Community Health Video Analysis

Since 1980, the United States has taken on 10-year plans that outline certain key national health objectives set to be accomplished during a 10-year timeframe (Shi & Singh, 2015). These initiatives are founded on medical care with prevention services, health promotion, education, community health care, and increased access to integrated services. The initiative, Healthy People 2010: Healthy People in Healthy Communities, launched in 2000. The initiative emphasizes the role of community partners such as

In creating a culture of health, we need to create: ways of sharing values, collaborating, integrating health, and community systems and equitable systems.

The Netflix movie “What the Health” has taken the world by storm. An anti meat-eating documentary, that tries to persuade people that a plant-based diet is the right choice for everyone. What may make everyone think that this documentary is credible is that they show and portray various medical professionals, such as doctors, in their medical facility wearing lab coats. People are more compelled to believe what a person with status and authority says, in this case those in lab coats, and others who represent a high status individual, such as doctors in a medical facility setting, a specialist, etc. This film might convince its credibility to people, by being a documentary style; People believe that if it weren’t true it wouldn’t have been on TV, thus showing people that there might be some truth to what they are saying. That’s the influence most authority figures have on an

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast at daybreak, “pummeling a region that included the fabled city of New Orleans and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi. In all, more than 1,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others displaced.” (Laforet, New York Times)

New Orleans, LA is important because it was originally a French settlement but with the Louisiana purchase it was given to the U.S. It ended up being the wealthiest city in the U.S. with a huge port. It was also a place with free African Americans, up until the reconstruction era.

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana is known as a human gumbo due to the assortment of people, cultures and year round festivals. New Orleans, Louisiana has become a renowned tourist attraction primarily due to its delectable food, night life (Bourbon Street) and adult entertainment industry. The population for the city of New Orleans in the year of 2015 was projected to be 389,617 while the population in the entire state of Louisiana was 4,670,724 (United States Census Bureau, 2015). To clarify, the state’s population is 63.2% Caucasian, 32.5% African American and 5.0% Hispanic or Latino as of July 1, 2015 (United States Census Bureau, 2015). In addition, 5.9% of New Orleans population is foreign born persons which has divulged the city and states issues of Human Trafficking (United States Census Bureau, 2015).

Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, the city has been repopulated by rich whites and Latinos with African Americans returning to the area at much lower rates. Hurricane Katrina affected millions of people across the United States by tremendous flooding and Category 5 winds; Hurricane Katrina remains the most expensive and most destructive natural disaster to strike the United States.

There are overarching similarities between the two municipalities however, each locality emphasizes efforts in different areas. Both strategic plans are organized by goals and aspirations to ensure the prosperity of both localities. James City County has established a greater focus on economic growth as well as the modernization of government services like workforce development and educational systems (James City County, 2015). New Orleans has a stronger goal of addressing climate change and potential environmental issues that the City will eventually have to tackle. Additionally, the differing demographics must be considered among the two localities, with James City County having a higher income population than New Orleans (New Orleans, 2010). Thus, it is more pertinent to address issues concerning lower income households in the New

The railroad development is a constant for Chicago and New Orleans. In both situations we see that the businessmen use railroads to further expand the commerce of their cities. And in both articles this expansion of commerce seems to take priority over everything else. Cronon tells us about the disgusting ingredients that go into the meat, how butchers go out of business (class notes), and how the bison population disappears (Cronon, 207). Kelman talks about the businessmen who hide the epidemic just to keep commerce flowing in New Orleans (Kelman, 94). As commerce as expands we see the spaces of the cites develop in different ways. The space around Chicago was always the space being used for commerce. But in New Orleans the riverfront within the city was used for commerce before the railroads. I think that’s why Chicago easily develops railroads while New Orleans is slow to do so. But there are also many similarities about the spaces around the cities. In both articles the space surrounding the city was sacrificed to expand commerce. Kronon writes about the land surrounding Chicago becoming home to the cattle. The grass and bison in the Midwest are totally used up (Cronon, 205). And Kelman writes about the swampland around New Orleans being destroyed for the railroad development (class

When many of us hear about New Orleans we think about Mardi Gras, casinos, and the French heritage. Tourists drive right by the deprived and less fortunate areas of Louisiana without even realizing it. Many people go visit New Orleans and doing so for a vacation without realizing how bad the poverty in this city is. Once realized how dramatic the poverty level is in New Orleans, these dismal areas are difficult to endure. It was August 29, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans.

New Orleans has been notable in recent history for its natural disasters, like hurricanes. The city has been historically planned and built to protect it from an environment that may endanger its citizens and the city landscape. However, whenever a natural disaster occurs, the question of how its damage could have been minimized always appears after the fact. These are events that happen to people outside of their control, but I personally feel that sometimes specific people are

Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive loss of life and billions of dollars in property damage. There are many lessons worth learning from this event. Finger pointing started before the event was over. Most of the focus on Hurricane Katrina was on its impact on New Orleans; however, the storm ravaged a much wider area than that. This paper will briefly summarize the event, the impact on the city of New Orleans and the lessons learned to ensure preparedness today.

Many programs such as The Sudbury & District health unit (SDHU) has over the years promoted health in a positive manner and how health is about equality. On their website is a video ‘Let’s Start a Conversation About Health…and Not Talk About Health Care at All’ (Health Equality, 2016). This video disregards focus from health care completely from waiting in the ED, shortages in health care practitioners such as physicians and nurses, to health care budgeting and costs. This was a very interesting point of view, the idea of separating health from health care has never really occurred to me and it’s something new I gained knowledge upon. This video concentrates on just health and instead of hospitals, it discusses public/community health, promoting healthy lifestyle choices, supporting healthy environments, healthy behavioral choices and the encouragement for policies to create awareness that health is a priority and should be focused on before health care (Health Equality, 2016).

The videos “Therapeutic Communication”, “Effective Listening”, and “Nonverbal Communication” created by Indiana University have the agreement that interviewers need to possess effective communication skill needed to conduct a proper interview. In order to have effective therapeutic communication the interviewer has to be aware of the different types of communication. The videos begins with an interview being conducted of a small group of students and experts on the matter giving concreate information and patient-based experience to answer questions.

The video has so much information about public health and is explained in detail with example that help I better understand what public health does than the previously two video. The information was present well and I like how she stop and do knowledge check because this make me remember the information. Also, majority of the information was new to me, before I know little information about public health and my perspective of the public health to be like the health care. However, this video has explained more about it in step about the history all the ways to the current practices that public health still contributes. I know that public health work on many areas that related to health and that it has many connection or partnership with other, whether the community, government and