Facilitator’s Guide for Use with Faculty and Staff

Short Description:
"Capacity to Connect: Supporting Students’ Mental Health and Wellness" includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable training resource covers foundational mental health and wellness knowledge for post-secondary faculty and staff and ways to support students in distress. It can be used for two-hour online or in-person training or for self-study.

Long Description:
Capacity to Connect: Supporting Students’ Mental Health and Wellness includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable training resource covers foundational mental health and wellness knowledge for post-secondary faculty and staff and ways to support students in distress. It can be used for two-hour online or in-person training or for self-study. This resource incorporates a decolonized perspective and was guided by the following principles: accessible, adaptable, culturally located, evidence-informed, inclusive, and trauma-informed. Handouts include a wellness wheel self-assessment tool and information on supporting students in distress.

Word Count: 21886

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

A Guide for Graduate Students

Short Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their competency in professional writing and APA format. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments. NEW 2020 VERSION

Long Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their competency in professional writing. It is designed for self-study, with exercises and activities to support mastery of the concepts and processes presented. Readers are guided through the process of developing their own voice, actively engaging with and thinking critically about the ideas of others, crafting a thesis and argument, reflecting and integrating the voices of others with scholarly integrity, and editing their paper to comply with professional standards of the 6th edition of the American Psychological Association Publication Manual. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments. NEW 2020 VERSION

Word Count: 109577

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

The Solutions based on Biomimicry for Personalized Health unit will allow high school students in the Biology or Health field to develop the skills needed to assess and design solutions to worldwide healthcare issues. The next generation science standards (NGSS) are used as a basis for the development of this unit and will be woven throughout the unit to allow practice and implementation of the standards. The question formulation technique engages the students with both local and world-wide problems in healthcare. Once the problems have been defined, students will begin to design possible solutions. Biomimicry, biotechnology and engineering will be applied to the possible solutions. This will allow for students to develop various routes in personalized medicine to a viable healthcare solution. The feedback and refinement process gives students the chance to test the sustainability of their design against economic, technological and other constraints. Students will create a computer simulation and prototype to develop the healthcare solution. Once the redesign process has been completed the students will research how to pitch their new engineering healthcare solution. The format will be similar to ‘Shark Tank’ and validators will have the opportunity to question the students on their innovation as well as decide whether they are interested in investing. Overall, the unit is a comprehensive personalized health unit that includes all science and engineering practices and the engineering performance expectations.

The number of refugees and IDPs are increasing from fragile situations around the world. Lack of protective community structures and poor reach of health systems to these people result in both groups facing a triple burden of disease: 1) communicable diseases due to e.g. poor housing and sanitary conditions, 2) NCDs, because of poor life style and refugees are today older, and 3) injury due to e.g. violence and poor working conditions.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Plant health is essential for food production, but plants are often affected by pathogens that can threaten plant performance including crop yield. Unfortunately, we can often only predict plant health when pathogens have infected plants and can no longer be controlled – and by then it is too late. To counteract pathogens, farmers often apply extensive amounts of pesticides throughout plant growth. But excessive pesticide use is costly and affects the biodiversity of the surrounding species. A recent study sought to find a way to predict plant health before planting. Researchers investigated different classes of soil microbes throughout the growth of tomato plants. They found that bacterial predators called protists were the best predictors of pathogen dynamics in growing plants..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This lesson plan demonstrates how students can set realistic goals to improve their personal health and keep themselves accountable. Students will demonstrate days of the week on a poster board and putting goals on each day holding themselves accountable. This will teach students how to set goals and feel the enjoyment when achieving them. 

Short Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their comfort, confidence, and skills in professional writing. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments.

Long Description:
Professional Writing in the Health Disciplines is a resource for graduate students to enhance their comfort, confidence, and skills in professional writing. It is designed for self-study, with exercises and activities to support learning of the concepts and processes that support clear, effective, and meaningful communication. Learners are guided systematically through the writing process, including: developing their own voice; grounding their work in principles of integrity and honesty; providing scholarly support for their ideas; developing a writing plan through a process of critical deconstruction; drafing a paper through critical reconstruction; and revising, editing, and completing a final review of their work.

