Find a definition for the following public health terms. You can use your textbook. You must also find an alternative description of the term from a valid and reliable source of information. Use your newfound information literacy skills. The best resources are journal articles. You may not use a dictionary or encyclopedia. You must use a variety of sources for your descriptions.
Examples of terms:
- Primary prevention
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
- Potential Years of Life Lost
- Vital statistics
- Random variation
1. Discuss "valid and authoritative" with the student. At some point these students were told that sites in the .gov domain are authoritative. My quick fix is a Google search such as this - define primary prevention site:.gov
It leads to descriptions/definitions from gov websites, often public health pages.
I have no clue how that tactic will go over during grading.
2. Students determined to follow instructions and search for journal articles with definitions/descriptions? Refer them to me.
I've helped a student to find MeSH headings as one of the sources of alternate descriptions, and as a way to get to articles on those topics, then clicking on "Review" in hopes that review articles will be more obvious sources of defns, and of course pulling the info from an abstract where feasible.
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