Reflection

Choose one of the following questions to answer as an initial post. Then respond to one peer. Refer to the syllabus for due dates of initial post and peer response.

Week 4: Chapters 7 and 8

1. Briefly describe the effects of personal health behavior (e.g., tobacco use, risky drinking, diet, and physical activity) on individual and population health status and health care costs in the United States. How have health behavior change programs and interventions changed over the past 40 years?
2. What are vulnerable populations? Where do you encounter such vulnerable people in your daily life? How is our health care delivery system fragmented? How does this fragmentation affect vulner­able populations? What are some ways that we, as a nation, could improve delivery of health care services to vul­nerable populations? Feel free to mention ideas presented in the textbook, as well as any of your own.