Public education

For this assignment, I interviewed Felicia Low, a Program Advisor at the School of Public Health. This interview taught me a lot about myself and my interpersonal communication skills when it comes to communication on a one-on-one basis. Prior to the interview, I was a bit nervous since I did not know Mrs. Low personally and never communicated with her face-to-face. I prepared to conduct the interview in a way that it would feel like a normal conversation and not a regular interview. For…

University Career Services can assist me is be helping me find an internship of some kind of the public health realm. I have a lot of patent care experience but none really in public health and it is important to have them when wanting a job in epidemiology. As said before, this profession is extremely community based and it is important to be able to communicate with them to get the message across. With having public health experience that will make it easier so I will have an idea of what…

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priorities (based on the community health assessment and community input). The plan also includes how the priority issues will be addressed to improve the health of the community. This community health assessment was conducted by the Kittitas County Public Health Department (KCPHD) in collaboration with a Community Health Improvement Steering Committee which held seven committee meetings and several sub‐committee meetings over a ten month period to complete the community health assessment (Read,…

provinces and territories receive is significant, and topped $35 billion in 2002-2003(http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/, 2004-2007).In 2009, the government funded about 70% of Canadians' health care costs. This is slightly below the OECD average of public health spending. This covered most hospital and physician cost while the dental and pharmaceutical costs were primarily paid for by individuals(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada,…

the dark side to technology is the use of the internet. More and more people these days turn to the internet for diagnostics and end up just freaking themselves out instead of going to the doctor ( “ Impact of Technology on Healthcare – AIMS EDUCATION, “ 2013). There are many reasons as to why the Healthcare costs are rising. One of these reasons are hospital cost increase due to hospitals merging and acquisitions and these two things have shown hospital market concentration levels to…

vulnerable host to survive and spread. The environment has many attributes such as socioeconomic, physical, and biological (Nies & McEwen, 2015). With all three conditions in place, disease can spread and affect millions of people. The public can fight these causations with education and knowledge about risk factors, and proactivity in health status. The ecosocial epidemiology paradigm related to cardiovascular disease is important to study because…

developed with federal funding appropriated by the public act (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2015a). The program served as the first federally mandated breast cancer prevention program for low- income and uninsured women. According to the CDC (2015a), the program had many successful attributes. For instance, the program was able to reach 4.8 million women and diagnose 67,959 women with breast cancer (CDC, 2015a). Without the adoption of public policy to address this population health…

factors, choices made or by chance, but mostly they are because of unequal access to socio-economic factors such as income, education, employment and social supports. These socio-economic determinants strongly interact to influence health and an improvement in any of these can produce an improvement in both health behaviour and outcomes among individuals and groups (WHO 2003). Education and occupation are among the most frequently used socio-economic determinants of health, as enormous evidence…

5. Define and explain the significance of the social determinants of health. How is this connected to an understanding of social and health inequalities in Canadian society? How does this approach connect with environmental public health and your role as an environmental public health professional? If one were to define healthy, one might define it as the absence of disease; another might define it as proper nutrition, exercise, a steady job, minimal stress, etc. The truth of the matter is…