3.2 - Vulnerable Populations

After reading and watching the videos from the module I started to think about population education. Do the populations at risk, or parents of population at risk, know that they are at risk? Are we doing a good job as far as educating, or providing the education? Is information obtainable? Are people able to understand the information? (Health literacy)

I pose these types of questions because for me, if it weren't for this class, I wouldn't be as informed of the potential harms of day to day environmental exposures. Accessing data. With the advancement of technology and social media, I feel there needs to be more creative ways to reach populations at risk.
Just some food for thought.

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  1. Ayla EvinsSeptember 16, 2018 at 4:21 PM

    Hi Jenay -
    Yes! I completely agree. I have learned so much just in the last couple of weeks by taking this class but I'm not sure I would know as much as I do without this class. I think so many people don't even know they are at risk! And even if they do, I'm not sure they fully understand the implications. For example, my sister and her husband think that tap water is bad for them (which in many cases it does have harmful substances in it) - but instead of tap water, they exclusively drink water from plastic waster bottles. They buy big cases of them at Costco and basically refuse to drink any water unless it is filtered from a water bottle. I consistently urge them to just get a water filter for their tap rather than use so many plastic waster bottles. In the past I mostly tried to tell them how bad it was for the environment, but now I am urging them to stop using plastic water bottles because of the potential it has to impact their health!

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