Reflection topic:

Select one topic only and use the sociological imagination template as a guide.

1. Reflect on the adverse environmental impacts of the rapid development of electronic communication and technology as one of the globalising processes affecting population health in Australia. Within your reflection discuss why health professional teams can ensure environmental sustainability to improve health equity.

2. Reflect on how you would compare and contrast your own definitions of health and illness with the definitions of health and illness you would provide for a group of low socio-economic status people living with a chronic illness and/or disability.

Use this proforma to organise your response to the reflective assessment task. Use the steps as headings and write in paragraphs below the headings; this is not an essay task. All your sources should be referenced using APA style. Ensure that you use all the factors from the SI template in completing this reflective writing task. You do not need to use all four factors in every Step of this proforma.

Step 1
Carefully choose one topic from the Reflective Learning and Writing Assessment section of the unit outline to guide your reflection. Write the topic here:

Step 2
Using the Gibbs Reflective Model (1998) and the ACU academic skills reflective writing resource, reflect upon and analyse your knowledge, experiences and observations in relation to your chosen question from Step 1. (250 words)

Step 3
Next, identify and cite one of the readings, articles or videos from the eModules and discuss how this resource helps you to expand and deepen your original reflections on this topic. (250 words)

Step 4
Using the sociological imagination template, answer the original question you identified in Step 1, using Germov (2014) and a minimum of four other academic sources (e.g. journal articles, research reports) to support your answer. Locate these academic sources through your own information search. (1000 words)

Step 5
Finally, choose one of the Graduate Attributes (at the front of the Unit Outline) that is most relevant and explain how answering this eModule question has helped you to develop this Graduate Attribute. Reflect and analyse on your thoughts and feelings on the original question in the light of your research. (250 words)

1700 words of self-reflection essay