If You Want the Good, You Also Get the Bad

My first blog post! How exciting! As you have probably guessed, I intend to write abut women's health and technologies impacts on it, particularly how it is advancing our health status.  For the past three years I have been working towards a dual degree in English Literature and Community Health at the University of Maryland College Park. My work in the Community Health area has sparked my interest in this topic of women's health (including maternal and child health).  Representing only one of my interests, women's health is accompanied by minority health disparities, as well as drug abuse, both of which I hope I am able to expand more on within this blog.

I believe that women's health is a fitting topic for this blog because I believe that women presently have a higher life expectancy than men in part due to the technology of the day, as well as the fact that women are more likely to be tested using emerging technologies (i.e. mammograms) prior to their ailments becoming particularly life-threatening. My goal for this blog is to highlight these new technologies that are affecting lives in our generation, not only in the positive ways but also the adverse reactions that can be seen. 

Technology is a blessing as well as a curse, often times we use it in our attempts to heal, and we may only come up making the situation worst. These aspects are often given little attention, but I believe that they should be highlighted, so that women can be even more informed. Not only must the adverse reactions be acknowledges, but also the hysteria that can be caused by technology, such as news sources, and pre-screening devices. Often times with these new technologies unneeded attention is paid to the smaller aspects of our health, causing what often times proves itself to be unnecessary stress and pain. But, it's better safe than sorry. Right? That's my question for you.

With that I will end my first post, and I look forward to the upcoming semester and everything that I will get to learn, and I hope that you will enjoy reading about it, and learn something yourselves.