8: Advantages and disadvantages of a treatment - The Health Choices Book
Channel: Informed Health Choices
Date: 2022-11-15

Claims about what might improve or harm our health are everywhere, and many of these are not reliable. When people make poor choices because they believe unreliable claims, they may suffer unnecessarily, and hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted every year on ineffective treatments. To make better decisions, people need to be able to tell the difference between reliable and unreliable claims about health actions, to think critically about evidence underlying claims, and to consider the advantages and disadvantages of treatment options when they are deciding what to do. 

ABOUT THIS VIDEO: This is one of nine episodes created from a chapter in The Health Choices Book, a comic book designed for primary school children. The PDF of the comic book is free to download, along with other resources (Exercise book, Teacher's guide, Activity cards, Poster), and is translated to many languages. See https://www.informedhealthchoices.org/primary-school-resources/

ABOUT OUR WORK: The Informed Health Choices group develops and evaluates learning and teaching resources for people of all ages to learn to think critically about health choices. Our goal is that decisions impacting our health, the health of our communities and the health of our environment, are informed by the best evidence, so that we take better care of ourselves, each other, and the planet. 

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