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Service Learning Reflection Essay

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Through the readings of the last week, I have learned a great deal about ‘Service Learning’. It is a combination of teaching and learning approach for teaching public health issues and improving health literacy. It is an integration of academic learning and community services to strengthen civic engagement. It is helpful in promoting cooperation, teamwork, civic responsibility, solving complex problems etc. (Service learning, 2016). It mainly consists of various stages as: Investigation, planning and preparation, action and reflection. I have been associated with various service learning activity like breast cancer awareness in various communities. For the first time in my public health career, I have came across these terms related to social conditions of people like social determinants of health and health disparities and had a real time experience by working with communities. The community, which I have worked with, gave me a better understanding …show more content…

One of the skills/strategy I learned in my college course is ‘’Cultural Competence’’ and this skill helped in gaining the knowledge about culture in that particular organization in which I was working with. Cultural competency has real impacts on clinical outcomes. I have developed cultural competency during this course in order to provide proper care and education to people with diabetes. As I applied this skill/strategy with the diabetic people, I learned that their understanding was more recognized. Their nutrition is defined by the culture and environment they live in and I also found that they are habitual to things like that. Food and language are the cultural habits, which change with greatest reluctance in order to maintain healthy life (Goody, 2009). Through my assessment, I got to know many environmental and cultural factors, which affects the rural population in a

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