This is Public Health

This is a picture of the water cooler in my office at work. To me this is a very important part of public health. Not only is this meant to be a convenience for workers, it is meant to keep them healthy and hydrated while they work. Can you imagine if your workplace didn't have water available to drink? Considering water is essential to life and one of the most critical parts of overall health, workplace water coolers exemplify public health to me!

-Merilee Kartchner

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The war on advertisement is on! This is Public Health showing exactly what happens when you smoke. You lose a lung. Yes Bob, it will be gone.

-Adriana Lovo

This photo shows, unfortunately, what public health is becoming in the United States. As a general public, we lack either the education and/or the desire to make smart, nutritional decisions when it comes to food. We eat too much fast food without thinking of the negative consequences, and, for this reason, obesity is rising rapidly. Through Public Health, we can educate the public and convince them to make healthier decisions in food choices and exercise, rather than wait until McDonald's opens at 5am like these two ladies. As a society, we can all make healthier decisions and avoid negative effects of being unhealthy.

- Jimmy Gillespie

"When you have fat friends, there are no see-saws, only catapults."

THIS IS PUBLIC HEALTH!

After the year 1968 every car in the United States had to pass an emissions and safeties test. Helping us have a better quality of air and preventing injuries caused on the reckless roads.

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This is Public Health to me because seatbelts protect and prevent injuries in the car.

-Taylor Powell

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Exercise is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. Many children don't get much exercise as they are busy playing video games or watching TV. Everyday at school my brother is given time in addition to recess to run on the track. This is public health!

Lance Stutz

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I'm Evelyn Ponce, this is what I thought of when I thought about what I felt Public Health meant; providing people with easy and safe ways to exercise, walk to school or just go on a leisurely walk. This bridge is the only thing that makes it possible for people at this point to go from one side of Provo river to the other.

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To me, this picture is the epitome of Public Health: it's my mom recovering in the hospital after surgery. Without Public Health, we wouldn't have important hospital regulations that keep patients safe--we probably wouldn't even have hospitals at all! Everything about hospitals is Public Health.

-Jenna Hoffman

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This is the Broad Street water pump in London, England. During the cholera outbreak of 1854 616 people died from infection. The water pump was linked to the outbreak and when the handle was removed the deaths stopped proving the importance of sanitation and hygiene. In short the importance of public health.

Michelle Saltzman

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( I did this from the "This is Public Health" Iphone app)

I am an avid believer in breast feeding. Not only are there ample benefits to the mother for breast feeding her children, such as lower risks of ovarian cancer, the benefits are passed on to the breast-fed child. Children who were not breast fed are not only at much higher rates of contracting various diseases such as diabetes or Crohn's Disease, but are susceptible to poor oral health and reoccurring dental caries.

There are numerous benefits of breast feeding, however, one in particular is the amazing connection it gives a mother to her child. It truly is a blessing given to families to be able to provide for their children in such a beautiful way.

-Matt Evans

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My name is Crystal Wojcik and this is one of the greatest aspects of Public Health to me. I am so greatfull for safe ways to be able to be able to exercise in the beautiful environment around me.

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My name is Emily Adawi and this is public health. (Health 100 Section 1)

All to often we limit our view of public health to physical health. However health is includes our mental, spiritual, and emotional well being in addition to our physicality. This picture shows a variety of stress relievers. Stress is a high risk factor for multiple chronic diseases including heart attack and stroke. Sleep helps to rejuvenate through increasing our serotonin levels and decreasing cortisol. Laughter and relaxation are also helpful stress relievers. The scriptures and church in general serves as a support system through which we can find comfort. Support systems are also helpful stress relievers. Our mental state usually manifests itself through our physical well being and managing our mental state is essential to increasing our functionality and quality of life.

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My name is Haleigh Barrett. This is public health to me.

A BPA Free water bottle promotes a hydrated, active, and clean life-style for me. This water bottle allows me to always have fresh, clean, and cool water to drink (as long as I fill up!). When I drink out of my water bottle in front of other people, it reminds them to stay hydrated and drink water. No one puts soda in a WATER bottle.

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This is a sneaker. Public health to me is about the promotion of healthy behavior. We can walk every day and it is a great way to improve our physical fitness and to loss weight. Healthy life style is public health to me.

