Question

1. Distinguish between public health and population health 2. Describe options for giving back. 3. Determine differences between coaching and mentoring, 4. Discuss the steps in developing a learning contract. 5. Describe how to give a good speech.

Answer 1

1) Public health deals with more of what we can do collectively to make people healthy wheras population health measurement of health outcomes and the pattern of determinants.  Determinants include medical care, public health interventions, genetics, and individual behavior, along with components of the social (e.g., income, education, employment, culture) and physical (e.g., urban design, clean air, water) environments.

2) Giving back means how can one help the community for general good. There are options like:

• volunteering
• making donations
• offering your skills
• Sharing credit card rewards

3) Coaching is short term and more of formal and structured process wheras mentoring is informal and long term process of guiding someone that basically on the basis of mutual trust.

4) Developing a learning contract

1. Determine learning objectives based on student learning needs
2. Choose learning resources and activities
3. Select learning products that will demonstrate learning
4. Set completion dates
5. Determine assessment strategies
6. Review, revise and implement the contract