KINE 2350 Physical Activity Skills I: Conditioning, Individual, and Dual Sports Homework: Reflection Paper- Collin College
In order to receive full credit, you are required to discuss each question thoroughly in complete sentences.
I. Describe Your Partner/Team-Based Learning Experience: Over the course of the signature Homework, you worked with a partner/team to identify a health issue or topic. Briefly describe your overall experience, including your thoughts on how you and your partner/team communicated to develop evidence-based solutions to address the issue. What was the most successful component of your team-based experience? What was the least successful component of your team-based experience? What might you do next time in order to make that cooperative experience more beneficial for all members?
II. Address Social Determinants of Health: Throughout this course, a large focus was placed on what social determinants of health are, and how those impact health status and quality of life. Choose two of the social determinants of health below and discuss why those are particularly important to your health issue/topic. How do those determinants affect vulnerable populations? How does the complex nature of diverse cultures and populations impact how people are impacted by these particular social determinants? What are your thoughts and ideas for potential solutions to the disparities that exist in this area of health-related outcomes in the United States?
Healthy People 2020 Determinants of Health.
a) Availability of resources to meet daily needs (e.g., safe housing and local food markets)
b) Access to educational, economic, and job opportunities
c) Access to health care services
d) Quality of education and job training
e) Availability of community-based resources in support of community living and opportunities for recreational and leisure-time activities
f) Transportation options
g) Public safety
h) Social support
i) Social norms and attitudes (e.g., discrimination, racism, and distrust of government)
j) Exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder (e.g., presence of trash and lack of cooperation in a community)
k) Socioeconomic conditions (e.g., concentrated poverty and the stressful conditions that accompany it)
l) Residential segregation
m) Language/Literacy
n) Access to mass media and emerging technologies (e.g., cell phones, the Internet, and social media)
o) Culture
Examples of physical determinants include:
a) Natural environment, such as green space (e.g., trees and grass) or weather (e.g., climate change)
b) Built environment, such as buildings, sidewalks, bike lanes, and roads
c) Worksites, schools, and recreational settings
d) Housing and community design
e) Exposure to toxic substances and other physical hazards
f) Physical barriers, especially for people with disabilities
g) Aesthetic elements (e.g., good lighting, trees, and benches)
III. Reflect on Your Experience Trip: Through the research, presentations and experience trip you did this semester, you learned about the central problems and disparities related to your health issue or topic. You may have observed similar/dissimilar conditions in your experience trip with a community organization. During this trip, you made individual notes related to the interview. Comment on two key "lessons learned" from this experience.
IV. Social Responsibility Reflections: Finally, now that you are aware of the issues and disparities specific to your health issue or topic as those impact your own community, develop a conclusion that is a logical extrapolation from your findings and observations, to include proposed solutions for the future. For example, what have you learned about this health issue? What biases are you aware of, either in society or within yourself? What would be important for responsible citizens in your community to know about this issue?
V. YOU as a Future Public Health Professional: Synthesize and summarize the knowledge you gained in this class and discuss the following questions:
a) What is YOUR future role as an engaged, concerned citizen related to future endeavors on community, regional, state and national or global levels to advocate for improvement and change?
b) How can YOU contribute to the process of change?
VI. The Practice and Scope of Public Health: You learned about the broad depth and breadth of the scope of Public Health. Choose one of the following areas and describe why that area is of particular interest to YOU and why it is important component of Public Health:
a) Biostatistics
b) Epidemiology
c) Behavior and Community Health
d) Health Management and Policy
e) Environmental Health
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.