What is the air quality? Are there particular industries, power plants, or high areas for auto emissions that affect health?
What is the air quality? Are there particular industries, power plants, or high areas for auto emissions that affect health?
Answer listed questions: 1. Visit the EPA My Environment site and enter the zip code of the community of your practicum agency. The link for this site is https://www.epa.gov/myenvironment/. There you will find headings for MyAir, MyWater, MyHealth, MyEnergy, MyLand, MyEnvironmentReports, and MyCommunity. Look through these headings to identify the hazards in the selected community. What is the air quality? Are there particular industries, power plants, or high areas for auto emissions that affect health? What about water quality? How might you advise community members to learn about their water quality? Are there significant toxic waste sites? What types of exposures are there in the community? 2. Assess the social environment of your chosen community. What aspects positive and/or negative of the Built Environment do you think influence the health of your community. 3. concerning the Flint, Michigan water compromise. Answer the four questions: What is the role of the public health nurse in addressing this issue? Which primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions could be applied? What are the ethical issues involved in this case? Can you identify issues related to environmental justice in this case? Cite any references used in answering these four questions that may be useful to others. 4. Develop a hypothetical contract with a group of elderly widows who need support and outlets to alleviate their loneliness. What other community members and professionals might be helpful as part of a collaborative team to address the widows needs? 5. Describe a legislative bill related to community health at either the state or federal level and the issues involved in it. Identify who is sponsoring the bill, who is opposing it, and why. Determine who will be affected by the bill if it passes and in what ways they will be affected. Discuss what you, as a community health nurse, could do to be involved in this bill. 6. Explain how you currently use health technology at your practicum site. Provide an example of how you might use big data in this course or in other Midway courses.