{"id":1339,"date":"2016-11-02T17:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:06:44","slug":"global-health-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/2016\/11\/02\/global-health-immersion\/","title":{"rendered":"Covert \u201918 &#8211; Global Health Immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1340\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/Covert_photo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1340\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1340 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/Covert_photo-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Covert_photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/Covert_photo-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/Covert_photo.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Covert \u201918<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jacob Covert \u201918 &#8211; One of my greatest experiences in Peru was the amazing opportunity to shadow and be the right-hand man of a Peruvian doctor at a medical outpost in Hu\u00e1nuco.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor gave me insight into many of the problems that his people face on a daily basis from gastritis, to lower lumbar issue, to malnutrition. All of these issues are prevalent problems not only within Peru, but also within the larger global health context.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the doctor had me working with a Peruvian medical student who helped me to understand that many of the medical problems of Peruvians stem from a lack of education about nutrition, wellness, and general health. The educational deficits are also a larger global problem that the global health approach tries to tackle by educating local leaders who, in turn, teach the larger community.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to peer through the eyes of another individual, let alone a whole other culture, truly has changed the way I understand the world and the role of global health in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Covert \u201918 &#8211; One of my greatest experiences in Peru was the amazing opportunity to shadow and be the right-hand man of a Peruvian doctor at a medical outpost in Hu\u00e1nuco. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-global-health"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/Covert_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}