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Introduction介绍
近年来，用于健康目的的数字媒体在世界上越来越流行，这改变了人们对健康问题的认识（Chretien，2011年）。此外，它是人们健康的一个重要进展。利用各种社会媒体提供最新、最有用的健康信息，为患者提供方便。这样的社会数字媒体可以在很大程度上改善人们的健康状况，因为现代人总是忙于工作，几乎没有时间去看医生或健身专家。一些卫生数字媒体为人们在日常生活中自理提供了便利，有助于社会和全世界的繁荣发展。
In recent years, digital media for health purposes have become more and more popular in the world, which have changed the knowledge of health issues of human beings(Chretien, 2011). Moreover, it is an important progression in people’s health. Various social media have been used to provide the newest and the most helpful information on health, and then it could be supported to the patients conveniently. Such social digital medias can improve people’s health conditions to some great degree, for modern people are always busy with their work and have little time to see a doctor or a fitness professional. Some digital media for health purposes have provided convenience to human beings to take care of themselves in daily lives, which can contribute to the prosperous development of the society and the whole world.
所有能够提供健康信息的网站都吸引了许多人的注意，这些网站改变了人们相互交流的方式（Choudhry，2002年）。随着互联网社区的建设，信息共享和信息传递的速度有了很大的提高，从长远来看，这有利于普通人的健康。
All the websites that can offer health information have attracted the attention of many people, and the websites have changed the way people communicate with each other(Choudhry, 2002). With the building of the community on the Internet, the speed of sharing information and delivering message has increased to a great extent, which can benefit the health of common people in the long run.
webmd是一个有助于分享健康信息和支持人们日常生活中的健康的网站。更重要的是，在某种程度上，这个平台可以向普通人提供健康新闻，支持社区对人们的总体健康非常有益（Bender，2011年）。WebMD的信息来源是可信的，因为随着时间的推移，它已经得到了政府的认可。
The WebMD is one website that can be useful to share information on health and support people’s fitness in daily life. What is more, to some degree, this platform can offer common people with the health news, and the supportive communities are quite beneficial to the general health of people (Bender, 2011). The information source of the WebMD can be credible, for it has been recognized by the government with the time passing by.
随着技术的飞速发展和信息时代的到来，网络医学在全国人民的总体健康状况中也起着至关重要的作用。本文将分析WebMD与现代人健康的关系（Choudhry，2002）。此外，本论文的主要焦点是webmd网站如何改变对健康问题的认知，以及它如何改变与健身教练和健康的关系。With the rapid progression of technique and the information age, the WebMD also plays an essential role in the general health conditions of people in the whole country. This paper will analyze the relationship between WebMD and modern people’s health(Choudhry, 2002). Additionally, the main focus of the thesis is how the WebMD website has altered the perception of the health problems and the way it can alter the relations with the fitness instructors and health as well.
1. The perceptions of people on health issues and the digital media
The digital media have affected the perceptions of human beings on the health issues dramatically during these years. In the past, the health information was hard to get, which has caused great inconvenience to common people. Only wealthy people and the people with high social status could enjoy the best medical care when they got ill long time ago, but nowadays, with the development of the information age, the health information can support the patients dramatically (Chretien, 2011). Peer-to-peer healthcare has occurred, which can be seen as a source for the support and the information of the patients. In a survey that has been conducted in 2011, 1/5 of the adult online users in America who have chronic medical conditions, such as cancer and diabetes, began to surf the internet to search others who also suffer the same medical conditions (Choudhry, 2002). The patients with the chronic illness, sometimes, are sad and may find themselves meaningless to live in the world, which is more dreadful than the sickness itself. However, nowadays, more and more patients employ the internet as the best tool to share the individual clinical information, get the emotional support and ask for the management guidance for diabetes from other groups on Facebook or some forums. Patients can employ the Internet, such as the WebMD, to learn more knowledge of the health, which have changed people’s perceptions on the health problems to a great degree. In the past, people can only ask for a doctor to know the illness of him or her (Greysen, 2012). However, nowadays, people can just tap into the health information on the Internet to get the knowledge, which has satisfied common people in daily lives. The WebMD will update the latest news on health issues to offer people to read, enabling common people and the patients to get the health information timely. The perceptions of people on the health issues, such as the understanding of mental health, have been changed obviously, because on the website, there is much information on introducing the reasons and the symptoms of the abnormal behaviors when someone has some kinds of mental illness. In the past, many people do not know the way to avoid the mental illness, but now, people can get the help form the Internet, such as the WebMD, to protect themselves and their family members (Hawn, 2009). The information on the physical health has also been discussed online, which have added the knowledge of people on the issues of physical health. For instance, most people do not know how the diabetes can be treated with the daily diets. The diabetes can be passed to the next generation without reasonable treatment as well. It is not sensible for patients with diabetes to eat some foods with sugar, for sugar can make the disease become much worse than before. However, in modern time, patients with diabetes can easily find the advice on the Internet, such as WebMD to assist them to get over the disease. The diabetes is not so dreadful at all if this disease can be treated with proper ways in the daily food, and the food without sugar is the best choice for them. Through this comparison, the information age is beneficial to the patients to a great degree. Also, the medical professions can also sell medicines or medical services on the Internet to make some profits, which has become popular in large cities. The convenience has played a great role in the development of the digital media for health purposes (Jewell, 2007).
