Health education

white paper serves to illustrate the ways in which seniors may benefit from living an active lifestyle. Additionally, this white paper discusses the ways that senior living communities help to promote this style of aging, so seniors of all needs and health levels may lead happier lives. The Importance of Active Aging According to information found on…

improving financial stability, and gaining real-life experience. Since graduating, I have traveled, as well as acted as a live-in caretaker for my terminally ill grandfather. Currently, I am seeking employment in clinical, behavioral, and public health sectors and hope…

What Causes Childhood Obesity? Childhood obesity has become prevalent in developed countries. One fourth of the children in the US are overweight, and 11% are obese. There is evidence that excessive sugar intake, larger portion size, and the decline in outdoor and physical activity play key roles contributing to the rising rates of obesity worldwide. Hence, both over-consumption of calories and reduced physical activity are factors in childhood obesity. What is the best way to cure childhood…

not only being affected by my many social determinates such as family dynamics, life style, and social economic status (Cockerham, 2015), I was influenced by social structures such as the media and advertising. With this knowledge, counseling, education, and medication I was able to control, not cure, the societal disease called an eating…

The Common Core State Standards in school, designed to set clear expectations for the information needed to learn each subject, prepares students to succeed in post-secondary life. The Common Core includes the subjects of math, english, social studies, and math. Each subject contributes crucial skills to progressing the knowledge of the student. Science is the most essential subject taught in school due to the relevance to everyday life and the skills learned and developed in this class.…

Health is a topic that everyone thinks about every so often. This could be because health directly affects a person. As a public health professional it is of great importance to understand current health issues to be able to assist those in need. Knowing what issues are currently affecting the general health of a population will allow health officials to have a better understanding on how to correct the issue. For example, the issue of obesity according to an article written by Roland Sturm…

In reading this chapter understanding different health lifestyles and behaviors are really important. These two ideas of how people chose to live are very interesting in this chapter. While reading the chapter I found that different health chances and choices make a person live a certain way. The choices they make to live a healthy lifestyle can give them far more chances to live longer and have a healthy life. Reading about Weber and Bourdieu I found their research very interesting in studying…

I. Research Strategy (6-page limit) SIGNIFICANCE a. Background information The World Health Organization defines the occurrence of interprofessional education as “…when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.” There is a scarcity of literature regarding the use of experiential-learning to teach students the roles and responsibilities of different professions, particularly when working to…

I started my educational career teaching high school children in the Bahamas, where I was born and raised. Because the island I lived on faced economic, health, and educational disparities, teaching, sometimes, was a bit of a struggle. At times, I felt like teaching was not enough to get children where they needed to be in the world of education and development. What was missing, in my opinion, was a school or educational psychologist or even a guidance counselor on staff to give children and…

dress code is in place for the safety of students. Uniforms create a positive self-image, promote student health and safety as well as promote equality. When in uniform, students can be readily recognised and identified in times of safety concerns. This policy takes into consideration several relevant legislations as; Equal Opportunity Act 1984 Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 Occupational Health and Safety Act, 2000 Racial Discrimination Act,…