DQ: Exploring the educational system

DQ: Exploring the educational system

DQ: Exploring the educational system

This assignment is focused on exploring the educational system in Sentinel City®. By completing this assignment, health professional students will identify social ecological frameworks used for health promotion and gain an understanding of how the educational system within a community can have an impact on the health of its residents. Mayor Franklin Hill is available to share his perspective about the education system in Sentinel City®(SC).

Assignment Instructions

1. Review the following resources:

a. Course textbook and/or other assigned readings

b. Meet with Mayor Hill to obtain information about the education system in SC in general.

c. Review the demographics of your selected SC comminuty, including reportable infectious diseases as well as birth and death rates

2. Recommended Supplemental Resources:

a. Golden, D. S. & Earp, J. L. (2012). Social ecological approaches to individuals and their contexts: Twenty years of health. Health Education & Behavior, 39(3), 364-372. DOI: 10.1177/1090198111418634

b. Social Ecological Model https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/crccp/sem.htm

c. The Institute of Medicine (2014). Understanding the relationship between education and health: A review of the evidence and an examination of community perspectives. Zimmerman, E. & Woolf, S.H. (2014). Understanding the relationship between education and health. https://nam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BPH-UnderstandingTheRelationship1.pdf

d. Download and review the free pdf: Promoting health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research (2000). https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9939/promoting-health-intervention-strategies-from-social-and-behavioral-research

3. Enter SC® and begin the bus tour.

4. As you tour your community, consider the following: the number of public or private schools and the physical condition of the schools if present. If not present where is the closest school for the community residents? Is here an indication that children walk or take the bus to school? Do parents transport their children to school? Is there a public library? If not, where is the closest? Are there public and/or private daycare centers or preschools? If not, where do the residents find these services?

5. What role does the educational system have on determinants of health?

6. What is not apparent that you would expect to see in a community related to the subsystem-education?

7. Based on your observations, make two recommendations to Mayor Hill that may strengthen this subsystem and provide a rationale for each of your recommendations.

8. Develop an individual and/or community-level intervention related to a health concern that can be impacted by the educational system.

9. For questions, contact your Academic Coach.

Learning Objectives

· Recognize the relationship between education and health

· Identify health indicators related to education

· Discuss the benefits of education at the individual and community level

· Identify social, ecological models of health promotion

· Develop individual and community level interventions related to education

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.