What is public health? Students in the UGA Health & Wellness class are here to help you find out! They have strategically identified examples in the Athens community that they feel represent public health in action. This blog is dedicated to explaining, understanding, and discussing what their interpretations of public health, as well as their reactions to learning about topics of health and wellness.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
TIPH Photo #2
This is a photo I took at Ramsey Student Center of the gym wipes that they promote students to use after they are finished working out on a machine. The gym wipes in Ramsey are an example of public health because they encourage students to wipe off the sweat and germs from working out, to the eliminate the risk of spreading germs and staph infection from sweat. I chose this example because many people like to work out, especially when the environment that they are exercising in is clean. So, the gym wipes are an effective way for members to be clean, as well as be aware of a way to prevent germs and certain infections from spreading to others. It is important for others to consider this example of pubic health because it is an easy way to keep gyms clean for its members, and to avoid the spreading of germs from member to member.
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This is a great example of public health because they are encouraging people to use sanitized wipes on the equipment they have used so that they will not pass any germs to the next person that may use the same equipment.
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