Local Environmental Health Assignment (1)-25e0oqb
During my fourth semester at Ohio State, I enrolled in a public health course focusing on environmental issues. My specialization is in sociology, however, I have always been interested in the environment and know that health is largely influenced by it.
This course was made up of two main assignments: a local and a global one. Every student was assigned a state for the local paper and a country for the global paper.
The goal of both assignments was to gain understanding about a current environmental issue and propose a solution to address the issue.
For this particular assignment, I was given the task to write about Massachusetts. Through researching issues on the state’s local Environmental Protection Agency, I decided to focus on lead poisoning and its effects on children.
This assignment allowed me to gain knowledge about a different area of the country and to propose a solution to an issue of concern and predict its outcomes.