The posts featured on this Michigan Public Health Frontlines blog are from students, staff, and faculty while they are out in the field, practicing public health on the frontlines. Read on for stories from global health field experiences and the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST).
Every culture is significantly different in terms of what they eat, how they prepare their food, how often they exercise and more! It is not appropriate to disregard these important aspects of another culture when trying to implement various interventions.
As humans, we tend to revert to our own life experiences as indicators of how we should respond to certain situations. While I wait for these next few days to pass, I cannot help but wonder how this will all play out.
Today I'd like to share some thoughts about forgotten people. The concept was first introduced to me as a child with the faces on milk cartons and newspapers of missing children who had been missing for 20 plus years but still had advertisements out for them. It was so easy to think, "nope haven't seen 'em," flip the page, recycle, and forget.
It is estimated that less than half of American children achieve the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Hurley, a student enrolled in PH 615: Public Health in Action, will be traveling to Texas over spring break to help assess school physical activity policies in Brownsville, Texas.
Follow students in PUBHLTH 616 apply classroom theory to the field while working to meet needs identified by key agencies in Grenada.
Nine Michigan Public Health grad students will be flying down to the Rio Grande Valley during their spring break as members of the Public Health Action Support Team, or PHAST.