What advice does Tom Quade have for public health workers as we begin to better understand the ways in which climate change affects health?

Why are issues caused by global climate change everyone’s problem? Why does the drought in Somalia, the air pollution in China, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, or the amount of bread consumed in the UK matter to everyone? How do individual actions and behaviors build into a larger, more impactful, problem?

What are the issues with single stream recycling? Why is single stream recycling like trying to “unscramble an egg”? Where does the majority of your recycling go? What can you do before your next recycling day pickup that would make a difference? What happens if one person on your recycling route doesn’t follow the rules?

What are 5 things you could easily start doing that would make your environmental footprint smaller? As an example, I turn off the faucet when I brush my teeth. 2 minutes of water, twice a day, at 2.2 gallons per minute flowing from a bathroom faucet, I save 8.8 gallons of water a day just by not having the water flowing when I brush my teeth. Added up over a year, I personally prevent 3,212 gallons of water from just flowing down the drain for no reason. What can you do? Maybe make a better effort of following the rules for recycling? Turn off your car while you’re waiting to get your gas pumped (reducing idling?) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSHsa8-VDj0&index=6&list=PLDjqc55aK3kzeVkAzuc1j4eJ4xXJe-X_W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0yGpJuCU4M&index=8&list=PLDjqc55aK3kzeVkAzuc1j4eJ4xXJe-X_W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owbb5jfx9dA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuyLbK_jeRU

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/27/517531611/whats-the-environmental-footprint-of-a-loaf-of-bread-now-we-know

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/396319000/with-single-stream-recycling-convenience-comes-at-a-cost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8xwLWb0lLY

1. Clearly, mental illness is a contributory factor in some people’s homelessness. Conversely, homelessness is a contributory factor in some people’s mental illness. Based on the SAMHSA Homelessness reading and the Oregonian article, tell me how you think homelessness and mental health are connected. 

2. (Not Just a Paycheck) When a Swedish-owned company closed manufacturing plants in Greenville, Michigan, and Vastervik, Sweden, why did the health of Greenville residents quickly deteriorate while health outcomes in Vastervik remained steady?

3. (Becoming American) According to the film, Latino immigrants who have lived here five years or more are one and half times more likely to have high blood pressure than when they first arrived. Why do recent Mexican immigrants to the United States, though typically poorer, have better health than the average American? What conditions in America erode their health advantages over time? What are other examples from the film of how health outcomes get worse, not better, over time?

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/02/512505625/hey-wait-don-t-eat-that-sneezing-chimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8wjxW4U4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywdmdyy-S4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q8xv6wilQs

http://who.int/features/2015/ebola-epidemiologist-freetown/en/

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/475003055/numbers-lie-even-more-than-usual-in-greenland

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