Arlin M.

Aringo CALP
BEED 1-A Dr. Marianne Arias

Task: News Reporting

Students are tasked to collect current local and international news that have something to do with health concern. This news should be printed
that can be presented in the class. Follow the directions below.
1. Cut and paste (or print) a news article covering a local/national and international health concern across stages of development. This is regardless
of the valence (positive or negative) of the news.
2. Fill out the table below and present in the class, if time permits.

Answer:

Stages News Headline Summary Implication to Teaching And

Learning

Pregnancy Melbourne Women Forced to Give Birth Without 'The worst experience of my life': According to the WHO
Partners amid OMICRON Outbreak Omicron outbreak leaves some guidelines, all pregnant women -
women to give birth without including those with confirmed or
partners. suspected COVID-19 infections -
should have the right to a
Less than a week before companion of their choice being
Melbourne mum Michaela Jones present during delivery.
gave birth to her second child, her Pregnant women need proper
husband Jared tested positive to care of their spouse or even
COVID-19. family so that they do not
It was a stressful and nightmarish experience that they are alone and
scenario – one they had been helpless as they may have
dreading and one many expectant postpartum depression.
families are fearful of as the
Omicron variant sweeps across
 the country. Mrs. Jones was
unable to have a friend with her
https://www.9news.com.au/national/some- during the birth after she tested
melbourne-women-forced-to-give-birth-without- positive to COVID-19, or her
partners-amid-omicron-outbreak/db54f51e-0df3- husband, who also had the virus.
45cf-934f-8f4333c3b394 Mrs. Jones said was left without
support when she needed it the
most. Ms. Smith has started an
online petition calling on the
State Government to adopt WHO
guidelines for childbirth during
COVID-19.

Infancy Pandemic poses short-and long-term risks to The pandemic has created a A mother’s immune response to
babies, especially boys hostile environment for pregnant Covid can be a greater danger to
people and their babies. Stress the fetus than the virus itself.
levels among expectant mothers Studies have linked fever and
have soared. Pregnant women infection during pregnancy to
with Covid are five times as developmental and psychiatric
likely as uninfected pregnant conditions such as autism,
people to require intensive care depression and schizophrenia.
and 22 times as likely to die.
Infected moms are four times as
likely to have a stillborn child.
Yet some of the pandemic’s
greatest threats to infants’ health
may not be apparent for years or
even decades.

Childhood Children affected by Typhoon Rai/Odette face There are 846,000 children who With the help raised by UNICEF
 uncertain New Year need help after Typhoon the needs of children affected by
Rai/Odette destroyed their homes. the pandemic and typhoon
A more infectious strain of ODETTE were met. The year did
COVID-19 and continued heavy not end when the children who
rainfall over typhoon-affected were afflicted by the weather
areas pose an additional danger were short of food and
and can further slowdown aid equipment. They smiled again at
efforts. UNICEF assessment the school supplies they received.
teams from Surigao del Norte, UNICEF said that without this
Siargao Island, Dinagat Island, funding, we will miss out on this
Southern Leyte, Cebu and Bohol critical period to respond to
https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/children- reported that children need safe children’s needs. Some of the
affected-typhoon-raiodette-face-uncertain-new- drinking water, health, nutrition affected areas already had
year and psychosocial support, worrying rates of malnutrition
protection from violence and even before the typhoon struck.
continuation of learning. saw We cannot leave these children
children with diarrhea in homes behind.
and hospitals, their worried
parents barely recovering from
the shock of losing their homes
and livelihoods. Children’s
schools were partially or
completely destroyed and their
learning modules have been
inundated. Staying in crowded
rooms in evacuation centers with
adults exposes them to abuse and
exploitation. Local government
officials are overwhelmed and
child workers such as teachers
and social workers are themselves
affected.

Adolescents Annenberg study finds adolescents are not “If adolescents are doing more Adolescence is a very vital period
naturally predisposed to risk-taking dangerous things in the real that will determine how a person
world, it’s not because they are will view and interact with the
intrinsically more risk-taking than world as an adult. ... It is
children,” Romer told Annenberg important to provide adolescents
Public Policy Center. “The with opportunities to make
question is, what would account independent decisions and take
for the real-world difference?” healthy risks, such as taking on a
By studying past laboratory part-time job or trying out for a
experiments measuring risk- new sport. Adolescence should be
taking behavior in different age the best time of life. Most
groups, the reviewers discovered physical and mental functions,
that children and adolescents are such as speed, strength, reaction
equally likely to make risky time, and memory, are more fully
decisions. In fact, when given the developed during the teenage
option of a safe alternative, years.
adolescents are more likely to
choose the alternative than
children. The researchers also
found younger adolescents aged
11-13 took more risks than older
adolescents aged 14-19.