Question

Select a health communication campaign that you would like to develop in your community or city based on one of the six most prevalent serious health problems currently faced by communities today, such as poverty, health security, and communicable diseases.

• Identify your chosen problem and elaborate why it is a health concern.
• Identify how you will assess the need for the program. What type of data will you review?
• How will you determine the target audience?

Answer 1

The chose problem : communicable diseases .

Communicable diseases is of a major concern for any community if not prevented an outbreak can cause lot of mortality and morbidity.various communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS,influenza, mumps,measles,viral hepatitis can all be prevented by understanding the modes of transmission, hygiene, vaccination.

How to assess the communication need

Communication need can be assessed by a questionnaire,survey,

Questionnaires can be prepared in the form of multiple choice questions either developed manually or in the form of application.technology can be used to assess the communication needs in the form surveys in the app,social media,need can also be assessed by random surveys at malls,public locations

Type of data to be reviewed:when a communication campaign on communicable diseases is to be arranged we need to review the latest statistics on the diseases state wise,we should know the epidemiology of the diseases,the previous outbreaks of the particular diseases.

Determining the target audience:when target audience is decided it should involve all stakeholders like hospitals, community health workers, community.the basic audience is the general public.

Communication campaign can be carried in the form of audiovisual messages,street plays,lectures, at railway station, hospitals, malls