health behaviors 1

One of the overarching roles of a health educator is to promote activities, behaviors, and lifestyles that support well-being and reduce the chance of disease and injury. This may include services provided to an individual or to an entire community. One of the responsibilities of a public health professional may be to determine and/or efficiently mobilize an action plan to resolve a community health issue. In this Discussion, you are provided a community health scenario, and you will decide how to proceed to resolve the issue.

To Prepare:

Review the scenario provided by your Instructor. In this scenario, you have been called to educate a specific population about a certain health issue. You will discuss ways to educate the population and resolve the issue by considering the questions, below, and applying them to the scenario that was posted by your Instructor.

By Day 3

Post your initial response to each of the questions below, supporting your ideas with scholarly resources and citing all sources where they were used in your text.

  1. Define and support your target audience, and be sure to specify if there will be more than one targeted audience
  2. Define the specific message you will relay to your audience(s)
  3. Explain how, specifically, you will convey this message to your audience(s), including actions to be undertaken and personnel involved
  4. Discuss at least two ways that you could use social media as a means for reaching your audience(s)
  5. Describe at least one specific action that can impact the incidence rates (number of new cases) and at least one specific action that can impact the prevalence rates (number of existing cases) of your health concern. Be very clear as to whether these actions are to be taken by individ
  6. Describe how teams with multiple types of personnel can work together to take action on this health issue, supporting your ideas with at least two best practices in teamwork.

Review peer postings and think about the various audiences, messages, ways to educate the target audience for the provided scenario. Be sure to review what has already been posted and make sure that your own initial posting is sufficiently original and well supported.

 
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