Task description
This assessment task requires you to create and present an informational poster that addresses a selected health promotion issue within the Australian health system context. From the perspective of a specific national health priority problem, you will examine relevant social and behavioural determinants, key strategies for promoting health and wellness, and communication methods appropriate to the target audience. Your poster will be presented as a Powerpoint slide which includes an embedded commentary on the content of your poster.
Length
Your poster should be 1 slide only (no more than 750 words), and your video recording should be no more than 5 minutes in length.
Learning outcomes measured
- Explain and discuss key concepts and issues in relation to health and illness across the lifespan including the influence of social determinants of health
- Apply knowledge of professional, ethical, social and cultural dimensions of communication to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships and partnerships in health care
- Analyse principles of health promotion and evaluate health promotion strategies in relation to a selected health problem and key social determinants of health across the lifespan
What you need to do
Step 1
Choose
one
of the following health issues
together with
its intended target audience as the focus of your poster:
- Safe use of mobile phones (target audience: Children aged 10-15 years)
- Prostate cancer awareness & detection (target audience: Males aged 30-50 years)
- Preventing falls at home (target audience: Older people living in the community aged 80-95 years)
Step 2
Examine your selected health problem within the Australian health system context, i.e., researching relevant literature and/or other sources to information regarding the elements described above. You would then analyse the information you have sourced in order to develop succinct text-based material suitable for displaying in poster form.
Develop your Powerpoint poster with the following resources.
Resources
1. The following resources will assist you in designing and developing your digital poster:
Template - Landscape
NSD105-poster_template_landscape XXXXXXXXXXpptx
Download NSD105-poster_template_landscape XXXXXXXXXXpptx
Template - Portrait
NSD105-poster_template_portrait XXXXXXXXXXpptx
Download NSD105-poster_template_portrait XXXXXXXXXXpptx
2. Questions that have been frequently asked by other students;
Q:
I know that we are using numbered referencing
(Vancouver)
for our poster assignment, but in the
reference list, do we use APA style?
A: QUT numbered format
(Vancouver)
http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/qutcite.jsp#numbered
Q:
How many references should we use?
A: You should include a minimum of 6
–
8 good quality scholarly references for the text content.
Q: Can we use other software to prepare the poster?
A: Yes, as long as the poster canvas can be formatted to AO size (119cm x 84cm) and can be saved as a
PDF to be uploaded to Canvas.
Q: Can we embed media in the poster?
A
: As this is a PP the speech is part of each slide and you need to check that it is working .
Q:
Video
oral presentation
–
who are we talking to?
A: You are to imagine that you are presenting your poster to your peers. So you can include
language, research and information that helps to explain your topic further. Some suggested
topics:
I
ntroduction to the topic and
describe
the target audience
, where might the poster be displayed
in real life
- Background to the problem
–
eg.
sta
tistics about
the
problem
- What are
the key risk/protective factors?
- What are the key health promotion messages you wanted to convey
?
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