Compared with the previous health care, nowadays, people can find better health conditions online through the information on the website (Torke, 2011). Almost all the information about the health care organizations or professionals have been posted on the relative internet to assist patients or the relatives of the patients to choose the most comfortable or the perfect health care institutions to help the patients to get back to health. In the 19th century, most people do not know how to surf the internet or can not afford for a computer (Eaton, 2011). In modern time, the usage of computer has become quite popular, which has promoted the development of the digital media on health issues.
With the development of some health websites, the physicians can employ the social networks to respond to the medical questions, which can be considered as a great change in the health field. The perceptions of the physicians or doctors have also been altered by the development of the social media on health conditions (Jain, 2009). For instance, on the website WebMD, the medical professionals can use the online community to communicate with the patients when they need some important information on their health or chronic illness, so it is one of the dramatic changes in the health field or the medical field. The doctors or the medical professionals can discuss the choices of treatment with the patients or the relatives of the patients. Moreover, the patients or the family members of the patients can employ the WebMD to seek for the advice of the experts in the medical field (Massagli, 2010). All the doctors online are with professional knowledge and abundant experience, so the advice of them are credible. Once the information of the doctors or the professionals is not true, they will be punished by the law. Therefore, the doctors on the internet are always responsible to the patients and try their best to help the patients to get the right information and to solve some health issues effectively. In this way, the perceptions of the medical professions and the patients have been altered to adjust to the quick development of the information age. It is never too late to learn new matters or new knowledge, so for the sake of the health of oneself, people are always interested in some practical medical ways to improve the body and mental health. It is clever to accumulate the health knowledge to benefit the fitness in the long run, in thathealth is the key element in one’s life(Urquhart, 2000). Only by keeping healthy can human beings be happy in daily life.
The distinctions between the perceptions on health issues in the past and in modern time are obvious. For example, in the past, many people do not know how to take care of the babies, especially the young parents(Choudhry, 2002). When the baby got some kinds of illness, parents had to ask for a doctor to see the baby. However, nowadays, the parents can ask for a doctor or a medical profession for help on the internet to take care of their little babies well. This progression can benefit the development of people’s health conditions and the whole society in the long run. Although the perceptions on the health issues, sometimes, are hard to change, in order to follow the main trend of the health field, more and more people begin to accustom to the modern conditions and start to use the advanced digital media to solve some health issues easily in some cases(Vaughan, 2011). #p#分页标题#e#
In conclusion, the perceptions on the health issues of human beings have been altered in a positive way in modern time with the progression of high technology on the internet (Vaughan, 2011). In the near future, the health issues can be solved more and more effective and timely online by the medical professional and doctors.
2. The human beings’ relationship with health and fitness professionals
In order to explain the human beings’ relations with the health and the fitness professionals, the main content of the WebMD needs to be discussed in detail. WebMD has built an organization which many people think can fulfill the health information’s promise online, whose health information is credible with the proof of time, which also has some supportive communities that can benefit the users of this website. Various reference material on the health issues which are important to the users. The health information on this website is always original and timely as well, which has attracted the attention of common people who have some health issues. The staff of the WebMD is excellent in editing the medical materials and can assist people to obtain the health information in diverse ways, the health news of which is very useful for users to browse to know the general conditions of health in the country or around the world(Choudhry, 2002). The databases of the medical reference content are up-to-date, which can help patients and the health and fitness professionals to a great extent. The medical animation can be displayed in a dynamic way, which can make the users to understand some diseases more deeply. The communities in the WebMD are various, such as the caregiving, cancer, digestive disorders, men’s health, mental health and the sexual health, which also includes diverse topics in every community on health issues. The live web events on WebMD have benefited many users to communicate with peer patients or the medical experts much more conveniently. With the web events, the relationship between the patients and the health and fitness professional has been improved to a great degree(Urquhart, 2000). The diseases have been listed with the first letter from A-Z, which enables users to find the relative diseases much easier and more quickly(Greysen, 2012). The users’ experiences have been posted on the WebMD, which allows the users to share the health information with others effectively. WebMD is one of the digital media for health aims, for almost all the people have the health purposes and health is the basis of working and living, some people do not eat in a healthy way, leaving them with some stomach diseases, which makes them suffer from the diseases every day(Chretien, 2011). Without health, people can not work, and happiness will disappear as well. The website can make people more open than before, and it is necessary to introduce the great positive effects of the website, such as WebMD, to improve the health conditions of common people(Vaughan, 2011). Besides, there are many ways to keep physical and mental health. The fitness and health professionals can post some classes to instruct the website users to keep healthy conditions(Urquhart, 2000).
