Watch the video on Designing Healthy Communities Episode 2 – Social Policy in Concrete (52 minutes, captioned) Use examples from the film with enough detail to support your arguments and include the category name in bold and issues in italics
DO NOT REPEAT the unnecessary plot points, description, narration or quotes from the film or focus on individual stories; the subject of discussion is the community
In one page for each city (Oakland & Detroit)
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Opening paragraph: state Neighborhood and Built Environment is being examined in two cities featured in the Designing Healthy Communities video “Social Policy in Concrete”
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Separately for each city identify and discuss at least one issue impacting the health of the community using facts and examples from the video (about one page each)
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Access to Foods, specifically: food deserts & food swamps
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Environmental Conditions, specifically: open space/parks, air quality, cleanliness/litter, exterior conditions of buildings
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Discuss the efforts aimed at improving the problems for each city (match health issue to community effort to address the problem)
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“The city of _____ addressed the problem of _____ by doing ___”