Tasks
1. Click here to first understand photovoice:
2. Assess a health issue or topic within your community, school, worksite, home, or a combination of multiple environments using photos to tell the story
- Issues/Topics to investigate:
- Availability/Access to tobacco products, e-cigarettes, marijuana
- Opportunities to be physically active
- Parks/green space
- Access to reproductive health services, other medical services
- Health messaging
- Availability/access to alcohol
- A day in the life of a child, senior, a person with a disability or chronic condition
- Active transportation (opportunities to walk, bike, use public transit)
- Community appearance
- Health-promoting or inhibiting work environments
- Community Resources
- Homelessness
- Availability/access of fast food,
- Availability/access to healthy foods
3. Photos/Pictures must be your own original work. Photos/Pictures taken from the internet will not receive credit.
Submission Format
PowerPoint
- Slide 1: Title Slide
- Slide 2: Description slide– Include the topic you will cover, the city where your assessment took place, 2-3 sentences that describe why you chose to investigate this issue within your community, workplace, school, home, or combination of environments
- Slide 3: Justify slide– Justify your selection of this topic by citing at least 3 references (1 website and 2 journal articles). Include the following information in your justification:
- Relevant statistics- how widespread is this issue, trends over time, others you feel make the case for investigating this issue
- Disparities related to this issue
- Impacts of this issue
- Slides 4-8: At least 5 photos plus a short description of each photo in the body of each slide
- Slide 9: 3-4 sentence conclusion on your findings
- Slide 10: references
You must follow the APA Style rules for writing and formatting your in-text citations and reference list.
