Effective communication is an important competency of a public health profession

Effective communication is an important competency of a public health professional. The public health professional must be trained to handle inquiries from the public, the scientific community, internal communication activities, and media requests. Examples of some of the communication platforms to disseminate public health information including brochures & fact sheets, videos, social media, web pages, news releases, exhibits, religious congregations, and town hall meetings. It is critical that you know your selected audience to use appropriate communications platforms to disseminate public health information.
This is an important discussion assignment where you will describe a target audience to which you will recommend an appropriate communication platform to disseminate public health information. By now you have an idea that which is your target audience (population, gender, people from a particular occupation, education level age group, sex, region, lifestyle, etc.). Based on your research, and interest in the identified target audience.
(Read the articles – (( What we know about Links -https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/pdf/audience/healthliteracy.pdf ))
Social Media Misinformation (( Links- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10410236.2017.1331312?needAccess=true ))
you will post a brief description that why you selected this particular segment of the population as your target audience (150 words). In the same description, you will also describe what will be the appropriate format of communication (TV, Newspaper, Poster, presentation) and why you think is that your selected communication platform is appropriate for your audience (75 words). After submitting your post (50 points), you will participate on a discussion board on the topic of the
(( target audience Links – https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/audience/ ))
and (( What we know about Links – https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/pdf/audience/healthliteracy.pdf))
(( Social Media Misinformation Links – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10410236.2017.1331312?needAccess=true ))
These health literacy articles and on the appropriateness of various dissemination formats (What we know about (Links to an external site.), Social Media Misinformation (Links to an external site.)) will help you form your argument to provide constructive feedback to your peers. Do not create a separate discussion thread. Thoughtful and constructive comments on your peers’ posts by simply replying in the same thread will earn you 10 points for each comment. It will depend on the quality of your comments posted.
This is what you will do:
Submit your own post describing the selected audience (150 words) and the appropriateness of the communication platform (75 words) you chose to disseminate the public health information -50 points