FS HED 201

PART 1

Overview

The “Current Events in Public Health” assignments are designed to help integrate the concepts in each module and then relate them to public health current events. This week the topic is: The distribution, or the HOW MUCH, WHO & WHERE of the problem.

It helps to meet:

Course Objective 6: Demonstrate the use of basic epidemiological methods, such as the analysis of rates, and the definition of cases, population at risk, risk factors, incidence, prevalence, morbidity and mortality

Course Objective 2: Identify different public health disciplines, professions and organizations, and explain how each contributes to the field of public health.

You will read and summarize an article and provide a personal viewpoint. Then you will practice looking for epidemiologic information or how the problem is distributed. Your work should give us a “snapshot” of who the problem impacts.

Key Takeaways:

*Epidemiology looks at the who, where and how many of health problems. This is the distribution.

*It is the epidemiologists job to use numbers (biostatistics) and patters to best describe those at risk for certain health problems.

Concept Review: Prevalence

Review our terms unit: Prevalence is the number of cases of a disease, infected people or people with some other attribute present during a particular interval of time. It often is expressed as a rate. Prevalence is a simple way to express the amount of disease and a key point to include.

In easy terms, Prevalence is the measure of how common a disease or condition is in a group of people over a certain period of time. Numbers help us understand the amount of the problem. Prevalence helps us understand how many people are affected during that time.

Readings

Article 1 . (,You will do the distribution of high blood pressure, not your chosen topic.)

Assignment Steps

1. Read the material and write a 3-5 sentence summary.
2. Do some more research. Tell us WHO the problem impacts most and a little about them. Find more data that supports your topic.
3. Include the current data on prevalence, gender, age, and race as your demographics/distribution. We will do social factors next so do not include it here.
4. For the reflection paragraph add a personal viewpoint. A personal viewpoint is an opinion, not someone else’s words. Suggestions are “I wonder..” “I believe..” “This impacts me because..” type statements. Please don’t just state the obvious!
5. For the bibliography, cite the article you read and then you must have at least two sources. (the main article and one more that supports your claim)
6. Follow my format! You must have the bold categories and simple statements like my example for full credit.

Example

I read an article on the use of telehealth in the treatment of opioid addiction. With so much technology, using telehealth has proven to be a novel and cost-effective way to address opioid use. Patients that used telehealth had significantly better recovery rates (1).

Prevalence: The opioid epidemic is far reaching with 16 million users worldwide and 2.1 million in the US alone (2).

Age: Although problems are widespread, the peak age for treatment is 25-35 (2).

Gender: Men, however, have an overdose death rate of 2.3x greater than women (3).

Race: Racially, whites have about 2x the death rate of Blacks and Hispanics combined (3).

Opioid statistics challenge our expectations of “drug addicts” as inner city minorities. I think people assume drug use is an urban problem and minorities. My kids carry Narcan because we know that experimenting teens have also been impacted by drug exploration. It is naive to think that our communities are not at risk.

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What You Need to Accomplish

1. Provide an article summary of 3-5 sentences.
2. List the prevalence, gender, race and age distribution in the format provided
3. Your fact(s) must be properly noted on the slide with in-text citations
4. Provide a personal reflection.
5. Use the format in the example.
6. Reference at least two sources.

PART 2

Discussion Prompts:

1. Share a moment when you had to step in and advocate for a child, family, or staff member.
2. What challenges did you encounter and what made you feel successful when advocating for others?

Peer Response Expectations

• • Submit your initial response to the discussion prompts by 11:59 PM on Friday.
  • Post peer responses separately to 2 different classmates by 11:59 PM on Sunday.
  • Each peer response should have the following elements:
    1. Include an in-depth response and descriptive that you are asking of the person you are responding to
    2. Be at least 30 words that go beyond saying “I like what you wrote…”. Be curious, descriptive, and affirming. Here are some helpful guides:

• • • • your replies, please find connections with your peers. Look for what you have in common and what might be different.
      • Keep in mind that online discussions can be viewed similarly to in-person conversations, so the same rules of politeness apply. Address your classmates by name, respect differing view points, ask open-ended questions, express gratitude, and engage honestly.
      • Participate over multiple days, circling back around to reengage with the conversation.

Grading

Your initial post is worth 5 points. Your responses to two other peer’s response is worth 2.5 points each, for a total of 10 points for this discussion. Full points will be earned for responses that:

1. 1. 1. Your initial post is descriptive and detailed based on the discussion prompts.
      2. Meet the descriptive 30-word minimum (each)
      3. Are respectful and affirming (even if disagreeing)
      4. Are posted on time

PART 3-

DiscussionWeek 3: Discussion

For this week’s discussion, we will be sharing images of Chicanx art that have elements and iconography from precolumbian Mesoamerican art. Please make sure to read the slides prior to completing this discussion and see extra resources in this week’s module. I am extending the due date for this discussion to Initial Post due by Friday to give you more time to search for artwork and relate it to this week’s content. Please follow these guidelines for discussion:

1. Choose one piece of Chicanx art and embed the image(please embed and don’t link, posts without image embedded will not be given points, linking makes everyone download to see it, see my announcement from Week 1 about this and see orientation module to learn how to embed image, you should see it sitting in your post, not the link or attachment. It doesn’t have to be a famous artist, it could be a local artist, could be murals, or lowrider artwork (Remember to embed click the little icon of a pic and choose image, then you can resize by clicking image if you like.)
2. Write an analysis of the artwork and explain how it is influenced by Pre-Columbian art. Some things to think about could include iconography, designs/patterns, historical figures or events. (should be at least 50 words, hopefully more… click “tools” on menu to get word count).
3. Include the name of artwork in quotes, artist name, year created, and medium…if possible.

PART 4

Week 3 Reflection: Portraits and Representation

Who artists choose to represent in their art and how they choose to do so can hold significant power. A person can be uplifted through artistic representation or insulted and brought down. A fictional character represented in art can tell a story, share a lesson, or serve as representation of a real individual/group and their experience. The artists we learned about this week have used clay to create representations of others (real or fictional). Select at least two of the works we took a look at in this week’s lecture and write a 500-word-long reflection considering how representations of individuals might be uplifting or destructive. Who is affected by these outcomes and how? How do the artists weve looked at use their art practice to guide our interpretations of their works?

Guidelines:

To earn full credit:

• Pick at least two of the works we took a look at in this week’s lecture. Share the artists name and the title of the work.
• Share an analysis of how representation plays a role in both works. How are these two works similar or different?
• Write a response that addresses the prompt and is at least 500 words
• Submit before the due date and time

Due Wednesday by 11:59 pm

Points Possible: 20

Submitting Your Assignment:

1. Please complete the assignment as a pdf, docx, or doc file.
2. Click the Submit Assignment link located above.
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