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Technology Health Risks and Prevention Assignment Overview
Understanding how to properly use your technology devices to prevent short and long term injury and illness is crucial. This is especially true if you plan on making a career in a field where you will be using technology for long periods of time. In this assignment we will dig deeper into the risks to physical, behavioral, and social health of working with technology and finding ways to prevent them in order to prolong quality of life. In this assignment you will create a paper discussing a health problem and listing things you can do to prevent this health problem.
Technology Health Risks and Prevention Assignment Instructions
To complete this assignment follow the steps below.
Read section 6.1 in the eText, specifically the pages with the following titles.
Discuss Computer Safety and Health Risks
Determine the Risks to Computer Security and Safety
Understand the Risks to Physical, Behavioral, and Social Health
Read and Watch the following article and video to give you more information on different health problems computer use can cause.
MicroHealth-Top 10 Computer Related Health ProblemsLinks to an external site.
10 Harmful Effects of Technology on Your Body and Their RemediesLinks to an external site.
You can research other sites and sources that you find interesting, as well.
Choose one physical, behavioral, or social health problem that prolonged computer use can cause based on the research you did in the previous steps.
This can be something personal that you have experienced or it can be something you found interesting.
Next, find at least one remedy anyone can do to prevent and/or reduce further damage caused by the problem your choose in the previous step.
Better Health Channel – Computer-related injuriesLinks to an external site.
Live and LearnLinks to an external site.
You can research other sites and sources that you find interesting, as well.
Now that you have a Problem and at least one Remedy to that problem in mind you will use this as your starting point to creating your paper. To begin your paper follow the steps below.
Use Word, PDF or Google Docs write your paper.
If you use Word or PDF submit it as an attachment in this assignment.
If you use Google Docs submit the share link in the URL field. Make sure to give me Editing permission.
Write your name, class and date first.
Then write the title of your paper, which should be the name of the health problem you chose.
Find two images online.
One that resembles the health problem.
One that resembles the remedy or remedies.
Under the title insert the first image and under the image write 250 words about the problem. What is it? How is it caused? What are some symptoms?
Under the first image and 250 words you will insert your second image and under the second image write 250 words about the remedy or remedies. What does the remedy or remedies involve? How does it help? Why does it help?
Technology Health Risks and Prevention Assignment Example
View this sample paper to understand the structure I want the paper to be in. You are not required to use the same injury in the sample.
