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6. Disease-Illness Prevention


Overview: Disease and Illness Prevention

Goal: To demonstrate an understanding of the nature of communicable and non-communicable disease and the human body and to describe how lifestyle, pathogens, family history and other risk factors are related to the cause and prevention of disease and how individuals can reduce these risk factors and manage chronic illness.


Life Skills
  • Technology
  • Research
  • Reading
  • Presentation
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Writing
  • Critical Thinking
  • Creative Thinking
  • Positive Values
  • Citizenship
  • Classification
Developmental Assets
  • Responsibility - Young person accepts and takes personal responsibility.
  • Restraint - Young person believes it is important not to be sexually active or to use alcohol or other drugs.
  • Interpersonal Competence - Young person has empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills.
  • Caring - Young person places high value on helping other people.
Assignments for each unit are contained in the Health Links - Assignments and Resources portal.  Students and parents can access the portal using the account login provided to them at the start of the course.  The link below will take you to the portal.
Parent Bulletins (Grades 1-5): Aligned with each two-week unit that Middle School students and parents will be exploring, students and parents in grades 1-5 will be encouraged to explore health related topics and to build family engagement around health issues.  Students in grades 1-5 will receive paper copies of the bulletin, but they can also be accessed (downloaded) from the following page. 

Grade 1-5 teachers, please visit the link below and print paper copies of Parent Bulletin 1 for your students grade level.
*  Teachers can obtain additional materials and lesson resources for this topic from Mr. Arnold.

Unit Presentation - Disease and Illness Prevention
April 15 (Wednesday), 11:15 - Noon

Dr. Charles Zelnick
Island Family Medicine, Deer Isle (Map)
More information

When Aboriginal people first meet, they want to know "what country" the other comes from. Although born in Chicago, Charles Zelnick, MD, came to Island Family Medicine from Western Australia, and joined the practice on January 3 of this year.
 

Dr. Zelnick, and his wife Vicki, met at Rice University. Following graduation, they married in Guilford, Maine where Vicki spent her childhood summers and honeymooned in Bar Harbor. Dr. Zelnick then attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati where he found himself assigned a family expecting a baby, an experience that became his initial contact into the medical system. Subsequent work with a country doctor led him to an interest in rural family medicine. He then joined a practice in Quincy, Washington, followed by 14 years of service at a medical teaching position in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 2004, he took a sabbatical in Winton, New Zealand.
 

The year before Dr. Zelnick arrived at Island Family Medicine, he split his time between Aboriginal Health services and teaching fifth-year medical students at the University of Western Australia. "I am happy to return to the U.S. and again be a full-time rural family physician, "says Dr. Zelnick, "and Vicki and I will enjoy swimming, sailing, and hiking around beautiful Stonington and Deer Isle." Vicki agrees. "We feel privileged to be able to live on the Maine coast."

* Dr. Zelnick's presentation is attached at the bottom of this page.
Resources

Websites

Family Foundations

Examples:
  • As this course begins, check out the online resources and information we have started to organize in the Health Links websites.  Talk together and have an understanding of the requirements and resources that will help you learn more about important health topics.
  • Set aside regular time to talk together and discuss the health topics your child is exploring this semester.  This family connection is vital to how your child thinks about and will make choices that impact their health and happiness.
  • Explore thoughts about Disease and Illness Prevention and talk about how your family can help avoid or prevent different types of illness from effecting you family.

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