Health PE-10: Home

Community Health:

• Chronic disease
• Cancer and the lymphatic system
  • Cancer Topic Center (Teens Health - available in Spanish)
• Injury and violence prevention
• Prevention of intentional & unintentional injury
• Access to healthcare
• Infectious disease – spread & prevention
  • Infections (Teens Health - available in Spanish)
• Global health – emerging diseases

Emergency Preparedness (Ready.gov available in Spanish)

• Natural disasters
• Severe injury
• Evacuation plan
• Terrorism
• Protective equipment
• First responders

Environmental:

• Pollution
  • Air Pollution and Your Health (in Spanish)
• Safe drinking water (National Institute of Health)
• Contaminated soil
  • Lead in soil (Centers for Disease Control)
• Hazardous waste (National Institute of Health
• Climate change (Centers for Disease Control)
• Environment’s impact on individual
  • About heat and your health (Centers for Disease Control)
  • Air quality (Centers for Disease Control)

Health-related Social Issues:

• Homelessness
  • Homelessness in Fairfax (Fairfax County Government)
• Organ donation
  • How Donation Works (Health Resources and Services Administration - available in Spanish)
• Food safety (clean, separate, cook, & chill)
  • Your Gateway to Food Safety Information (Foodsafety.gov - available in Spanish)
• Healthcare options
• Senior care
• Infectious disease – spread & prevention
• Infectious disease (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases - available in Spanish)

Mental Health & Wellness:

• Stress & Anxiety (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Depression
  • Depression: What You Need to Know (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
  • Am I Depressed? (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Anger management
  • Anger management: 10 tips to tame your temper (Mayo Clinic)
• Social support & peer approval
• Abuse & domestic violence
  • Abusive relationships (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Eating disorders (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Mental Health Stigmas

Technologies:

• Technology to monitor/improve health
• Online safety (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Limiting use of technology
• Technology in health sciences
• Medical research
• Genetic testing 
• Security of electronic medical records

ATOD & Substance Abuse

• Marijuana (legalization / medical) 
  • Marijuana (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Trends in ATOD use among teens
• Drinking/drugged driving
  • Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (VDOT)
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
  • CDC Impaired Driving (Centers for Disease Control)
• Recreational drug use
  • Vaping: What you need to know (TeensHealth - available in Spanish)
• Opioids
  • Opioids (Fairfax County Community Services Board)  
  • What is the Federal Government Doing to Combat the Opioid Abuse Epidemic?  (National Institute on Drug Abuse - available in Spanish)

Lewis Library has many books on the topics assigned for this project. 

Keeping track of where your information used for research is important. 

1. Log into Noodletools using your Google account.
2. Set up your account (if you have not already done so this year).
3. Have 1 responsible person in your group create a Noodletools Project.
4. The responsible person: share your project with your teacher's inbox and with all members of the group.
   1. ​​​​​​​Inbox names:
      1. Afrane Pd 5
      2. Afrane Pd 8
5. Group members: check your projects and make sure you can see the shared project! 

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