Grapes Of Wrath Reflection
Alejandra Rodas
PUBH 410 Final
Reading and analyzing fiction to study historical and contemporary public health challenges is an important aspect to the curriculum because it helps us identify issues that occurred in the past that can be relevant to present day problems as well as give public health actors possible solutions.
Another reason why analyzing fiction is relevant to the curriculum is to identify different factors that can contribute to public health issues. Reading the four novels helped us understand more thoroughly that race, status, and many other factors can contribute to our curricular themes.
Reading historical fictions can help us analysis problems in the past and see how public health has evolved. It also gives us a better understanding on how public health has and will change throughout the years.
Herland
I learned that feminism could be apart of a public health issue. The book gives readers an insight on how conditions of women’s lives are worse than those of men. It provides a life course perspective on Public Health. This novel is a good example of it evolution in the perspective of women. There are many factors that prevent women from economic, social, and cultural gains in order to meet their health needs. The central themes of public health …show more content…
The lesson I learned from Grapes of Wrath was the importance of the One health theme. The idea of One health is that there is a relationship between human health, animal health, and the environment. In Grapes of Wrath, the destruction caused by the Dust Bowl left thousands of families homeless with no source of income or food. Since the environment was damaged it led to a distress in resources for food and jobs. This correlates to public health because it leads to many health factors being influenced due to an environment
PUBH 410 Final
Reading and analyzing fiction to study historical and contemporary public health challenges is an important aspect to the curriculum because it helps us identify issues that occurred in the past that can be relevant to present day problems as well as give public health actors possible solutions.
Another reason why analyzing fiction is relevant to the curriculum is to identify different factors that can contribute to public health issues. Reading the four novels helped us understand more thoroughly that race, status, and many other factors can contribute to our curricular themes.
Reading historical fictions can help us analysis problems in the past and see how public health has evolved. It also gives us a better understanding on how public health has and will change throughout the years.
Herland
I learned that feminism could be apart of a public health issue. The book gives readers an insight on how conditions of women’s lives are worse than those of men. It provides a life course perspective on Public Health. This novel is a good example of it evolution in the perspective of women. There are many factors that prevent women from economic, social, and cultural gains in order to meet their health needs. The central themes of public health …show more content…
The lesson I learned from Grapes of Wrath was the importance of the One health theme. The idea of One health is that there is a relationship between human health, animal health, and the environment. In Grapes of Wrath, the destruction caused by the Dust Bowl left thousands of families homeless with no source of income or food. Since the environment was damaged it led to a distress in resources for food and jobs. This correlates to public health because it leads to many health factors being influenced due to an environment