Critical Thoughts (W7P3)
I am really concerned about the attainability of many of the CDC recommendations. Should they be available to everyone, it would work spectacularly but the reality is, most schools, especially urban ones, are dramatically underfunded. That leaves the most effected populations even farther behind. Not only that but it relies on technology for success. The last thing that children need is to associate video games and technology with positive health outcomes. I agree with the simple changes in nutrition and information, however, I think there is a lot of putting posters up and expecting success. The best part of this success and the reason that the positives outweigh the negatives is because it places most emphasis on community involvement. It is actually incredible that so much community engagement is required. I think this plan would dramatically shift the chronic illness epidemic if people were required to follow it and not interpret it as they see fit because people will most likely skip the harder, more costly steps and allocate resources elsewhere.
How can the CDC work with school districts to ensure that all have access to technology that enhances health education? Can we enhance health education without technology and exergaming? What are the repercussions of exergaming? And why so many posters? What is the CDC doing to ensure that the posters are supplemental to intensive education? Next, I will be continuing with the CDC Virtual Healthy School Lab and looking further into what DMPS and Roosevelt is doing so that I can continue to build the best plan for our school district.
We learned in the pandemic that a large percentage of the populations will ignore CDC recommendations and guidelines even during a global health crisis. How else can we as a society get the word out? PSAs? Influencers?
ReplyDeleteI do think that children are more likely to follow advice when someone that is older or "cooler" tells them it. We need to have people being payed to come in and teach children about the posters and recommendations. Why not make them young and "cool"? I remember when we did a Women's Health class at Cowles through the Young Women's Resource Center. The teachers were in their young twenties and everyone loved them and enjoyed doing the class because we felt that they were not as hard to relate to. I think that would be easy to do with general Health and Wellness, we just need to increase college education about it, as well.
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