The environment describes all external factors that affect us – thus environmental health is the idea that these factors can influence our health, for better or worse. There is the social environment, or the people around us, and the physical environment, or all external physical factors that affects us. This […]
Student learning outcome 1 – What is health
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One view of medical care is that if something is wrong, you can go to the doctor to get better. The medical definition of health is often just the absence of a particular disease. However, there is another view of health and wellness – this is the view that sees […]
Go to the BMCC Library website – http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/ and click on Databases. Select Video Databases, then select Kanopy Streaming Videos. If you are not on campus, you will have to log in with your BMCC log-on (the same credentials you use to log into computers on campus). When you are […]
Mortality in 1900 vs. 2010 Discussion question: How have the causes of death changed in the last 100 years? Discussion question: Why have the causes of death changed in the last 100 years?
What are some of the most common behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death? And is there anything we can do to change our likelihood of death from a particular cause? The behaviors that are responsible for most deaths in the United States are: using tobacco, a sedentary […]
Our government and many health-related organizations put together a plan every 10 years to improve the health of the nation. This decade’s plan is called HealthyPeople 2020 – https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/About-Healthy-People Some of the broad areas that Healthy People 2020 focuses on are: Reducing or eliminating illness, disability or premature death Eliminating […]
One way to track the health of the nation every year is with the leading causes of death which can be found here https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm for all ages in the United States. To learn more about different causes of death by sex, age, and race, download the following report from National […]
How would you define health? There are several interconnected and relateddimensions of wellness that are dynamic – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508938 What makes your health better or worse? All of the factors that influenceyour health, including your genetic code, your behaviors, and your environment,are called the determinants of health – https://www.who.int/hia/evidence/doh/en/ Social determinants […]
