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Impartial Health Advocate

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To be impartial means to be fair and unbiased. As a health advocate it is important to be impartial because the job puts individuals in a position to speak up for a large community. Therefore, it is important to make sure a health advocates personal views do not largely affect the message being delivered because it is their job to present information based on effective research, so the message delivered is meaningful and reliable. Being impartial as a health advocate involves understanding and working well with the opposing team that is not in agreement with the message that is being delivered. Additionally, it is important to treat the opposing team fairly so there can be an understanding of what needs to be accomplished as a health advocate …show more content…

The health topic that was most interesting to me is the issues related to tobacco. As an advocate the first fact I would state about tobacco is how it has caused and is causing millions of people to die as a result of the illnesses they developed through smoking. Next, I would state that smoking also the people who are around the smokers through secondhand smoke, and how it causes the people who involuntarily inhale the smoke, which contains more than 7,000 chemicals, to develop illnesses such as lung cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma to say the least. An organization I would consult for advocacy help to eliminate the use of tobacco is the World Health Organization (WHO). This organization works with The Bloomberg Initiative, which works towards reducing the use of tobacco by promoting freedom from smoking in low and middle-income countries by implementing tobacco control policies proven to make a difference. Polices include banning tobacco advertising, increasing taxes on tobacco and raising public awareness about the dangers associated to tobacco use. Furthermore, I believe by consulting with WHO, specifically with the initiative they have partnered with, I will be able to learn a lot about the steps I should and should not take when it comes to advocating to eliminate tobacco use. Overall, I know I could learn how to effectively communicate my argument to eliminate the use of tobacco by consulting with the World Health …show more content…

I say this because there are many situations in which one can say something is definitely wrong or right, however, another person's perspective can see something being wrong as it being right and vice versa. I believe it is important that one distinguishes the difference between morality and opinion, however, it is also important to understand that one's moral can be heavily influence the opinions they have formed through their personal experience. I believe my small group was being honest with their answers. Whenever there was a disagreement, we as a group would discuss why we believe what we believe to try to get a better understanding of the decision to answer something a certain way. During our discussion I noticed a lot of the group members answered differently because the way we were all raised was differently and we come from a different religion. Therefore, since our different experiences shaped the way we think we tended to have different answers for each

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