Environmental and Occupational Health Issues in Public Health

There is a call for volunteers to support clinics in Daly City among other areas, as posted by the San Mateo Medical Center. As far as volunteering for disaster response teams, there is nothing on their website as of now. I was unable to look at the Disaster Healthcare Volunteers website since it was under maintenance, so I was unable to check if they have ways to provide healthcare training and experience to individuals who do not have them but show a willingness to volunteer. I think providing opportunities to educate and train more people to provide health care in emergency situations would be more beneficial than to wait for people with prior health care training and experience to come up and volunteer.

I find how some politicians and industries (oil and coal unsurprisingly) are doing so much to undermine the science behind climate change to be the most troubling. It has been proven that while we are slowly bringing us closer to our own demise, it is very much ramping up to get there even faster. It's frustrating that people still choose something as temporary as money over making the right and necessary changes to address climate change. In relation to this, I think the greatest work we can do as public health professionals is to bring the information to the people. One of the videos emphasizes that we have the biggest role in addressing these issues by speaking up. If more and more people become informed, more and more people can voice their concerns about climate change. The more we talk about it at the grassroots level, the more we can work towards positive change in relation to climate change. I would use scientific information and do my best to present it in a way that ord...

Much like how Lauren Singer described herself, I am one to be super sentimental with things. For example, I kept a plastic water bottle we bought from Stanford University because, well, it was a water bottle from Stanford University. At the end of the day, it's just a plastic water bottle, and Stanford University is just an hour or so drive away. Back home in the Philippines, we would keep the plastic bags we get from grocery shopping (or wherever else) to be used again. I would bring them when I go to overnight events to keep my dirty or wet clothes in. As for working towards a zero waste life, one thing I need to practice here is using my own reusable bags or containers when I go grocery shopping. We would always bring our reusable bags back in the Philippines. However, I don't do a lot of my own grocery shopping since most of our food at home is provided. I also think focusing on only what's necessary product-wise is an important step I have to take. While I don't co...