Integrating STEAM Education into Public Health Practice

Integrating  STEAM Education into public health Practice


     Integrating STEAM Education into public health practice is an excellent concept that has the promise of implementing interventions that can be transferable to increasing sustainability, particularly in National nutrition quality and resource allocation . An excellent example of how this can be accomplished  can be observed in the following educational strategies recently implemented by NASA . The thermal and fluids analysis work shop encourages knowledge sharing , professional development , and networking throughout the thermal and fluids. The engeenering community with in NASA , academia , and the aerospace community at large can benefit from the program (NASA,2017). Learning about thermal dynamics allows the comprehension of how the human body self regulates its own thermal system to accomidate to environmental thermal dynamics , particularly in climatological changes and how the human body responds to these changes . STEAM faculty and University students are encourage to attend , submit a poster , a paper  and they also offer training . Registration to attend a work shop is free and participants interested in presenting material in the conference through manuscript submission or poster are recieved through May 19th 2017 .

     Interested persons can visit the website . Another very interesting detail in learning about fluid dynamics can be observed in the thermodynamic secundary law which postulates that if a cup of water is placed in the center of a room , the surrounding environmental temperature will influence the temperature of the water and can regulate the waters temperature to reach a balance between them , this is an important  law that can also assist the individual in climate adaptation. These concepts not only assist humans to adapt and comprehend whats occuring in their bodies function as environmental  temperature increase but provide public health tools to implement strategies in health care system that lead to sustainability and quality health care .


References

NASA (2017) Thermal and Fluids Work Shop  .Retrieved from http://www.nasa.com

The Epidemic

In February 2016 the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a special report in The New England Journal of Medicine alerting the Medical Community , including providers ,policy makers , and drug manufacturers about the growing epidemic of opioid abuse, addiction and overdose (Value based Care,2016). An epidemic directly related to the increasing widespread use of powerful opioid pain medications (Goodman, 2016). Opioid or prescription drug misuse is growing concern to public health professionals ; nearly 2.4 million people in the United States currently struggle with a  SUD  substance use disorder directly related to prescription drug ,  approximatly half a million people have an SUD related to heroin (SAMSHA,2016). The U.S Food and Drug administration has approved three different medications to treat opioid addiction (1) Methadone , (2) Naloxone , and (3) Buprenorphine . Research shows  that a combination of medication and psychosocial therapy is often the most successful approach in treating opioid addiction, how ever Naloxone is essentially an  antidote that is administered during an overdose to prevent cardiopulmonary injury during an overdose and is contraindicated n people who are recieving Methadone therapy . In addition Naloxone has side affects and are to be administered by trained personell .  Prevalence of opioid abuse are higher among women ; individuals aged 60 to 69 and in those who rate their health as poor , as well as those individuals who have been hospitalized during the last year.  Estimates of the prevalence of persons who suffer from chronic pain are currently between 39 million and 100 million people a very large at risk cohort in  addressing the issue , but its more complex than that because chronic pain are influenced by culture , past experience with pain , socio ecoomic status and cognition . These factors affect the way in which pain is percieved and affect  the identification of addictive behavior ; particularly in the aging who have a decreased neurological function related to an aging physiological status . In addition to this over 70 % of all prescription pain killers are dispenced to the elderly , in  fact in the year 2016 over 254 million pain medication prescriptions  were dispenced making this public health issue all the more pressing.



References

Goodman, A(2016) Provider Education the Key to Preventing the Growing Epidemic of Misuse and Abuse in Opioid Prescription for Chronic Pain , the FDA Enphasises. Pain Management Value Based Rheumatology vol5 no 3

SAMSA (2016) The CBHSQ Report . Retrieved from http://www.samsha.gov/data/sites/default/filesreport_2117/shortreport-2117.pdf