Discussion: Health Education in Action One of the overarching roles of a health educator is to...

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Discussion: Health Education in Action

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.

Define and support your target audience, and be sure to specify if there will be more than one targeted audience
Define the specific message you will relay to your audience(s)
Explain how, specifically, you will convey this message to your audience(s), including actions to be undertaken and personnel involved
Discuss at least two ways that you could use social media as a means for reaching your audience(s)
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 individuals, public health professionals, health education professionals, or others?
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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DISCUSSION: HEALTH EDUCATION IN ACTION
THE SCENARIO— PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT: SALMONELLA AND LISTERIA OUTBREAK
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The different methods and metrics can be used for defining risks in food contamination cases, which have to able fulfill the requirement of target audience. As examined by Devleesschauwer et al. (2017), understanding the perceptions and need of specific target audiences is necessary in order to build an effective communication campaign aimed at changing behavior. The message constructed for a specific audience must be tailored to the needs, concerns and interests of the audience. The advanced communication results can be achieved by investing efforts and time.
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The specific key message can be constructed by selecting strategies, understanding, and defining issues on foodborne for audience. It should be in manner of requesting and not in ordering manner. As examined by Noviyanti (2017), to construct an effective message, the social business owners should have to aware about the particular event and understand the motivation behind the event. Repetition of message is required to stimulate the motivation in target audience. The study performed by Bai et al. (2018) found that the gain-framed message received lower acceptance as compared to loosely framed message on food safety. The data provided support for the contribution of personal involvement weighted to message formation. It is also concluded that the more self-involvement message has more acceptance.
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To convey information related to food safety, messages can be delivered through the social media. The most of the population is busy with social media connection. Thus, the use of social media can be done to pass messages. Although, the popular celebrities or famous social personalities can help to deliver the message. As mentioned by Overbey, Jaykus and Chapman (2017), the Facebook, microblogs,

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