HSC Thought Provoking questions part 2
Get involved early and throughout the week, you need to be involved on at least 3 separate days throughout the week. The more involved you are in the discussions the higher your grade will be.
Respond to these questions:
Kristal Gotay
taking charge of your health; Physical wellness
COLLAPSE
Recognizing symptoms of diseases is one of the checkpoints of being aware of heath. (https://health.gov/healthypeople ) Healthy people are an organization that over a 10-year span, helps the nation essentially become healthier through scientific measurements. One of the topics I chose was Alzheimer’s. “Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the US. Healthy People 2030 is trying to improve care and quality of life for these patients. There is no cure for this disease, and it seems that’s the three baselines that they have is solely to get more information. Maybe if people with family members who have Alzheimer’s get tested early on in life it can be prevented? find the gene that creates it and eliminate it from there.
Emily Matos
Too many liquor stores in minority towns
COLLAPSE
I believe that the health disparities in towns largely populated with minorities can be lessened. Insel, Roth, and Insel explained that “health determinants that are environmental, which includes natural and human-made environments, can be changed which can reduce the impact on health” (8). I would like to focus on 1 change that must occur in these towns that would increase residents’ physical wellness.
Why are there approximately 13 liquor stores within a 2-mile radius in Central Islip and approximately only 5 liquor stores within a 2-mile radius in East Islip? Central Islip is a minority community. East Islip is predominantly a white community. A medical degree is not required to realize that this is a health concern in minority communities. I am astounded by the health implications that can occur from excessive drinking/alcohol abuse. The CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, website: www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm, list 5 short term health risks, 13 long term health risks along with 6 potential cancers. This is astonishing.
The temptation to ingest alcohol is greater in towns where there are multiple sources to purchase alcohol. I do understand that local governments do profit from higher taxes due to alcohol sales, but at what point should the local officials realize that the short term benefit of increased tax revenue becomes overshadowed by the financial burdens of increased alcoholism, declining health of community members, increased violence, increased motor vehicle accidents, increased need for police to respond to domestic fights and social fights. These are all instances that largely result in greater financial expenses for a community in the long term.
Do you think the local government should bare the responsibility of correcting this burden?
Kristin Parks
Chapter 1 and College Students
COLLAPSE
After reading chapter 1, the section “Wellness on Campus” stuck out to me as I related to it personally. Looking back at my first semester away at school, my eating habits were very unhealthy. My stress level during my first semester was extremely high. The textbook states that stress affected 30.3% of students (Insel, Roth, and Insel, 2009), I was actually shocked this number was not higher. However, later in my first semester, I noticed these unhealthy aspects of my health and wellness. I altered some aspects of my lifestyle by monitoring my eating habits along with time management to reduce my stress. Going away to college is a learning experience for me.
Have you ever found yourself reevaluating your choices to better your health your lifestyle after a certain experience? Were you also surprised by the stress statistic in the textbook?
Isabella Conti
Chapter 1
COLLAPSE
What health lessons in life did you learn the hard way? in my high school, juuling and smoking nicotine were cool. Once I grew up a little bit more i realized it was not a healthy life choice and it was going to hurt me in the long run.
Shawn Richards
Emotional wellness should be taken so much more serious
COLLAPSE
I feel that all dimensions of wellness are extremely important. However, I would say that emotional wellness could be considered the most valuable to a person’s health. “It fluctuates with your intellectual, physical, spiritual, cultural, and interpersonal health. (Page 2)” I’m sure that I am not the only individual that can say financial, and occupational wellness can also affect ones self-esteem or self-acceptance. If basically, all the dimensions can have an impact on how well one is doing emotionally. I feel that people should normalize treating your emotions as serious as your own physical health. Emotion seems like a huge factor to other health problems and could affect your life expectancy in the long run. So why not treat something like a therapy visit as you would treat a doctor’s visit?
Emily Matos
Too many liquor stores in minority towns
COLLAPSE
I believe that the health disparities in towns largely populated with minorities can be lessened. Insel, Roth, and Insel explained that “health determinants that are environmental, which includes natural and human-made environments, can be changed which can reduce the impact on health” (8). I would like to focus on 1 change that must occur in these towns that would increase residents’ physical wellness.
Why are there approximately 13 liquor stores within a 2-mile radius in Central Islip and approximately only 5 liquor stores within a 2-mile radius in East Islip? Central Islip is a minority community. East Islip is predominantly a white community. A medical degree is not required to realize that this is a health concern in minority communities. I am astounded by the health implications that can occur from excessive drinking/alcohol abuse. The CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, website: www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm, list 5 short term health risks, 13 long term health risks along 6 potential cancers. This is astonishing.
The temptation to ingest alcohol is greater in towns where there are multiple sources to purchase alcohol. I do understand that local governments do profit from higher taxes due to alcohol sales, but at what point should the local officials realize that the short term benefit of increase tax revenue becomes overshadowed by the financial burdens of increased alcoholism, declining health of community members, increased violence, increased motor vehicle accidents, increased need for police to respond to domestic fights and social fights. These are all instances that largely result in greater financial expenses for a community in the long term.
Do you think the local government should bare the responsibility of correcting this burden?
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