Learning Goals
Students will be able to define healthcare scarcity in Tucson and Arizona as a distribution problem shaped by limited clinics, staffing, funding, insurance gaps, and transportation barriers.
Students will be able to investigate local healthcare resources by locating, selecting, and documenting Tucson clinics, public health sites, and support services that serve uninsured or low-income residents.
Students will be able to collect and organize field data from brochures, websites, interviews, and site visits about service type, eligibility, hours, contact information, and cost.
Students will be able to analyze patterns of scarcity across Tucson healthcare services by comparing wait times, eligibility limits, transportation access, and service gaps.
Students will be able to justify claims about which healthcare resources are most limited in Tucson using corroborated evidence and explain why their methods support those conclusions.
Students will be able to evaluate limitations and biases in healthcare access sources, interviews, and local service listings before drawing conclusions.
Students will be able to design a user-friendly Tucson health resource card or website section that communicates verified access information clearly for community use.
Products
Individual Tucson Healthcare Scarcity Investigation Notebook
Students maintain a research notebook documenting their question, source selection, interview or site-visit notes, data tables, and personal analysis of healthcare scarcity in Tucson. The notebook shows how the student used evidence to build and defend a preliminary conclusion about the most limited resources.
Tucson Health Access Resource Card and Investigation Report
Teams produce a polished laminated resource card and a short formal investigation report or presentation that synthesizes members' evidence, explains research methods, and identifies the most urgent healthcare access gaps in Tucson. The product must include contradictory findings, limitations, and justified recommendations for community use.
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