Overview
Develop a 45-page healthy-city initiative suitable for implementation by your city.By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Assess basic environmental health principles, theories, and issues.
Define the term environmental health.
Assess how healthy cities relate to environmental health.
Analyze obstacles for a city in becoming a healthy city.
Describe the financial issues involved in creating a healthy city.
Analyze how environmental health is an individual concern.
Analyze how environmental health is a global concern.
Competency 3: Apply personal and professional decisions based upon an understanding of environmental risks.
Describe how a city could become prepared for disasters.
Assess benefits of developing a healthy city to one’s self, family, and community.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Competency Map
Context
Government agencies play many roles that impact environmental health. The Assessment 6 Context document provides a brief overview of some of those roles. You may wish to review this document for key concepts and ideas on this topic.
Questions to Consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.For the following questions about disaster preparation, refer to the “Make a Plan” and “Test Your Readiness Quotient” resources linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading.
What kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made, are most likely to occur in your area?
How would you be notified of an emergency situation in your community?
How many of the Readiness Quotient Test questions would you be able to answer as “Yes”? What steps could you take to achieve 10 out of 10 “Yes” answers?
What is your disaster plan?
For the following questions about your personal impact on environmental health, consider the course as a whole.
What will you take away from this course?
Have you made any changes in your lifestyle?
Will you make any changes based on what you have learned?
Resources
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Assessment 6 Context.
Internet Resources
Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.
Transition US. (2013). Transition 101. Retrieved from http://transitionus.org/transition-101
Transition US. (2013). Organizing your initiative: Getting started. Retrieved from http://transitionus.org/knowledge-hub/organizing/g…
The Pachamama Alliance. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.pachamama.org/
World Health Organization. (2014). Healthy cities. Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environme…
Ready.gov. (2014, January 29). Make a plan. Retrieved from http://www.ready.gov/make-a-plan
This reading is presented as part of the Questions to Consider for this assessment. Note: You are encouraged but not required to complete the Questions to Consider.
The United States Army. (2008, September 11). Test your readiness quotient. Retrieved from http://www.army.mil/article/12318/Test_your_Readin…
This reading is a transcript that describes an Internet quiz that is no longer available online. However, the quiz questions that are presented in the reading can be used as a guideline for a self-analysis of your own readiness quotient.
This reading is presented as part of the Questions to Consider for this assessment. Note: You are encouraged but not required to complete the Questions to Consider.
Assessment Instructions
The purpose of this assessment is to consider aspects of what makes a healthy city and to integrate your research to provide strategies for individuals and communities to improve environmental health.To begin, suppose you are working with your city planner to develop a healthy city initiative for your city (or a city near you). You are tasked with developing a report that will be presented to your city council.Craft a 45-page written document that could be presented to your city council, addressing the following points:
What is environmental health?
Why is creating a healthy city important to environmental health?
What could your city do to become a healthy city?
What would be the obstacles to change, and why are they obstacles?
What financial issues would have to be considered?
How would these changes benefit you, your family, and your community?
What could your city do to become better prepared for disasters, both natural and human-made?
Why should environmental health be considered an individual concern? Why should it be considered a global concern?
What could you or your family doin your home, your neighborhood, and your workplaceto reduce your personal impact on the environmental health of your city?
