Assignment

For Cross-Cultural Health Perspectives and taking into account what you learned studying about Weight-Loss Interventions for Hispanic Populations: The Role of Culture.  Prepare a Reflective Essay in which you address each of the following items:

• Describe how this course contributed to improving your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself as part of this session.
• Evaluate the work you did during the session for this class and explain ways you could have performed better.
• Identify topics that you did not understand or successfully implement, and suggest how to improve the course material on those topics.
• Think of ways to measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
• State whether you achieved the Course Outcomes. (found below)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:

• Module 1 
  • Describe the role of culture as it influences health behaviors.
• Module 2 
  • Apply a culture-centered health education program planning model to a specific cultural group.
  • Assess the impact of cultural beliefs, values, and traditions on health education efforts.
• Module 3 
  • Examine cultural competence within the context of health care.
  • Apply a culture-centered health education program planning model to a specific cultural group.
• Module 4 
  • Apply a culture-centered health education program planning model to a specific cultural group.
  • Discuss how factors such as culture, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status influence health behaviors and health status.
• Module 5 
  • Compare and contrast types of medical language interpretation and describe "best practices."
  • Apply a culture-centered health education program planning model to a specific cultural group.
• Module 6 
  • Prepare and submit a self-reflective essay.

• No references needed.
• No limit on word count.