The abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are a major problem in community health, but in my eyes, it’s the most upsetting. Personally, I don’t find any of it necessary to enjoy life which humans have been given. It is extremely important schools have implemented an effective substance abuse prevention plan. Students need to be educated more on these issues because there is a lot of peer pressure in the schools and communities, and students need to know and be willing to say no if they want to. Teachers need to inform students more about these issues, not just on the effects. For example, teachers could bring in guest speakers with a traumatic incident, field trips, and projects can be done, etc. There are many ways students can learn and be moved by information regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Our group agreed all of issues are extremeley controversial in regards to them being legal or illegal, etc.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
SLAM Chapter 5
In chapter 5 they talk about two things that are needed to make community health successful. Those two things are the skills to organize a community and to plan a health promotion program.
Community organizing is a process through which communities are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals that they have collectively set.
A point that was brought up throughout our discussion was that many hands make light work. Health organizations need to communicate with each other and work together in order to be successful. The more people who have the same goal and work with eachother to reach that goal, the more likely that goal will be accomplished.
The steps in the program planning process include assessing the needs of the priority population, setting appropriate goals and objectives, creating an intervention that considers the peculiarities of the setting, implementing the intervention, and evaluation the results.
Community organizing is a process through which communities are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals that they have collectively set.
A point that was brought up throughout our discussion was that many hands make light work. Health organizations need to communicate with each other and work together in order to be successful. The more people who have the same goal and work with eachother to reach that goal, the more likely that goal will be accomplished.
The steps in the program planning process include assessing the needs of the priority population, setting appropriate goals and objectives, creating an intervention that considers the peculiarities of the setting, implementing the intervention, and evaluation the results.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Chapter 3 & 4
Chapter 3 focused primarily on the overview of epidemiology which is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and injuries in the community. They want to know the details surrounding the sicknesses. This profession encompasses a lot of mathematical data which makes it interesting. We've never fully understood everything an epidemiologist does until we finished reading this chapter. Also, a lot of definitions were provided in these chapters which we never knew which helped us gain knowledge! It definitely seems like a busy and interesting profession. Also, we learned a lot about all the different studies and surveys done to collect data. The purpose of the three different types of studies is to determine the cause of injury, disease, and death in the community and to provide information which will assist in controlling current outbreaks and preventing future ones. These studies are a source of primary prevention as a way of educating people to make the right decisions based on the data provided.
In Chapter 4, we learned there are different types of diseases: acute and chronic. Acute diseases last for less than three months while chronic diseases can last longer than three months. Also, they can be classified as communicable (infectious) or noncommunicable (noninfectious). The noncommunicable diseases are the ones we should be worried about because many of them are some leading causes of death. It is important to realize that diseases can be significantly reduced by using primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. An example of these would be educating people (primary), screening (secondary), and re-educating people (tertiary). It takes both individual and community efforts to reduce diseases though which will end up making deaths not so common from these diseases. The development of knowledge about disease is quite obvious in both of these chapters. With technology and this type of knowledge, we hope people will start finding cures easier and making right choices to eliminate possible diseases.
In Chapter 4, we learned there are different types of diseases: acute and chronic. Acute diseases last for less than three months while chronic diseases can last longer than three months. Also, they can be classified as communicable (infectious) or noncommunicable (noninfectious). The noncommunicable diseases are the ones we should be worried about because many of them are some leading causes of death. It is important to realize that diseases can be significantly reduced by using primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. An example of these would be educating people (primary), screening (secondary), and re-educating people (tertiary). It takes both individual and community efforts to reduce diseases though which will end up making deaths not so common from these diseases. The development of knowledge about disease is quite obvious in both of these chapters. With technology and this type of knowledge, we hope people will start finding cures easier and making right choices to eliminate possible diseases.
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