Reflection: Environmental Health and the Local Community

The environmental health and local community discussion enabled me to consider a

dimension of health that I was not familiar with. When I think of health, I often attribute my

thoughts to physical, emotional, and intellectual health which is inaccurate in describing health

as a whole. One of the dimensions of health that I neglected was environmental health. Although

I always take measures to preserve the global environment, I never thought that it would have an

effect on my health. Completing this assignment was interesting because I had to think of ways

to improve my local environment, something I had always overlooked. I came up with simple

changes I could make to improve my local environment and ultimately, my health. The

discussion was very educational because I was able to offer ideas to my classmates while reading

about the creative ideas they came up with to improve their local environments. This discussion

placed the complexities of health into perspective and made me realize that health encompasses a

lot more than eating right and exercising.