Public health is defined as the science and art of protecting and promoting decent wellbeing, avoiding disability, disease, and early deaths, reinstating good health when injury and illness impair it and make the most of the value of life. The intention of such public health is promoting, protecting, and improving people’s health, avoiding disease and provide benefit to the whole community as a whole (White, Stallones, & Last, 2013). Therefore, I am analyzing Dr. Jackson Richard’s episode on designing healthy societies for prospective generations and offer how people can shape healthier communities for their children. The Designing Healthy Communities episode covers a postindustrial generation and their health worries, environment, and the …show more content…
Education is vital to constructing healthy communities. If the children were to be educated, they would be inspired to transform the health of the community they live in and would employ more people in their society to aid them in a brighter and sustainable future. Nevertheless, the necessity for younger generations’ education does not mean that only complex programs can help salvage the environment. In fact, simple changes, as little as they may be, will create an immense impact towards the construed community to advance health as a whole (Jackson & Sinclair, …show more content…
However, this was not the lone problem. According to White, Stallones, and Last, understanding the history and defining the extent to which the problem exists within the society’s environment and the crucial ecological footing in also important making their community’s wellbeing public (White, Stallones, & Last, 2013). It was interesting to see Onondaga town in the video, especially the neglected project of eliminating the mercury pollutants in Lake Onondaga that would raise a great concern for the current inhabitants of the town and the future generations. However, the people of Onondaga are intent on ensuring that all the mercury is drained from the lake to make the water safe for human consumption and supportive to the ecosystem it previously upheld. Therefore, it is essential that the older generation learns of their past faults, and to help foster understanding for these concerns into the new generation to help evade these anxieties as well as creating healthier societies to sustain the future
Last week was a good demonstration of how a culture can significantly influence its nation’s health outcome. The Japanese, by being Japanese, have enhanced their mortality rate making them the best nation in the world for health outcomes. (Bezruchka, 2011) Not all cultures are so egalitarian however and require more programs or impetus to effect change in their health status. As we look at Europe, two countries which stood out to me were Sweden, a relatively wealthy country, and Slovenia; much poorer and agrarian relative to other European nations.
This includes the ‘new public health approach’. This expressive approach illustrates how ‘the multifaceted relationships between social, environmental, cultural, economic and political determinants affect health, as well as working towards an equality for a better health’ (Keleher & MacDougall, 2011). Likewise, this ‘new public health approach’ interrelates with other diverse approaches, but specifically with the ‘sociological approach’. These dimensions work hand-in-hand, in order to promote a positive lifestyle, by improving the factors in life individuals take for granted, such as an income, education and living and working conditions. A hypothetical example which exemplifies this, is if there were a middle-low class family, who worked long hours of the day for minimal pay due to their lack of education, and were unable to provide a great enough income for the education of their children. However, the government was able to provide the necessity of education for their children. In essence, this would relieve the family’s stress of not being able to provide the income for their child’s education, thus improving the mental health of the family, as well as the social health of the child being able to socialise and making friends in a comfortable, stable
Jackson. Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, the host, narrator, and author of the Designing Healthy Communities is a professor and a chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the school of Public Health at the University of Las Angeles, CA. He also belongs to leadership programs with the California Department of Public Health. Richard Jackson has had many accomplishments in his life time these just being a couple of them: In California his work led to the establishment of California Birth Defects monitoring program and state and national laws that have reduced the risk of pesticides in farmworkers and children. While at the center of Disease Control and Prevention he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program. In an interview with a radio talk show Jackson was challenged by the host. The host stated that “You work for the government? You must be lazy or stupid or corrupt,” Jacksons response was “No, I am none of those. I am a physician, a pediatrician, and I picked the career of public health to make a difference, to embrace life’s challenges, not to control people’s lives, but to assure conditions where people can be healthy (Jackson & Sinclair, 2012).” I think this statement is a true testament of the character of Richard Jackson. I believe he wrote the textbook and created the series to show everyone what is happening around the US in our communities and how we can make our communities better places to live. Because change does not
Health and wellness can be affected by many factors. The lack of sufficient health care needs to be addressed; to give Americans, rich or poor, a chance of a healthier lifestyle. The definition of health may never be universally accepted, but every culture deserves equal opportunity to better healthcare. Environments will always have an affect on health, but with proper education, people can be taught more effective ways to live in an environment that can’t sustain a healthy lifestyle. As Americans, it is our responsibility to protect our own, and we should begin with our health care system.
... It is the community 's responsibility to organize and trigger a response from the federal government. Additionally, implementing the education of healthy lifestyles through schools allows the youth to foster good habits. For example, teaching female students the process of being a good mother will allow for future mothers to create healthy families. Focusing on the youth is a great way to ensure a bright future. The tricky part is that once action has been taken, it must be maintained. This means the community’s population must value and appreciate the various operations taking place, along with the upkeeping from community officials themselves. As Sir Michael Marmot intuitively remarked “health inequalities are unnecessary...we do know how to create the correct conditions but it is the responsibility of the global community to decide if this is a priority for us.”