Red Blood Cell and Public Policy
1.5 Constructing Your Health Decisions
1. For your assignment you will organize information to include influences on your health, a family member’s health or the health of another person.
Be sure to include: at least two examples of different influences by media, technology, or public policy on you, your family, or community the effect of these influences on everyone’s health the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health.
2. Use the organizer below to help you brainstorm your ideas.
3. Once you have organized your ideas, you will create and submit an essay, PowerPoint, video, or collage as your final project.
PROJECT ORGANIZER
A. Example one of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is _________________________________________________________________
B. What type of effect has it had on health? _________________________________________________________________
A. Example two of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is ___________________________________________________________________
B. What type of effect has it had on health? ___________________________________________________________________
What is the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health? __________________________________________________________________
Essay: If you have chosen to write an essay, complete your writing below.
Media influences our health constantly. One example would be magazines and television showing stick thin girls and claiming that this is what “beautiful” looks like. This portrays girls who are even a smidge bigger in a bad light and alters girl’s images of healthy and beautiful. This can lead many girls to Anorexia and Bulimia because they are determined to look like the girls that they see in the lime light. Anorexia can cause serious health issues like heart problems, kidney failure, loss of menstrual
1. For your assignment you will organize information to include influences on your health, a family member’s health or the health of another person.
Be sure to include: at least two examples of different influences by media, technology, or public policy on you, your family, or community the effect of these influences on everyone’s health the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health.
2. Use the organizer below to help you brainstorm your ideas.
3. Once you have organized your ideas, you will create and submit an essay, PowerPoint, video, or collage as your final project.
PROJECT ORGANIZER
A. Example one of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is _________________________________________________________________
B. What type of effect has it had on health? _________________________________________________________________
A. Example two of Media, Technology, or Public Policy (pick one) influencing health is ___________________________________________________________________
B. What type of effect has it had on health? ___________________________________________________________________
What is the responsibility a person has for enhancing one’s health? __________________________________________________________________
Essay: If you have chosen to write an essay, complete your writing below.
Media influences our health constantly. One example would be magazines and television showing stick thin girls and claiming that this is what “beautiful” looks like. This portrays girls who are even a smidge bigger in a bad light and alters girl’s images of healthy and beautiful. This can lead many girls to Anorexia and Bulimia because they are determined to look like the girls that they see in the lime light. Anorexia can cause serious health issues like heart problems, kidney failure, loss of menstrual