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Health Science 100

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Reviewed:: Jul 8, 2022 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

Health Care 100 is an online textbook that comprehensively reviews physical and mental health concepts. The material can be easily accessed online using Chrome or Firebox browsers. The learning material is ideal for college or graduate level students as a supplemental text to a classroom lecture or online discussion forum. It could be used by healthcare professionals as an on-the-job training textbook to advance knowledge in physical and mental health.

Chapters include Psychological Health, Stress Management, Relationships and Communication, Gender and Sexuality, Sexual Healthy, Infectious diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Understanding Drug Use and Addiction, Basic Nutrition and Healthy eating, Weight Management, Physical FItness, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer, Environmental Healthy, and Health Care Choices. There are 14 chapters, each 10-20 pages. References are included.

Type of Material:

Open (Access) Textbook

Recommended Uses:

This book would be best used with supplemental health information in an undergraduate class. Other, sources such as videos, animation, or other interactive methods would make this learning more enjoyable.
Use as a supplement to lecture or classroom such as a textbook to prepare to group discussion or online discussion

Technical Requirements:

Firefox browser works best to open both .pdf and Google document.
Chrome browser works to open in .pdf format, but formatting is off when trying to open as a Google document

Identify Major Learning Goals:

After completion, learners will

1. Describe the mental and physical aspects that make up health.

2. Explain the complexities that contribute to and impact psychological health.

3. Identify various components to physical health and ways to avoid a decline in health.

Target Student Population:

College
Graduate-level
On-the-job training text for nurses, physician assistant, or other healthcare-related field

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

General health knowledge would be helpful as prerequisite.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The content is valid/accurate/reliable/comprehensive.
The content reflects reality at a basic level.

Concerns:

Since the resource doesn’t have objectives, discussion questions, etc. it limits the flexibility of the material.
While the information is extremely comprehensive, knowledge of general health would be helpful to fully understand the material.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The material is comprehensive and allows the reader to learn a lot in a short amount of time.
The content builds upon psychological concepts, e.g., psychological health was further broken down into stress management, sexual health, etc. and physical health was further broken down into nutrition, environmental, and health choices.

Concerns:

The material would benefit from having objectives and/or discussion questions following each chapter or some other way to gauge learning.
While concepts build upon each other, it would further strengthen this resource if the relationships between the concepts were explained a little more in-depth.
It is only written material with minimal pictures or images.
It is not interactive.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Terms are well-defined.
Examples were clear.
It was easy to access online.
The material was nicely organized.

Concerns:

The pdf version made navigation of the material difficult. Consider links in the table of content so learners could advance to a section more easily vs. scrolling through the entire document to get to the desired chapter.
Consider adding links to supplemental learning, e.g., video clips, audio clips, etc. so visual and auditory learners would benefit vs. having the entire material read-only.

Other Issues and Comments:

Learners will appreciate the holistic view of health that this resource covers, but more detail would improve the source.
This is the 3rd edition (2018).
There is not an index at the end.

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