Editing Marks, Rizal, Debate, Health & Medical Careers

• This document contains study notes on editing marks, figures of speech, information about Jose Rizal, debate, health, and medical careers.

Editing Marks

• The editing marks are symbols used to indicate changes or corrections to a text.
• Delete: Removes extra letters or unnecessary words.
• Para: Adds a new paragraph.
• Stet: Indicates that a correction or alteration should be ignored.
• Transpose: Reorders a letter or a word that is misplaced.
• Space: Adds a space.
• Delete and close up: Removes and closes up the space.
• Close up: Removes extra spaces.
• Spell out: Indicates that an abbreviation should be fully spelled out.
• Period: Converts a comma into a period.
• Comma: Adds a comma.
• Apostrophe: Adds an apostrophe.
• Quotation marks: Adds quotation marks.
• Parens: Indicates parentheses.
• Em dash: A longer dash, sometimes not automatically converted by word processors.
• Lowercase: Changes letters to lowercase.
• Capitalize: Capitalizes letters.
• Superscript: Raises text above the baseline.
• Subscript: Lowers text below the baseline.
• Italics: Italicizes text.
• Delete italic or bold or underline: Removes formatting.
• Bold: Bolds text.
• Flush left: Aligns text to the left margin.
• Flush right: Aligns text to the right margin.
• Center: Centers text.
• Align: Aligns text.

Figures of Speech

• Simile: Compares using "like" and "as."
• Metaphor: Compares without using "like" and "as."
• Metonymy: Uses a related word or words to replace the actual word.
• Personification: Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.
• Hyperbole: Overly exaggerates a description.
• Paradox: Pairs two direct opposites as if both could be true.
• Oxymoron: Pairs two contradicting words together.
• Allusion: A reference to an important historical or mythical person or event.

About Jose Rizal

• Full Name: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Allonso Realonda.
• Birth Date: June 19, 1861.
• Death Date: December 30, 1896.
• Father: Francisco Mercado.
• Mother: Teodora Allonso.
• Two Novels: El filibusterismo & Noli me Tangere.

Debate

• Debate: Structured argument between two opposing sides on a specific topic.
• Two sides: Proposition (affirmative) and Opposition (negative).
• Essential qualities of a good debater: Content, style, strategy.
• Oxford Debate: Each participant speaks once, except the first speaker, who provides a rebuttal at the end.
• Cambridge Debate: Each participant speaks twice, once to present their argument and once for rebuttal.

Health Careers

• Importance of Health Careers: Growing due to increased health consciousness and healthcare-related needs.
• Health Career Pathways: Therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, and support services.
  • Therapeutic Services:
    • Direct patient care by medical specialists, nurses, therapists, and dentists.
  • Diagnostic Services:
    • Involves technology for diagnosis by lab technologists, ultrasound/X-ray technicians, and radiologists.
  • Health Informatics:
    • Documentation, medical record management, and hospital communication systems.
    • Roles include health information coders, data analysts, and healthcare administrators.
  • Support Services:
    • Maintaining sanitary and clean environments in hospitals and therapeutic facilities.
• Public Health: Addresses health concerns and risks within communities.

Primary Tasks of Public Health

• Assess and monitor community health to identify at-risk groups.
• Formulate public policies in collaboration with community leaders to solve health issues.
• Ensure all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care through health promotion and disease prevention services.
• Career Opportunities in Public Health: Public health practice, health education, epidemiology, environmental, international, maternal and child health, and health services administration.
• Personal Health Care: Companionship and assistance, especially in-demand for the elderly.
• Maternal and Child Care: Focuses on women's health during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, aiming to reduce illnesses and death.
  • Family Planning and Preconception Care: Screening and health education.
  • Prenatal Care: Early detection of potential complications during pregnancy.
  • Postnatal Care: Recovery from childbirth, newborn care, and breastfeeding.
• Nursing: Professionals who maintain the health and quality of life for patients and communities, working with medical teams.
• Dental Health: Involves maintaining healthy teeth, gums, and tongue through expertise and services, including surgeries and basic procedures.
• Community Health: Assistance is given to local communities who then receive services from social service systems and the government.
• Nutrition and Dietetics: Designing nutrition therapies for disease protection and specific health issues by dietitians.
• Health Education: Educating people about health aspects, like physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health.
• Responsibilities of Health Workers: Support, health services, counseling, delivering health information, and home visits to those in need.

Medical and Allied Health Emergency Services (EMS):

• Anesthesiologists: Administration of anesthesia like in surgery
• Cardiologists: Coronary artery disease; heart disease
• Epidemiologists: Investigates the cause and source of disease heartbreak.
• Immunologist: Diseases for the immune system
• Neonatologist: Doctors for Newborns
• Nephrologist: Kidney diseases
• Neurologist: Nervous System
• Neurosurgeon: Surgery of the brain and nervous system
• Obstetrician: Pregnancy, labor, childbirth
• Ophthalmologist: Eye disease
• Orthopedist: Skeletal system
• Radiologist: Use of X-rays
• Plastic Surgeon: Use of materials to rebuild tissues.
• Psychiatrist: Mental illnesses
• Rheumatologist: Disease of connective tissues, joints, tendons and muscles