Honors Seminar V & VI: Aesthetics, Values, and Authority Challenges in Healthcare (IDH 3034 & IDH 3035)
Learning About Medicine
During this Global Learning course, I was able to learn how to measure my blood pressure and heart rate. Additionally, I learned how to use an otoscope, which is an instrument to look at the eardrum, and how to use an ophthalmoscope, which is an instrument to observe the inner and back part of the eye. The knowledge and skillset I learned are vital to my future career in medicine. Additionally, these tools better help diagnose patients and prevent or cure illness globally.
Dengue Fever Presentation
As a group, we researched the transmission, causes, symptoms, and prevention of Dengue Fever. During this project, I gained a global perspective by becoming aware that this illness impacts the whole world. Thus, education about the disease is important for prevention. I also understand how disease can spread rapidly from one country to the next because we are all interconnected. I learned that it is very important to spread information globally and to work as one unit, one world, to alleviate the social determinants of health and in turn improve our health.
Honors Seminar: Bridging the Distance Between Us- A Practical, Multidisciplinary Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health (IDH 3034 & IDH 3035)
Royal Green Service Learning Project on Childhood Obesity
There is a growing concern regarding childhood obesity worldwide. In this service-learning project, I aimed to teach elementary school students (ages 8-13) the importance of exercising every day for at least an hour and to raise awareness of the risks of unhealthy eating in order to reduce childhood obesity in our local community. Determining how greasy potato chips are, performing jumping jacks, and explaining the food pyramid to elementary students were a variety of simple tasks designed to reduce the effects of long-term diseases in our community. When asking a student what he had learned, he replied that our program provided him with knowledge to better understand nutritional labels on packages and the importance of exercising. He expressed that he is going to involve all his family. These comments made me realize that we did not only impact the lives of these children but the lives of many others, which forms a ripple effect to spread awareness of the dangers of childhood obesity in South Florida. This project changed my perspective on the health topic relating to obesity because just simple events like this project could go a long way in reducing the effects of long-term diseases. After our service-learning project, I was able to understand the importance of teaching young children in order for them to become aware of the risks’ obesity brings. These lessons I have learned will develop and continue serving me throughout my journey. All in all, our service-learning project was a success because it touched the lives of 75 children, which in turn will form a domino effect to spread awareness of the importance of staying active and eating healthy to ultimately reduce childhood obesity in our community.
Theatre Appreciation (THE 2000)
Tartuffe play
After watching the play Tartuffe, I agree that Molière believed that the duty of comedy is to correct human vices by exposing them and mocking them to absurd extreme because even though this play was a comedy, I still learned many lessons. Additionally, he believed that human behavior should be governed by reason and moderation, which is evident in the play’s lesson. This play taught me many things, such as do not be extreme when making decisions, it is better to be driven by reason and common sense, and to not make decisions based solely on emotions or passions. This means to me that people who take advantage of nice people who try to help them, will in the long run be caught. If you do bad, bad will most likely return to you! Also, it is important to listen to your family’s advice and not be so naïve when making decisions. Lastly, people can be misleading and hypocrites, so it is important to be selective of who you trust. Overall, I really enjoyed watching and learning from this play.
Introduction to Sociology (SYG 2000)
In Class Discussions
During this course, I learned about social structure and social interaction with emphasis on social institutions. Worsening inequality makes life worse for my community, my family, and myself today and in my future through economic, health and political issues. When the wealth inequality increases, health inequalities increase. This leads to life expectancies to decrease and not allow everyone an equal opportunity to healthcare. This will affect the future generations because if they are not in the top then automatically their life expectancy will decrease because health and wealth go hand-in-hand. This will lead to chronic diseases and high blood pressure in lower, underserved neighborhoods. Additionally, income inequalities will lead to people being in debt because the middle-class will feel as if they should in order to not feel poor. In order to avoid this outcome, people have started to wait more to retire. Lastly, gender inequality also has an impact in wealth inequality because women tend to get paid less than men due to companies being fearful of having to pay for maternity leave. All in all, the worsening inequality will have impacts on retirement, healthcare costs, and life expectancies.
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