Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to engage you in critical reflection on the concept of where you live matters in terms of access to healthy foods, obesity, and even life expectancy.
Skills: This assignment will help you gain the following skills that are essential to your success in class:
Demonstrate critical thinking when providing a viewpoint and personal perspective.
Knowledge: This assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the discipline:
Understanding how social determinants of health are underlying, contributing factors of health inequalities.
Task:
Please go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJnm5X9NN0 (Links to an external site.)
and watch the 24-minute documentary entitled: The Weight of the Nation: Poverty and Obesity (if the link doesn’t work, please cut and paste the link in your browser)
Answer the following questions in a (minimum) 450-word response. Please number your answers and use 12-point font, double-spaced.
Briefly summarize the documentary’s main points in your own words. (150-word minimum)
How does this topic relate to readings from our textbook thus far? Include a minimum of two (2) citations* (quotes or paraphrased material) from our textbook to demonstrate a connection between your article and the text. (200-word minimum)
Briefly discuss at least one strategy that can help solve the issues raised in the documentary. (100-word minimum)
*Note: You do not need to include a Works Cited page. For each citation, please include the author’s last name and the page number from our textbook – for example (Alexander, p. 43).
Criteria for Success: The following rubric will be used for grading this assignment.
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