This essay focused preventive care and community health.that was more focused on preventive care and community health
Post your two original introductions and the commentary on each in this discussion thread. Reply to at least two peers’ introductions. Comment on which introduction you prefer and why. Offer insights as to how to strengthen the introduction. Criteria for Success: Your main post should contain two introductions, each with commentary on it Create a presentation that focuses on reducing health disparities in the United states and how this relates to increasing social justice awareness. Create a program or policy that will reduce the prevalence of a health concern or disparity among a specific demographic.
This project should include either an informational poster, newsletter or short commercial recording that could be distributed to the general population to inform the audience on your program and its significance. You will also create presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi, which includes the following information.When Katrina happened in 2005, I was on the faculty at Tulane University School of Medicine. I was doing research, teaching, and seeing patients. But when the storm happened and we flooded, everything shut down, and it caused a moment of reflection, which sounds way too simple. But it caused a sort of “What’s my reason for being here?”
And I realized that I needed to lay aside some of the things I was doing, like research, to help stand up a new health care system, one that was more focused on preventive care and community health. My work for the first seven or so years after the hurricane was focused on building up strong primary care. Then you start to learn that, yes, quality primary care really matters, but if someone has diabetes, for example, and I want to prescribe them insulin, if they don’t have electricity in their house to keep that insulin cold, or if they don’t have a house, it doesn’t matter how good the quality of primary care is that I would deliver.