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Homework: Mental Health Matters Nurturing Minds for a Healthier World Essay
Public Health Communications
For this homework, you will create a newsletter for public health professionals with an interest in a specific public health issue. The newsletter must address that issue and include information about how to reach diverse stakeholders. These stakeholders may include educators, government officials, clinicians, patients, and others. Stakeholders may be diverse in background and literacy. This homework can be approached from a clinical, administrative, academic, or research focus, but it should aim to inform, influence, and motivate behavior and policy.
Instructions
Visit the Healthy People website and select one of the leading health indicators (LHI) from the site. Develop a newsletter related to this leading health indicator. In the newsletter, do the following:
Question I. Discuss the history of the topic, including trends and primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
Question II. Analyze the role of health professionals in promoting health, including how health professionals' roles could be increased.
Question III. Evaluate how globalization affects global burdens of disease as it relates to this indicator.
Question IV. Analyze the effects of environmental factors on a population's health as it relates to this indicator.
Question V. Evaluate communication strategies for communicating about this public health issue.
Question VI. Explain how you would determine the most effective communication channel for various audience segments.