A Drive Through the Community
The decisions you make impact your community. This includes making healthy choices about your future career, the way you treat the environment, and the way you support others who experience challenges in their lives. In this module, you will gain a better understanding of healthcare, and discover whether you would like to have a job that falls under this umbrella. You will also learn about environmental factors that impact your community, and how your actions and the decisions of legislators affect people’s health locally and globally. Furthermore, you will explore how healthcare providers, health insurance, and public health agencies can help you gain access to the care you need throughout life. Finally, you will gain an understanding of possible challenges others in your community experience, and ways you can volunteer to help support them.
Getting Started
When you think of your future, what does it look like? On a piece of paper, draw a picture that encompasses your vision of your college or career after high school, what your home looks like, what your neighborhood looks like, and who is living in your community.
Key Vocabulary
To view the definitions for these key vocabulary terms, visit the course glossary.
Allied Health-Care Providers
Beautify
Conservation
Department of Health and Human Services
Enable
Environment
Food bank
Greenhouse Effect
Hazardous Wastes
Health Insurance
Health-Care Providers
Homeless
Immunization
Intellectual Disabilities
Medicaid
Medicare
Motivate
Nuclear Wastes
Particulates
Poverty
Recycling
Reinforce
Runoff
Volunteer