Assignment: Public Health Message NURS 1234
Assignment: Public Health Message NURS 1234
Scenario Two:
From the suggested reading materials, select an important public health message that would be an important component of community-based program. Create a 60-90 second public service announcement for television. The script must be submitted with references using APA style. Upload your video to YouTube. Paste the link on a Word document and submit to the dropbox. Be sure to include a cover page. Module 8 will be requiring an in depth community-based program so choosing a similar or the same topic area for both Modules is encouraged.
What is Important Public Health Message?
For the first time, health communication was allocated a chapter in the United States of America (USA)’s Healthy People 2010 objectives, illustrating its growing importance, according to Parrott.1 In these objectives, set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, health communication is seen to have relevance for virtually every aspect of health and well-being, including disease prevention, health promotion and quality of life. This increase in the prominence of the field, externally, is happening contemporaneously with important developments taking place, internally, one of which is the focus on the study of environmental, social and psychological influences on behaviour and health. Given the global challenges posed by major threats, health communication scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of prevention and, with it, the need to understand human behaviour through the prism of theory. This has given rise to theorizing about the role of risk perceptions,2,3 social norms,4,5 emotions6,7 and uncertainty8 in health behaviours. internally, one of which is the focus on the study of environmental, social and psychological influences on behaviour and health. Given the global challenges posed by major threats, health communication scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of prevention
