HSCR Assignment

HSCR 360-01
Assignment III
Choose two of the following topics and respond the respective queries for each.
Due May 13 8am
Food Inc.
1. Describe the socio-economic factors that impact public/personal consumption of health foods?
2. Define CAFOs.
a. Compare the utilization of CAFOs to sustainable farming.
b. What are the stated adverse effects of CAFOs on our environment?
c. What are the state adverse effects of CAFOs on our consumption healthy food?
3. What do the following acronyms symbolize? Give a brief statement of how you think each should be responsible for our health and safety?
a. FDA
b. EPA
c. USDA
4. What are GMO foods? Give examples.

An Inconvenient Truth

1. Describe three (3) vectors of disease transmission that may benefit from global warming. Describe the diseases each is associated with.
2. Describe how global warming may impact
a. Precipitation
b. Drought
c. The impact of each on human population of affected areas
3. What is the impact of the degradation of the artic “permafrost”?
4. Describe the position of the United States relative to the Kyoto Protocol.

City of Houston Community Health Profile

1. What are the five components of the social-ecological model used by the City of Houston DHHS to describe factors that are social determinants of health? (Include subcomponents.) How does HDHHS categorize “health service areas”?
2. What is the percentage of residents that do not receive health care by personal doctors or health care providers for each health service area?
3. Compare the number of residents in areas A, B, and C, who reported having (1) a heart attack and (2) stroke.
4. Based on BMI categories which age group(s) in areas A, B and C tend to have the highest level of obesity? Which ethnic groups?
5. Which group had the higher proportions of their respective populations as diagnosed with diabetes?
6. Compare the rate of vaccine preventable disease in areas A, B and C.