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Meditative Tower
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This piece is a general representation of my personal understanding of health and the ways in which it has guided my thoughts when I tested positive for COVID-19. The structure represents three layers of understanding, supporting a young girl covered by a dark cloud. The young girl and the dark cloud are a metaphor for how the virus temporarily carried a dark, sad presence over my life, adversely impacting my social, mental, physical and spiritual health. The three foundational layers, however, represent the key models of health that were significant in my understanding of how to approach the virus. The bolts of light ‘emitted’ are meant to represent the way my understanding of these perspectives had helped reduce the darkness and confusion during that tough time. Layer one focuses on medical anthropology and the way my cultural and spiritual understandings played a role in my recovery, specifically focusing on the involvement of certain effective Sudanese and Islamic remedies. Layer two targets my personal beliefs when maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The third and final layer represents how I prioritized the opinions of physicians and professional healthcare workers who rely on the use of medicine to regulate the effects of the virus. Overall, realizing the value of cultural, lifestyle, and medical understandings of health was a substantial element in approaching the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Toronto: Before and After
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The first picture shows the Toronto Raptors championship parade that happened in 2019. The second picture shows the city of Toronto during the pandemic where people were told to self isolate. These pictures are very significant for me because I'm a huge Toronto Raptors fan and I attended the games in the playoffs. It was one of the best times of my life as I got to experience it with my best friends. Fast forward to 2020, the NBA cancelled their basketball season due to the pandemic. The second picture depicts my feelings during the pandemic: empty. I always thought that health referred to medicine and illnesses. However, I learned about health geography, medical anthropology, health psychology, and health economics. They are all different but they all intertwine with each other. People didn't follow procedures when dealing with COVID-19, which caused many people to get sick and resulted in a lot of deaths. If only people wore masks, had proper hygiene, socially distanced, and followed other COVID-related restrictions, then less people would be infected and the closer we would be towards reopening, and the closer we would be to watching Raptors games.
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Scarborough Data Collection
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A collection of census-derived data that are Scarborough-specific, created by Workstudy student Rubina Shaik in Winter 2019. If you are interested in contributing to our collection of data to support Scarborough-based research, contact dsu.utsc@utoronto.ca
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Reflective Sketch
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My drawing includes different elements that each play a certain role in influencing the concept of health. The overall idea that I wanted to come across was that health studies encompass a wide range of ideas that all intertwine with each other, and ultimately all have significance to a society’s well-being. Some of the symbols that I have drawn are meant to symbolize healthcare justice, societal influences, and culture. These are also the notions that I have observed throughout this pandemic. The current situations have been an example of how culture, justice and societal influences affect the well-being of populations worldwide. This may be dependent on whether a country chooses to get through the pandemic with prayers, elections being driven by health plans for COVID, or providing all patients with equal care.
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Photographic Collage
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This collage represents several aspects of my new life during the COVID-19 pandemic. My lifestyle has been the same for the past couple of years. As a type 1 diabetic, routine is super important to be able to keep up with a healthy life. The images I have collected simply represent my new life during this pandemic as I continued to care for my diabetes. I began to change my choices, including diet change, which affected my mental and physical health. As I started to feed my body what it truly needed, I never realized how my own decisions affected all aspects of my life. My choices to learn more about my faith with God and Buddha allowed for me to be spiritually free and put my trust in God--I prayed for my family and the people around me to remain safe during the pandemic. I’ve also included photos of facial masks and hand sanitizer. This was important to me because it also shaped my personal understanding of the pandemic. My life before the pandemic never consisted of these two items, but now these are essentials in my life.
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