have increased the human lifespan. However, longer lifespan is not only attributed to the physical health of humans, but also their emotional wellbeing. In other words, people who are happy are healthier. In this perspective, technologies that are not related to the medical field can also be said to have a positive impact on human’s health. Entertainment media like television, computers, and smartphones keep people entertained and relaxed after their stressful working hours; or plastic surgery and dentistry make people feel good about their appearance. These are all the emotional benefits that technologies can bring, and thus also contributes to a better life for …show more content…
In a medical perspective, technologies have allowed doctors to extract information from the patients that were previously impossible to access (diagnostic technologies). But the overall impact of information conveying is much bigger. Communication and collaboration between medical practitioners are made possible with technologies. It allows scientists to share research studies, to test each other’s’ works, and to continuously build upon each other. It also allows medical facilities, such as hospitals to improve their working efficiencies with IT systems, which purpose is not only to store and process information but more importantly to learn insights from these pieces of information to improve healthcare