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Issue 28 - Health: The Big Picture

This issue includes many extras!

The Change Agent's new issue on health contains 56 pages of short articles, illustrations, cartoons, math lessons, and quizzes. Explore students' experiences dealing with health challenges and their individual and community-based responses to those challenges. Learn about the U.S. health insurance industry, student-recommended home remedies, students' experiences of health disparities, the connection between mental and physical health, and much more. Download the entire issue - 21mb

Cover and "Meet the Editors"

Building Awareness: Self, Workplace, Community, and The Environment - PDF

- Posing Problems, Creating Solutions

- Stress: The Silent Illness

- Rx for Stress: More Support!

- Unequal Access to Health & Wellness

- The Environment Affects our Health

- I Got Sick from my Job

- Childbirth in Taiwan and in the U.S.

- Living with Mental Illness

- Do the Mentally Ill Receive Proper Care in Prison?

- Sexual Health

- Top Ten Ingredients for Healthy Sexuality

- From our Class to Yours: Students Share Tips and Tricks for Health

- The Problem with Insurance is: Will It Cover Everything We Need?

 

Gaining Access: What about Health Insurance? - PDF

- The Problem with Health Care is: Most of Us Can't Afford it!

- Four Basic Models of Health Care

- The National Health Care System

- What Is Single Payer Health Care?

- What do Voters Think about Single-payer Health Insurance?

- Taekwondo Builds Mental and Physical Strength

Taking Action - On Your Own and in Your Community - PDF

- Children Need Healthy Lunches

- Who Will take Care of the Soldiers?

- Finding a Program that Can Help

- Constructive Anger can be Positive: Lessons from the AIDS Movement

- Can't Afford to Take a Sick Day? Join the Club

- This is What I Do to Stay Healthy

- Why I Decided to Use Acupuncture

- Stay Health by Working Hard

- Walk, Don't Drive

- Child Obesity: How the Community Can Help

- My Tax Dollars Paid for That?

- I Know I Will Get Through My Struggles

 

Hope and Inspiration - How Friendship, Community, and Our Own Minds Hold Us Up! - PDF

- The Power of Positive Thinking

- Smoking Killed My Grandfather, But I Managed to Quit

- Moving from Depression to Joy and Confidence

- We Survived the Storm. Can We Survive the Mold?

- A Good Friend is Good for Your Health

- Mammogram

 

Resources and Back Cover

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