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Homework: Nursing Care of Communities and Populations
Environmental Health Issue
This homework will develop a beginning understanding of environmental health issues encountered in the community setting. Students will consider how Healthy People 2030 objectives impact their community and apply concepts such as "social justice" and "the greater good" in evaluating public health initiatives.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the impact of various environmental public health issues on a chosen community.
2. Investigate current or proposed strategies that address solutions to environmental public health hazards.
3. Explore population health concepts such as social justice and equity as it applies to the chosen environmental health issue.
Instructions
Each student will choose one of Healthy People 2030's (HP 2030) objectives (see table below) to guide their assessment of an environmental health issue. The student will explore how their community is affected and impacted by this theme and what is being done to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health. Students may choose either their own neighborhood or the community that will be assessed for the Windshield Survey clinical homework.
Students should review the below table of HP 2030 objectives and choose a topic; click on the link to review the objective on the HP 2030 website. Students will then search relevant public/governmental agency websites and media/newspaper publications to help understand the environmental issue from historical, present, and future oriented perspectives. The EPA's My Environment website may also be helpful (click on link). Students will then create a 2-3-page paper that addresses the following:
I. Briefly describe the selected environmental health issue and HP 2030 objective.
II. Explore the selected environmental health situation from historical, present, and future-oriented perspectives.
1. E.g., how has the environmental issue evolved over time? What do you expect to see in the future regarding this issue?
III. Discuss how your chosen community is affected/impacted by this environmental health theme.
1. Review the "Questions to answer" column in the below table to help guide your assessment.
IV. Discuss any strategies planned or implemented to address this environmental health issue to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health.
1. Consider the barriers and facilitators for success of these strategies.
2. If no interventions are currently in place, propose strategies that are evidence-based.
V. Within the paper, students should consider and address population health concepts such as "social justice", "the greater good" and "equity".
1. Does your community suffer from an unequal burden of the chosen environmental issue? What evidence shows that your environmental issue is a greater burden in this community than surrounding areas or Chicago? How do the resources and interventions available for your chosen community compare to surrounding areas?
VI. How can community health nurses promote environmental health? Focus specifically on the issue you choose and consider how that environmental issue may change or impact the way you provide community nursing care to the population. What nursing interventions are appropriate?
VII. Students should utilize and appropriately cite relevant public/governmental agency websites and media/newspaper publications to substantiate their writing.
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