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Homework answers / question archive / 1)Interview a school or community health educator in your city,Ask what his or her philosophy of health education/promotion is
1)Interview a school or community health educator in your city,Ask what his or her philosophy of health education/promotion is. Then ask about the influences that helped the educator form his or her philosophy. Summarize the interview in a onepage paper.
2)Take a survey of your classmates to assess what predominant health education/promotion philosophy each of them might employ. Compare the results with those from the study by Welle, Russell, and Kittleson (1995) described in this chapter. What were the reasons for any differences? Similarities?
3)Suppose that you are a proponent of the social change health education/promotion philosophy. What advantage does this philosophy have for the health education specialist that might be a disadvantage for the consumer of health services and education? Defend your answer
4)A) What is the purpose of health education/promotion? How might the formulation of a purpose statement be reflected in your philosophy of health education/promotion? B) After reexamining the philosophies of health, write a paragraph that could be used to explain your philosophy of health to a friend or colleague
5) Of the five basic health education/promotion philosophies identified by Welle, Russell, and Kittleson (1995), why do you think that the least favorite among health education specialists was the cognitive philosophy? Why do you think decision making was viewed as most popular?
6) Explain how a person might use each of the five major health education/promotion philosophies and the eclectic philosophy to address a societal problem that can be addressed by health education/promotion (e.g., smoking, seat belt use, air pollution, exercise, diet, medication compliance, cancer risk reduction).
7) A) Why is it important to have a personal philosophy about life? B) Compare and contrast the value of having a personal life philosophy and an occupational life philosophy that are similar.
8) A) How will adopting any of the health education/promotion philosophies impact the way health education specialists approach their job? B) Define each of the following and explain their relationship to one another.
• Philosophy
• Wellness
• Holistic
• Symmetry
9) A) What philosophical viewpoints related to health education/promotion do some of the past and current leading health education specialists hold? B) How is a philosophy developed? C) What are the predominant philosophies used in the practice of health education/promotion today?
10) A) What is a philosophy? B) Why does a person need a philosophy? C) What are some of the philosophies or philosophical principles associated with the notion of “health”?
11) Contact your high school health teacher. Ask if he/she is aware of the new National Standards for Health Education and to what extent the curriculum in the school district has been based on these standards. Ask if the school district has a coordinated school health program. If so, how does the program function? Who coordinates the program? What programs/initiatives are a result of the program? If no program exists, ask why? Try to determine the barriers to initiating a coordinated school health program in the district.
12) Interview several individuals who are at least eighty years old concerning the health care they received as young children. Ask them to describe any health education/promotion they can remember. When was it? Where did it take place? Who provided the education? Was it effective?
13) Develop a timeline using 100-year increments from the early Egyptians to the current year. Mark all of the important health-related events as they occurred along the timeline. Next, continue your timeline 100 years into the future. Predict and mark important health-related events. Explain why you believe these predictions will come true.
14) Go online and find a copy of the new Healthy People 2020 objectives. Read the introduction and overview. Find the objectives for one of the topic areas and review them. Next, select one objective in that topic area that you feel strongly about, and explain why you feel it will or will not be met by the year 2020. What role might a health education specialist have in meeting the objective you selected?
15) When the very first schools were being started in Massachusetts, do you believe health education/promotion would have been accepted as an academic subject? Why or why not? Do you believe health education/promotion is accepted as an academic subject at the present time? Why or why not?
16) If a health education specialist trained in the year 2010 could time-travel back to the Middle Ages, what impact could that person have on the health problems of that era? What positive factors would work in the health education specialist’s favor? What negative factors would work against the health education specialist?
17) A) If a health educator is simply considered as someone who educates others about health, who would be considered humanity’s first health educators? Defend your answer B) Imagine what it would have been like to live through an outbreak of the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Write a thirty-day personal diary, with daily entries depicting what you might have seen or heard and how you might have felt.
18) A) Describe the initiatives that have shaped school health education programs over the past ten years. B) Explain how the Affordable Health Care Act may serve to improve the public’s health and advance the health education/promotion profession in the United States.
19) A) What Canadian publication and its U.S. counterpart helped focus attention on the importance of disease prevention and health promotion? B) What are national health objectives? Where can they be found? Why are they so important?
20) A) Who wrote the Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts (1850)? Explain how this report was important to the history of both school health and public health. B) Identify at least five major groups or events that forwarded school health programs.
21) A) What were the major epidemics of the Middle Ages? Why were they so feared? What factors contributed to their spread? What were some strategies people used to prevent these diseases? B) Discuss the Renaissance and why it is important to the history of health and health care.
22) A) Describe the earliest efforts at health care and informal health education/promotion B) Compare and contrast the great societies of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. How are these cultures similar in relation to health? How are they different?
23) A) In a one-page paper, use the chain of infection to outline three different means for preventing the spread of HIV B) In a one-page paper, use the multicausation disease model to explain how a person develops heart disease.
24) A) Do you agree with the authors that health education/promotion is an emerging profession? Defend your response in a one- to two-page paper. B) Write your own definitions for health, health education, and health promotion using the concepts presented in the chapter.
