Reflections

10-1 Journal Reflection, Challenges, and Looking Forward

While I was taking this course, I have a acquired a great deal of knowledge regarding how a defined public health issues can be overcome or resolved. I also studied different areas of public health which has helped to improve my knowledge as a public health professional. Of all the reviewed journals, I am interested in minimising the maternal and infant mortality rate in Haiti and various other nations of the world. This topic is very valuable to me as a public health professional because maternal and infant mortality is considered as one of the most public health issues around the world and providing a strategy to resolve this issue will help my career as a public health professional.

The challenges I experienced while working through the material and assignment of this course was access to most recent information and data regarding the discussed public health issues. While trying to gather demographic information on Haiti, I discovered that the provided information was two years old and sources that provided recent information on Haiti’s demographic information were unreliable. Therefore, the information provided is considered as being unreliable.

The concept of this course will enable me to be effective in performing my role and responsibilities as a public health professional. With the knowledge I acquired from this course, I intend to work with some public health agency to develop programs that educate women on the importance on ante-natal and post-natal hospital visits. I will also be able to set-up a program that can convince child-birth attenders around the globe to go for more training so as to improve their knowledge regarding childbirth.