Health Issues
Community Health
Overview: As a community health care professional, you will need an understanding about environmental hazards. This activity provides you with the opportunity to use a graphic organizer, which is an excellent educational tool you may use in your future career.
Prompt: Before completing this activity, view one or more of the videos, after choosing one video, determine the environmental hazard, the impact on the individual and the community as a whole, and the role of the community health educator in educating the community on these hazards. Create a graphic organizer that demonstrates your findings. This Inspiration software guide will help you understand more about graphic organizers.
· Atomic Testing in the Marshall Islands (cc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMDuASm6sDs
· Louisville’s Rubbertown Neighborhood Fights Against Toxic Emissions (cc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfzPupklrc
· Richmond California Struggles for Clean Air (cc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I_YZPfNUac
· Marshallese Displaced From Home Islands After US Nuclear Testing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSBySTO6ORU (cc).
The following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Determine the environmental hazard.
II. Assess the impact of the environmental hazard on the individual and the community as a whole.
III. Analyze the role of the community health educator in educating a community about environmental hazards.
Guidelines for Submission: Consider using a free online graphic organizer tool, such as Creately, Popplet, or Bubbl, to create this assignment and submit your graphic organizer as a PDF, JPG, PPT, or DOC file.