The ebook follows the professional standards of the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual; however, learners are directed to that manual for specific APA editorial guidelines. Instructors are invited to use this resource to support instructional design of graduate courses and grading of assignments.

Word Count: 30683

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Short Description:
A collection of work submitted by graduate students enrolled in the University of Saskatchewan's Health Professions Education course ECUR 836: Teaching Methodologies: Facilitating Learning Through Teaching.

Word Count: 48192

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically as part of a bulk import process by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided. As a result, there may be errors in formatting.)

A Toolkit for B.C. Post-Secondary Institutions

Short Description:
The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of education and training on mental health and wellness.

Long Description:
The purpose of this toolkit is to assist B.C. post-secondary institutions with evaluating and selecting resources to support their ongoing planning and delivery of education and training on mental health and wellness.

Word Count: 3874

ISBN: 978-1-77420-073-5

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Diet and other lifestyle factors have become major drivers of morbidity and mortality in most parts of the world. It is therefore a focus area in nutritional science to search for improvements in local or global food culture that could affect health. The health effects of Nordic foods are currently a highly investigated subject, and therefore we will introduce the methods and finding of different health studies of the New Nordic Diet, hereby the NORDIET, SYSDIET and the SHOPUS Study.

Word Count: 204975

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

This presentation discuss how important physical activity and sleep in children is if you want to prevent obesity and cardiovascular disease. We will present the main cross sectional results from the OPUS School Meal Study. The focus will be on screen time for children, the amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and sleep time. We will also touch upon differences in boys and girls as well as week and seasonal patterns.

Oil and gas activities contribute to significant air pollution, resulting in adverse health effects and economic costs. Emissions from drilling, production, and transportation release pollutants that are linked to asthma, heart attacks, and premature deaths, especially impacting vulnerable populations. Addressing these emissions is crucial for protecting public health, mitigating economic burdens, and implementing comprehensive policies to reduce air pollution from the oil and gas industry.

This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making. Throughout the term, students consider case studies of local and national interest.

In the past 100 years deaths from natural disasters have decreased by more than half, despite a more than 4-fold population growth during the same time. What is it that we have learnt?
Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview

The National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UC San Francisco present lectures to provide practical, easy ways to be proactive with your health. In this episode, Susan Folkman, Director of The UCSF Osher Center, talks about learning ways to manage and cope with stress. (44 minutes)

This lesson is about teaching about how to write paragraphs in cursive, and also topic in cursive. for example (favorite movie, class, book, or health goal.)

This is a collection of all materials used in Health Information Technology by Dr. Chi Zhang at Kennesaw State University, including lecture slides, assignments, and assessments, including a question bank.

Topics covered include:

Clinical Financial Records
Evidence-Based Medicine
e-Prescribing
Patient Bedside Systems
Telemedicine
Health Information Networks
Cryptography
Accreditation
HIPAA Privacy and Security

Each semester I teach a course titled “Personal Health and Wellness.” Twenty to thirty students consistently register for the course and they are required to study content within several health and wellness topics such as psychological health, physical fitness, nutrition, drug abuse, tobacco use, heart disease, infectious disease, and sexual health. The course objectives are consistent with the Montana Health Education Standards, including objective 6: to demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance their health.

In an effort to address objective 6 of the Montana Health Education standards and teach in a culturally responsive way, I recently integrated a series of goal –setting activities into my Personal Health and Wellness course. The goal of this novel integration was to teach students how to effectively use goal-setting to improve an aspect of their life. Consistent with goal theory, I expected that if they experienced success with a thoughtful and appropriate goal, students would have improved levels of hope and self-efficacy.

Additional practice problems and activities to support the mathematical content in Health & Fitness.