Community Health Class Reflection

Beginning this class, I was not sure what to expect because I did not really know what community health was. I signed up for the class to fulfill the requirement for my minor. Throughout this class, I have learned so much about the aspects of the community health, agencies, drug abuse, health rates, and disease types and control. These were all topics that were greatly interesting to me and I feel like the class improved my understanding of the way in which many communities operate. It also taught me the correct meaning of many terms that I thought I knew what they meant, but I had heard them used incorrectly so often that I associated the wrong meaning with the word.
When starting this class, I did not know what community health was, so through the course of this class I have learned a lot about community health along with many issues that every community faces. I feel like I need to learn a lot more about policy that effects community health and communities. I understand and have studied a lot of different aspects of disorders, but I would like to learn more about the abuse of different drugs and treatments. I think that with this class I only scratched the surface of the material incorporated into community health. In the class, I learned about …show more content…
I do not think that I need to change my values or beliefs. I have my own values and beliefs but I do not try and impose those onto anyone. I am very open and respectful to people with other views and I do not judge them for the values or beliefs that they have. As a professional, we come to the workplace with our own values and beliefs but sometimes those need to take the backseat so that we can sufficiently help those that we are serving. My experiences have opened my eyes to new thought processing and with more experiences I am sure that some of the values that I have now would change with time in the