Students to teach peers on health
Campus group to educate on importance of H1N1 vaccine and other topics
Ernesto Lopez
Issue date: 11/10/09 Section: News
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"It's a cross disciplinary group of people interested in educating others," Anthony Hartsock, PHE leader, said. "It's our idea of social responsibility and of wanting to help people around (us)."
Hartsock added that this group was in part created to assist campus health services in their attempts to reach the entire student population with health minded messages.
"They are incredible," said Dotti Cordell, director of City's health services, of the peer health educators. "The idea is students informing students, people of the same age, people that students can relate to."
On Oct. 29 Hartscock walked around campus placing posters and handing out post cards with a memo to "grind the swine" and "curb the cough." The group's first task is to bring awareness to the H1N1 and to the vaccine.
Cordell reported that once the vaccines arrive on campus the peer health educators will be going into classrooms with the message that the vaccine has arrived on campus and to encourage students to educate themselves before making a decision to get it or not.
According to Cordell, there is no scheduled time for the vaccines to arrive on campus and health services will get short notice on when they will arrive.
During a PHE meeting on Oct. 30, in which the group rehearsed their 5-minute delivery to students on the H1N1, psychology student Hannia Hudec said she had "joined the group because it's important to stay well and if I can get 1 person to get vaccinated then I did my job."
Nursing student Cecilia Coleman added that in future projects they will "be reminding students that health services is here to help them and that their health fees covers medical services and to use those services."
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