The staff of WebMD is with much knowledge on the Internet and the medical field, whose community moderators are with much experience and have contributed to the daily information on the WebMD. The content editors of WebMD have offered the excellent information with various styles, and they have the necessary qualifications and advanced degree that can meet the requirements of the health website. The staff of the WebMD has made a great contribution to the health information with high quality, who can increase the credibility of the users to a great extent, for various websites begin to sell the health care service or the health information, which makes people to doubt the truthfulness of the health information (Chretien, 2011). Without the credibility of users, the digital media for the health purposes can not stand long in the medical market in the near future. Any social digital media has the aim to make money in modern time, for it is not cheap to set up a website and employ lots of editors and professionals to maintain the whole platform (Choudhry, 2002).
The health and fitness professions intend to make profits by assisting people to keep health and get away with some diseases(Bender, 2011). For example, the fitness and health experts can ask one web user to fill his or her health information in the blanks of one form, and according to the health information of the users, the fitness and health professionals can offer some useful and appropriate classes and diet choices (Chretien, 2011). With the help of the professional health plans, the users can become more and more healthy, therefore, the final results will prove whether the health plans are effective or not(Vaughan, 2011).
The WebMD is one online platform that offers the users the access to communicate with the fitness and health professionals more conveniently, which can improve the health quality of people in the long run (Bender, 2011). The communication between users and the fitness professions are essential to the perceptions of the health issues in modern time, which is also important for the living quality of common people in modern society (Choudhry, 2002). The high pressure in work has caused many people to get ill in physical or mental aspects, which has bad influences on the normal life of them in the long run, so it is necessary to treasure health to keep the high quality of living in daily life.
The health professionals can only offer the advice on health. Only by conducting the health plan effectively can the fitness be built up. The web users can seek suggestions on improving the health conditions, which can reflect the responsibility of one person to his or her health (Chretien, 2011). No one can live happy, if he or she is troubled by diseases every day, for health is the precondition to live a wonderful life. With the improvement of the relationship between common people and the fitness professionals, the whole health conditions of people in the society can also become better gently(Choudhry, 2002). The sound relationship plays an important role in the development of the digital media for the health purposes as well. There is an old saying says, every coin has two sides. Although some digital media are not so credible, most of the health websites can be trusted to some degree, however some health websites offer fake information and can cause damage to people’s health (Bender, 2011). Therefore, it is necessary to maintain the wonderful relationship between common users and the fitness professionals.
Last but not the least important, the relationship between common people and the health experts can develop more positively with the credible information on health issues (Choudhry, 2002). With the relationship between common users and health conditions get better, the profit of the fitness professional can become much more and the health conditions of common people can improve to some extent in the long run.
Conclusion
The Internet enables much of the health information accessible to common people, but in the past, the health information can only be acquired by the health or fitness professionals(Choudhry, 2002). Since the decisions on the personal’s health care can be affected by the Internet to a great degree, with the development of the networking technology, the digital media for the health aims has become more and more popular. The websites have turned into one important source of the health information in modern times, and the WebMD has changed the perception of the health issues to some extent in several aspects(Chretien, 2011).
The paper has introduced the WebMD in detail to illustrate how the digital media has influenced the human beings’ relationship with health and fitness professionals. The health and fitness professionals can communicate with the patients or the users on the Internet effectively, which has benefited the patients and common people a lot. According to the patients’ needs, they can also seek help from the health and fitness professionals at any time(Urquhart, 2000). Thus, the website is a convenient way to strength the relationship between the human beings and the health professionals. The working pace in modern time becomes much faster every day. In order to save time, the patients can build an intimate relationship with the fitness and health professionals gradually, which can also benefit the income of the fitness and health experts to a great degree.
To conclude, the digital media, such as the WebMD has changed the understanding and perceptions of human beings on the health issues deeply, which has also changed the relationship between common people with the fitness and health professions in modern time(Vaughan, 2011). The understanding of the health issues become more and more deep and the relationship between common people and health and fitness experts turns more and more intimate(Urquhart, 2000). The good effects of the digital media for health purposes are quite obvious in this information age, offering great benefits to the patients, the fitness and health professionals, and common people as well.
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