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In an essay, describe why it is important to prioritize health issues in a community. Identify several criteria that public health professionals may use to determine priority health issues and outline the relevance of the criteria for your community. Provide a minimum of two external citations to support your post.
Module 2 (worth 30 possible points)
Chapter 3 – Before Giving Care
Chapter 4- The Human Body
Complete the following questions/scenarios and place your responses in the upper right hand corner “submit
assignment”:
1. Identify the 4 conditions which must be met in order for a “bloodborne pathogen” to spread.
2. How can you minimize the risk of spreading a disease when giving care when visible blood is involved?
3. How do you obtain consent to help a Responsive or Unresponsive victim?
4. Before you act, what are the 7 limitations to consider before moving one or more persons?
5. Name and describe “when to use it” the 5 Emergency Moves in chapter 4.
6. Name and describe the Anatomic Terms which refer to “directions and locations” when discussing where a
person is experiencing signs and symptoms from an injury or illness..
7. Name and describe the 5 “positions” you may have to describe a person’s position to the EMS.
8. Name and describe the 5 Body Cavities in discussed in Chapter 4.
9. Name and Explain the “primary function’s” of the 8 Body Systems discussed in Chapter 4 and NAME AN
Create an elevator pitch for someone seeking a degree in public health with a 10 year background in health care. Currently working on a bachelors degree in public health. Discuss why you chose public health and why you are good at what you will be doing.
Must include a Hook/Opening, Previous Experience/Goals and Aspirations, and a Closing.
psychosis. However, I would be in principle interested in a public health/population health approach, possibly in the Saudi population, so long as measures of psychosis (paranoia, hallucinations) were included (the actually have a suitable brief battery of measures which includes depression, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations and a few other types of psychopathology). The difficult issues to be resolved would be: (i) sampling – how would it be possible to get a well-characterised and reasonably large (N = 1000+) sample of the Saudi population? (ii) translation of the instruments; (iii) selecting social determinants of interest. In this context you might be interested to know that many of the social determinants of paranoia and the same as those for depression. Both paranoia and depression seem to be related to self-esteem, and both seem to be related to issues of ‘belonging’ or identity, as well as attachment.Sent from my iPhon
Statement is intended to give an opportunity to submit a tailored narrative which will describe the following.
Your personal statement should describe your:
-Reasons for interest in public health
-Reasons for interest in program of study and/or concentration
-Reasons for interest in the school or program
-Career goals
Please incorporate the following attachment notes into the personal statement