Healthy Communities

Please answer questions below and see reading and video materials over discussion. I will send community information. Thank you

Before you begin crafting your discussion response for this week, be sure to read required materials and watch Episode Two and Episode Three of the Designing Healthy Communities PBS miniseries. These episodes are designed to help provide you with a broad understanding of the topics that are discussed in class. This week our focus is on understanding public health basics: prevention of disease, clean air, clean water, food supplies, and how a sampling of different cities approaches and manages their public health issues for maximum well-being of residents.

This week, evaluate your own community in terms of integrated approaches to public health. Select either a focus on disease prevention and control, air, water or food.

• 1. What community-based strategies do you see in place to protect health?
• 2. What health services, local or national organizations exist to support wellness in the focus area you selected?
• 3. Do pollution or contamination in your area impact the focus you selected?
• 4. What does your community need to do to improve public health in the area you selected for this discussion?

Post your response by Thursday and comment on at least two other students’ posts by Sunday night.

READINGS

Required

• Chapters 6 & 7 in Global Public Health
• Mansfield, T. J., Rodriguez, D. A., Huegy, J., & MacDonald Gibson, J. (2015). The effects of urban form on ambient air pollution and public health risk: A case study in Raleigh, North Carolina. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 35(5), 901-918. doi:10.1111/risa.12317

Recommended

• Liping, B., Yeyao, W., Yongli, G., Youya, Z., Li, L., Zengguang, Y., & … Xuefeng, X. (2016). Health risk assessment research on heavy metals ingestion through groundwater drinking pathway for the residents in Baotou, China. Journal of Environmental Health, 78(6), 84.
• Kearns, M., & Brotherton-Bunch, E. (2014). Public policy transforms when health expertise and the public come together. National Civic Review, 103(1), 60-62. doi:10.1002/ncr.21180