do each part in separate documents

.part one

Discussion 6: Community Capacity and Environmental Health

Your Tasks

TASK 1- VIDEO

Watch the following video, which describes “sacrifice zones” and the importance of community involvement in environmental advocacy efforts.

TASK 2- ORIGINAL POST

Answer the following questions:

Describe the role that community capacity has in environmental health advocacy and community restructuring. (6 points)

• I would recommend reviewing the Community Capacity article found under the additional reading section for this unit.

1. What is one environmental health priority that you think the city of San Diego and/or the state of California should focus on? Why? Several examples of environmental efforts are cited within the video. (5 points)
2. What are ideas or recommendations that you have to raise awareness and mobilize target communities toward environmental health change? Tie this in with the issue that you cited in question 2. (5 points)
3. The post must be at least 250 words. (2 points)
4. Include at least 1 outside reference, cited in APA format. This reference needs to be cited both in-text and at the end of the post in a reference list. (2 points).

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part two

Post-Disaster Mental Health

Your Tasks

TASK 1

Read “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Post-Disaster Mental Health: Examining the Evidence through a Lens of Social Justice ” by Jonathan Purtle. There is a downloadable PDF of the article on the following page.

TASK 2

Answer the following questions:

1. What are structural inequities? (2 points)
2. How are structural inequities related to social inequities? (3 points)
3. What are protective factors against adverse mental health outcomes, as listed in the article? (1 point)
4. The article mentions that one factor impeding risk communication is distrust over those who are communicating the risk message (e.g., health professionals, law enforcement, etc.). What is one strategy that you can think of that can help minimize this mistrust? (2 points)
5. What is resilience? How does it relate stress/mental health? (2 points)
6. Describe the relationship between race/ethnicity, SES, and mental health outcomes as a result of disasters. How does this relate to social justice? (5 points)
7. What was your overall impression of the article? (5 points)