Objectives
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to apply what you have learned in this course and should include several of the following course outcomes:
1. Make informed, intelligent decisions about your health and well-being
2. Discuss the highly connected pathways of all systems of the body
3. Critically analyze current issues in human health and medicine
You must address the outcomes in these ways:
1. Make informed and intelligent decisions about your health and well-being: Choose a health condition or lifestyle habit and research the ways in which it adversely affects the various systems of the body. You can choose obesity, cigarette smoking, or alcoholism. Or, feel free to select a different topic altogether. Be as detailed as possible when describing the effects it has on the body's systems. What is happening at the cell and/or tissue level?
2. Discuss the connected pathways of the body's systems: The body's systems are interrelated in structure and function. Describe the specific relationships they have with one another as you explain why several systems can be affected by one condition or lifestyle habit.
3. Analyze current issues - Finally, find out what is being done to decrease the prevalence of this problem. Has there been any recent legislation implemented? Have any programs been established? Are there any promising research studies taking place?