Module 3 - SLP School-Based Health Programs and Health Care Services

Module 3 - SLP School-Based Health Programs and Health Care Services

MHD521 - Perspectives in Community Health Education


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Using MAP-IT to help build a healthy community -

MAP-IT means: Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, and Track

To begin achieve the goal of improving health, a community must develop a strategy. That strategy, to be successful, must be supported by many individuals who are working together. In much the same way you might map out a trip to a new place, you can use the MAP-IT technique to 'map out' the path toward the change you want to see in your community.

For the Session Long Project (SLP) of this course, you will follow one of the following families:

1) A non-English speaking immigrant family. The parents, (35 year old father and a 31 year old mother) have a one-year old son. They (the parents) are obese, smokers, alcoholics and have only a high school education. Due to their weight, the mother has diabetes and high blood pressure, and the father has high blood pressure and kidney disease. The parents are a low income family with no insurance. You will guide the parents on how to achieve the minimum state health requirements for both the child and themselves, i.e. vaccination, good nutrition, a safe and healthy home environment etc.; or,

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