Reviewing+Your+Health+Topic

=DRAFT - Reviewing Your Health Issue - DRAFT= Divide class into groups according to their interest in a specific health issue and discuss their rationale for choosing their topic for creating a PSA and writing a proposal.

Process
The students will:
 * Divide into small grant writing groups (no more than four students to a group);
 * Clarify choice of a topic through an initial discussion of community need and support;
 * Brainstorm ideas on how to improve or develop a new program to deal with the chosen health issue;
 * Demonstrate the feasibility of simulating a health organization involved with the health issue or demonstrate the feasibility of performing services for the health issue by obtaining support from or working under a health organization;
 * Complete a teacher provided contract of group commitment to the grant topic;
 * Complete research worksheet.

Questions to Ask About Your Health Issue

 * 1) If your group obtained financial assistance and could tap into the necessary knowledge, how many medical/science skills do you have that can facilitate a solution to the health issue?
 * 2) How reliable were the resources and/or the medical research?
 * 3) In general, does government have unlimited resources to spend on health issues? What gives one issue priority over another?
 * 4) When is it the government’s responsibility (local, state, federal) to solve community health issues?
 * 5) After researching the role of federal and state government, did you find that funding was spread fairly evenly among categories: hereditary diseases, social issues, environmental issues?

Time Frame
__//**XX**//__ PBL Block classes

Attribution:
//Solving Health Problems in Your Community//, Health Career Resource Center, pp.57-58 ([|download PDF])