Consumer Health Questions 1-3

Question #1)

What makes an opinion different from a “fact,” is that a fact is a proven statement known to be correct and an opinion is a person’s point of view on a certain subject. A fact is something that more than one person has agreed on that it correctly represents its statement with background information compared to an opinion, which is a person’s own personal belief about something.

All opinions are equally valid in my eyes. We live in America, “the land of the free” where everyone is entitled to their own “opinion” which is the own personal belief or from one or more people. We all can chose to believe in what we think is the right view to an issue. No one else can make another person believe something if they do not chose to because it is their opinion. Even though everyone might not agree and have the same opinion, it is only the respectful thing to do to let those people believe what they want so it not causes conflict.

Opinions and facts can hold two completely different points of views when it comes to the issue of consumer health and on the health of a whole population of consumers. Facts can help consumers to make the right choices when it comes to their own personal health. Facts can lead consumers to choosing one product over the other because of certain important information that either makes that product a good choice or it can show the bad sides of issues where one product could have a bad review or have not been the most efficient for its use. Opinions are purely based on consumer’s personal thoughts that could pose to better consumer health or lead consumers to find actual facts about consumer health than to take an opinion with only one side to the view.

Question #2)

In the public health ethics value that states that humans should be able to have the resources that are needed for consumer health so that public health officials do not support the use of a “free market” is because supply and demand might help to improve a market, but without the help of the government consumers could take the issue on health into their own hands and consumer health would not be equal for all.

Our health care systems need careful thought when being arranged because there are many different kinds of consumers, products, health care issues that need to be calculated into the equation so that our health care system would work best for all consumers to better their health care. With a free market perspective, I think important points would be left out and whoever was in charge of the health care system would only be concerned with what was best for themselves, or their company and not concerned for us, its consumers. With the help of a government based health care system, it would be better balanced to meet the needs of everyone.

Question #3)

The public health needs to be better informed on our health care because the media, twitters, radio, new stations, ECT…all have a huge impact on consumer’s opinions. Although all of these media related forms of information may be relaying information to us consumers, in the end it is up to us to decide whether we agree with this information or not. Another thing that consumers need to be wary of is that fact that these media corporations may be giving consumer’s information, but it may be purely opinion based rather than fact based. What the general public needs to know is that they should always find out where these media based corporations are receiving their information and whether it is correct or not would mean that consumers need to do their background work to make sure the “facts” that they think they are being given are accurate. The barriers to the general public are what could be chosen to be mentioned, what information is purposely left out altogether and what statement is true or false based on the information relayed. Know that everything you read or hear is not always correct, so whenever you question something about your health care always double check the information you are given so that you can pass on the true facts for our health care.