The public health topic that I chose was nutrition/malnutrition. This topic is meaningful to me in many ways. First, we live in America, where if there is a concern with a child being malnourished, it is mostly due to abuse and/or neglect.
However, in other parts of the world, Africa for example, malnutrition is a way of live due to the lack of resources available to them. In many cases the child is not the only only one who is malnourished, the entire family is. Is can be so death the death is the result.
Ways that this has impacted my work in the future is that my husband and I sponsor 2 children in Africa so that they and their families can get clean water, food, and an education. We all write to each other back and forth, and we also send then Christmas gifts. It is such a joy.
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