Unnatural Causes In Sickness and in Health Discussion

Boston University Unnatural Causes In Sickness and in Health Discussion

Background

It’s easy to think that if we just exercise or eat organic food we’ll be healthy, but as we’ve learned in this module it’s a bit more complicated than that. Many of the determinants of our health and wellness are not within our direct individual control. In this assignment, we’ll remind ourselves of what health and wellness disparities exist and we’ll remind ourselves of how some factors beyond our control may cause those disparities with reference to UNNATURAL CAUSES: Episode 1 – In Sickness and in Wealth.

This assignment mimics, at a very basic level, the sort of intake information that public health officials like Dr. Adewale Troutman (the Director of Public Health & Wellness in Louisville, KY) use to develop the very frameworks and programs that Dr. Troutman discusses.

Instructions

For each of the four people profiled in Unnatural Causes: Episode 1 – In Sickness and in Health (Jim Taylor, Tondra Young, Corey Anderson, and Mary Turner) provide the following information:

Educational background and current occupation;

Brief list/description of their identities — e.g., race, age, sex, level of education, marital status, description of family, general state of health, et cetera; and

A discussion of at least three environmental, life/lifestyle, and economic factors for each person that contribute to or detract from their health and well-being. [Be sure to (a) identify the three factors, (b) describe how they play out i the lives of the person, and (c) discuss how the factor contributes/detracts from that person’s health and well-being.]