Overview
M6 Chat & Response: Classroom Chats and Responses are a place for you to share your personal experiences as it relates to the course content. You are expected to write at least one well- developed paragraph (6 sentences) that refers to the course content for the assignment module. In other words, you are expected to discuss the course content (i.e., videos, readings, presentations/lectures, course concepts) from each week in your chat. While we will not be grading on grammar, spelling, APA etc. in this discussion board, you are expected to write well and in your own words. Copy and pasted material from other sources will not be accepted.
You will be expected to have a total of 2 classroom chat posts in a week; both are due on Fridays. We encourage you to question your classmates and push them to think of issues in depth and with complexity. We will be doing this too. With that said, make sure you post in a way that is respectful of others. While this is more causal writing, you should still have a well-developed theme in each post, rather than a collection of random thoughts.
Original CC Post: To get full credit, your classroom chat post should 1) be at least 6 sentences, 2) discuss at least one of the course materials in relation to either a) a personal or clinical experience, b) another course resource or c) a resource outside the class, 3) provides a reflection on what you have learned.
Reflective writing is a response to new information you gained through learning. It is not summarizing or regurgitating information; rather it is reflecting on what you learned from the information. Reflective writing is an activity that includes description (what, when, who) and analysis (how, why, what if). It is an explorative tool often resulting in more questions than answers.
Response CC Post: Your response should 1) respond to one of your peer’s Original CC post 2) be at least 5 sentences, 3) be about a different topic than your Original CC post 3) compare or contrast your peer’s Original post to a) personal or clinical experience, b) another course resource, or c) a resource outside the class.
Burden of Disease: In this module, we discuss the different types of disease and unintentional injuries and the burden of each of these health issues on the world as a whole and how they vary in different areas of the world. In this assignment you are asked to define the different types of disease, as well as the burden of disease and provide an example of each. Next, you will be asked to compare the leading causes of deaths in two different countries. Then using what you’ve learned in the course to date about risk factors, the determinants of health, culture and health and other topics, discuss why you might see the differences in disease patterns between these 2 countries.