Part 1: Describe how looking through the history lens enhances your understanding of wellness.
Part 2: Consider a current event in the news that has a historical counterpart. How does looking through the history lens influence how you perceive both the current and historical events? Please share a news link to your events. [source required]
Part 3: How does analyzing the relationship between history, culture, and wellness have an influence on your discipline of study or chosen profession?
Part 4: Read Scenario 1 and compare and contrast your answer to further everyone’s understanding of wellness and the lens of history.
Part 5: Read Scenario 2 and compare and contrast your answer to further everyone’s understanding of wellness and the lens of history
Scenario 1 – Looking through the history lens enhances our understanding of diversity by looking at history for answers and choosing not to repeat itself. Throughout history, we learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating those mistakes. Learning from the past provides insight into our cultures and cultures that we don’t bring awareness and understanding to those differences. History also allows people to use critical thinking skills. Using critical thinking is essential in diversity and life.
Scenario 2 – History is a series of past events. Looking at wellness through the history lens will allow us to study past effects on our health. We can use that information to determine causation and its relationship to earlier events. Pandemics have affected societies since the beginning of time. The Black Plague, Smallpox, Spanish Flu, and Ebola are the most memorable ones. Viewing through the history lens will help us during the current public health crisis. We can improve past practices to solve existing issues. We have learned during health emergencies, people’s rights will need to be scaled back to promote good public health practices. Legislation limiting movement, mandatory face coverings, and curfews have been used throughout history and have become standard responses to health crises and the current pandemic.