Areum Hwang

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In a very simple way, this represents Public Health to me because it shows how having places that encourage physical activity is beneficial to the welfare of a community. Having a basket ball court where people live or a park nearby gives opportunity for physical, emotional, and social development, and therefore represents Public Health.

Mary Brown

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This is Public Health in a very obvious, but profound way. We all have to get to class somehow if we live off campus, and bikes are the perfect way to go! They are affordable and a great exercise tool! Some diet experts say that biking is a better way to lose weight than running. Biking everyday to class has helped with my asthma and adapting to the high altitude! Unfortunately, the paper towels below the bike are not Public Health. Let's remember to clean up our community always! Because a healthy individual can lead to a healthy community.

Kelly Hicks

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Habit altering Personal
Understanding of health issues Begin with
teaching and Learning in the
Intimacy of the family
and the local Community

Lifelong Healthy
Eating habits and
Attitudes
are best Learned in
The Home

Marie-Luise Smith, Health Science 100: Intro to Public Health, Sec. 1

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I think this is public health because smoking can cause serious illness not only person who smokes but also person around people. Secondary smoking can cause more illness than primary smoking. Therefore, prohibition on smoking in public area can be pubic health.

- Minyoung, Song

THIS is Public Health

Public health to me is about education and prevention. This includes teaching healthy habits like brushing your teeth and promoting healthy choices and opportunities from a very early age. The second picture is an example of my 4 year old cousin who is already planning her future as a doctor. She loves to role play with her baby doll, taking care of her and advising her how to have a "healthy heart."

This is the FUTURE of Public Health.

~Callie Thackeray

Mark 7:2-4; And when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. For the pharisees and all the Jews except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.


I think it is interesting how even back then, it was considered unholy and wrong if they did not wash their hands and food before eating. I am grateful for modern revelation and how they have taught us the importance of clean hands and food. I feel like clean food and hands is a big part of public health and the Temple is by far the purest and cleanest place that we can find!

---- Richard Jones

My name is Emily Egbert and my little brother was born with a foot deformity called clubfoot. At the time of his birth the only form of treatment was surgery which is extremely detrimental to the feet. So to me public health means promoting the a non-surgical casting form of treatment called the Ponseti method which slowly corrects the feet without any long-term negative effects.

-Emily Egbert

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A large part of public health includes both protection and prevention. As for the Utah vs. BYU game tonight, our campus took the liberty of protecting statues around campus from our opponents. This is public health because students worked together to rise up against the unfavorable in hopes of a better tomorrow (or in this case, score against the Utes) with syran wrap. By taking the necessary measures to protect ourselves as a society (and university) against potentially harmful aspects of the world around us, we demonstrate public health.

--Annabelle Hyatt

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What is the universal "first thought" when it comes to getting healthy? Either diet, or exercise, in the form of RUNNING. Good running shoes are important, as comfort is an important factor in maintaining the desire/motivation to continue the exercise. So whether you associate this sticker with the shoe, or with the activity, THIS IS PUBLIC HEALTH!

-Timothy Perdue

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With hundreds of labs on campus, BYU has an enormous job managing all of the biological and chemical waste. It is important that standards are kept and met so that the enviroment and subsequently us are protected.

- Nick Teodoro

One reason public health still exists is due to those in the field's awareness of the need for adaptability of the definition overtime. To me, my sixteen year old brother with his laptop on, headphones in, texting his girlfriend is the definition of public health as it expands and changes with each generation. (Plus he thinks the sticker is a pretty cool asset to his computer.)
-Heather Eaton

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Awareness and education are two of the most important parts of Public Health.Cures and preventions would be pointless if never conveyed to the public. Missionaries are great examples of community members well educated in the benefits of Public Health who return their knowledge to help bless others!

-Bryant Giles

Public Health Sticker

This is a water pump up at south fork canyon. This is a great example of public health to me because without a clean water supply, enabled by the creation of things like standpipes and water kiosks by public health workers, life would be a lot more difficult.

-Austin Brockbank

This is MY public health

This is a co-op food basket with fresh, local fruits and vegetables. This embodies public health to me because the effort to run a co-op is an example of a community working together to improve their health through nutrition.

-Eliza Houghton

Fall Semester Students

Hi students!

Please post your This is Public Health Sticker assignment here, if you have any problems please contact me (the TA, Jessica Church) at byuhealthta@gmail.com.