This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).

• CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO2)

Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box.

Please use Staten Island NY 10305

Choose one of the topic areas.

• My Health
• My Climate
• My Air
• My Water

Then, click on the boxes under the Map Contents menu to add data into the map on specific topics. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.

• Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, “I didn’t know _____.”
• How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?

Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit the following resources.

• Environmental health tracking: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/InfoByLocation/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Air quality: http://www.airnow.gov (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Toxic release inventory: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Systems-based and Collaborative Approach to Environmental Health Issues

ADDITIONAL INFO 

Systems-based and Collaborative Approach to Environmental Health Issues

Introduction

The United States is a large and complex country, with many different systems and stakeholders. Environmental health issues can often have unexpected effects that affect multiple systems simultaneously. Issues such as air quality, water quality and waste management are all affected by each other as well as human activity. For example, cities like Los Angeles have increased air pollution due to cars but also because fewer trees are being planted in the city due to drought conditions.

It is difficult to address environmental health issues in the United States, because they:

In the United States, environmental health issues are not isolated to one system. They can affect multiple systems, which makes them particularly challenging to address. These systems include:

• human health

• social justice and equity issues

• natural resources management (e.g., water quality)

and other aspects of society.

Involve multiple systems, which can affect one another or have unexpected impacts.

• Health, social and economic systems are all connected.

• The environment can affect health, social and economic systems.

• The economy can affect the environment (for example, by changing land use).

• Unintended consequences may result from inappropriate actions (for example, when you fill an area with toxic waste).

Occur in complex settings that include multiple stakeholders and institutions.

The environment is complex, and the causes of environmental health issues are not always clear. Environmental health issues can be caused by multiple factors, including environmental, social and economic factors. These factors interact with each other in complex ways that make it difficult to determine the cause(s) of an environmental health issue without further investigation.

Environmental Health Issues often occur in complex settings that include multiple stakeholders and institutions (e.g., industry). For example:

• A large manufacturing plant releases toxic chemicals into nearby groundwater; this causes an increase in cancer rates among nearby residents who drink from this source of drinking water (environmental component).

• A company dumps waste products into local lakes for disposal; these substances include heavy metals such as lead which contaminate fish species living in those waters (social component).

Can be caused by both intentional and unintentional actions.

The term environmental health is used to refer to the way a population experiences their environment. It may be caused by both intentional and unintentional actions, such as pollution, spills and contamination, natural disasters, climate change and disease.

Isolate stakeholder groups and prevent them from sharing information.

One of the most common ways to prevent stakeholders from sharing information is by isolating them. This can be done through physical separation, or it can happen via an organization’s structure. For example, if an organization has a department for environmental health that reports only to engineering and does not share with other departments (such as human resources), then there will be no effective collaboration between these groups.

Another way that organizations prevent stakeholders from collaborating effectively is by leading them astray with misinformation about what they should do or how they should work together. This tactic may seem harmless at first glance—after all, who wouldn’t want their company to succeed? But when managers start spreading unfounded rumors about why certain projects aren’t going well or why certain employees aren’t performing up to snuff—and then get blamed when things go wrong because everyone thinks these rumors are true—it makes sense why someone might lose faith in their leadership abilities!

By combining elements of different disciplines, a systems-based approach to environmental health issues can help address these challenges.

A systems-based approach is a way to look at environmental health issues that combines elements of different disciplines. It can help address the challenges associated with studying environmental health issues, such as:

• Examining multiple factors that affect an area or population

• Looking at the interactions between those factors

In order for a systems-based approach to work, you should first understand what it means for an area or population to be “systems-based”. In this context, we mean that there are connections between different parts of an ecosystem (e.g., humans and plants), which makes up one system or part within another larger system (e.g., humans living in cities). This interconnectedness means that changes in one part will affect other parts and vice versa—allowing us better insight into how our actions affect others around us!

Conclusion

The systems-based approach to environmental health issues can be a helpful way to address the challenges of this topic. By applying a systems thinking framework and looking at how different stakeholders interact, we can see how these problems are interconnected and make them easier to address. This approach also makes it possible for stakeholders in one area (like policy makers) to collaborate with those from another area (like researchers) so that they can work together on solving complex problems.