My Future As a Health Educator

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Week 9 :Discussion: My Future As a Health Educator

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Electing to pursue a career where you serve the community through the promotion of health and well-being is a noble cause. In seeking to establish healthy behavior, you will likely encounter both rewarding and challenging experiences. In practice, you will likely implement programs aimed at different populations and in different settings to address various health issues. The strategies and methodologies that you will employ in these different settings will require you to demonstrate your skills as well as uphold the standards of practice as set forth by professional organizations.

For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources for this week. Reflect on where you would like to work as a health educator, including which target population you are most interested in helping. Consider the skills or qualities you believe are most important for health educators to possess when working in this setting or with this population. Then research and select two professional organizations that may provide opportunities for developing the skills and knowledge needed to work in this capacity.

Post a description of where you would like to work as a health educator and explain why. Describe a target setting or population that you are interested in working with and explain which skills or knowledge of health educators are most important for working with this population and setting. Then, describe two professional organizations that may best assist you in developing skills and knowledge to work in this capacity. Be specific and provide examples.

Required readings

Cottrell, R. R., Girvan, J. T., Seabert, D., Spear, C., & McKenzie, J. F. (2018). Principles and foundations of health promotion and education (7th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings.

  • Chapter 7, “The Settings for Health Education/Promotion”
  • Chapter 8, “Agencies, Associations, and Organizations Associated With Health Education/Promotion”

American Public Health Association. (2014). Public health and health promotion. Retrieved from https://www.apha.org/apha-communities/member-secti…

Discuss how advocacy by public health leaders can influence the public health workforce

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Overview: For this assignment, due in Module Four, you will submit a brief 1- to 2-page paper discussing the various key factors that impact the public health workforce. In this short paper assignment—as well as in the Interview assignment also in Module Four—you will begin to assess the role that effective management principles play in public health leadership. You will also begin to build skills to understand the connection between management and policy.

The number and type of the public health workers needed depends on such factors as the health priorities of the population, the availability of healthcare services, and the social and political allocation of responsibility between government and the private sector. Discuss how these factors change over time and, as a result, how they impact the public health workforce.

. Building on your response to the prompt set forth above, explain the role that public health leaders can play in mitigating adverse impacts to the public health workforce. How does advocacy by health leaders influence the public health workforce? Be sure to provide examples to support your reasoning.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Key Factors/Impact: Assess how key factors in public health change over time and, as a result, impact the public health workforce.  Role of Public Health Leaders: Explain the role that public health leaders can play in mitigating adverse impacts to the public health workforce.  Advocacy: Discuss how advocacy by public health leaders can influence the public health workforce.  Examples: Provide examples to support your reasoning.

Describe the role of leadership skills in managing health and safety in this workplace.

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The SLP for this course is based on a manufacturing company of your choice. The facility employs at least 75 workers. You are the Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Manager for this company. Your task is to develop aspects of a health and safety program that addresses worker injury and illness prevention, as well as environmental health and safety protection.

In this SLP, you will address the role of leadership skills and workplace teams in the improvement of health and safety in the workplace, in the occupational setting of your SLP. You will also address the role of partnerships in health and safety at your facility.

Your Tasks for This Assignment: In spite of your efforts, there has been recent increases in reported injuries, and many workers are losing work days, mostly due to ergonomic injuries, such as sprained backs:

  1. Describe the role of leadership skills in managing health and safety in this workplace.
  2. Apply concepts of transformational leadership to describe how you would manage health and safety in this company, at a time when change is needed.
  3. Describe the role that workplace teams can play in assessing and reducing hazards that are resulting in injuries.
  4. Examine 3 strategies you would use to motivate these teams.
  5. Examine the role of 2 community partners that you will include on an on-going basis to get involved in preventing health and safety risks to workers and risks to the surrounding community; illustrate with specific examples.
  6. Identify 2 community partners that you will keep informed of emergency situations; examine their role in protecting the community.

SLP ASSIGNMENT EXPECTATIONS

Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

Length: The SLP assignment should be 8-10 pages long (double-spaced).

References: At least six references must be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles), required readings excluded. Quoted materials should not exceed 10{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation.

Required Reading

Antweiler, W. (2014). Elements of environmental management. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Divison. Read: Chapter 4: Life cycle assessment (pp.103-115); and Chapter 6: Environmental impact assessment (pp. 163-180).

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 6: Participants in environmental management. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 7: Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Begun, L. & Malcolm, J. (2014). Leading public health: A competency framework. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. Read: Chapter 6: Engage diverse others in public health work (pp. 133-154); Chapter 7: Effectively wield power to increase the influence and impact of public health (pp. 155-182); and Chapter 10: Lifelong leadership development (pp. 233-252).

Gamboa-Maldonado, T., Marshak, H. H., Sinclair, R., Montgomery, S., & Dyjack, D. T. (2012). Building capacity for community disaster preparedness: A call for collaboration between public environmental health and emergency preparedness and response programs. Journal of Environmental Health, 75(2), 24-29.

Healey, B. J., & Walker, K. T. (2009). Chapter 16: Impacts of leadership and culture. In Public health/environmental health: Introduction to occupational health in public health practice. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass.

Hooke, W., & Rogers, P. G. (2005). Chapter 1: Linking hazards and public health: Communication and environmental health. In Public health risks of disasters: Communication, infrastructure, and preparedness. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press.

Tompa, E., Dolinschi, R., & Natale, J. (2013). Economic evaluation of a participatory ergonomics intervention in a textile plant. Applied Ergonomics, 44(3), 480-487.

Optional Reading

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 13: Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Hooke, W., & Rogers, P. G. (2005). Chapter 3: Preparedness and response: Systems, supplies, staff and space. In Public health risks of disasters: Communication, infrastructure, and preparedness. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press.

Karadzinska-Bislimovska, J., Minov, J., Stoleski, S., Mijakoski, D., Risteska-Kuc, S., & Milkovska, S. (2010). Environmental and occupational health risks among agricultural workers living in a rural community near petroleum refinery and motorway in Skopje region. Arhiv Za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju, 61(4), 415-424.

define epidemiology and public health

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Please visit and explore the following websites:

  • Your local public health department
  • Public Health Milestones http://www.soph.uab.edu/isoph/pfizer/Milestones.pdf
  • Ten Great Public Health Achievements http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6019a5.htm?s_cid=mm6019a5_w
  • Public Health Working Every Day http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/docs/PublicHealthWorkingEveryDay.pdf
  • The California Department of Public Health http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/DEFAULT.aspx

After you have completed your web exploration, please address the following points:

  • In your own words, define epidemiology and public health as you understand them from your web research.
  • Provide an overview of your local public health department. Provide the website and pertinent details about the department itself.
  • From your exploration of the websites, list 2 milestones in public health and explain why they were important in the past, present and future of public health.
  • Provide an overview of any additional/extra resources you found during your exploration that are helpful to understand the scope of public health and epidemiology. Comment on the availability of any insightful audio/podcasts or videos.

Your 2-3 page essay should cover all the above points. Compose your essay in APA format with a title page. Include headings to help define the sections of your paper, and be sure to cite all sources in APA format, both in text and in a reference section.

Review the rubric for more details on how your assignment will be graded.