public health audience 1

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.

  1. Define and support your target audience, and be sure to specify if there will be more than one targeted audience
  2. Define the specific message you will relay to your audience(s)
  3. Explain how, specifically, you will convey this message to your audience(s), including actions to be undertaken and personnel involved
  4. Discuss at least two ways that you could use social media as a means for reaching your audience(s)
  5. 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 individ
  6. 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.

Salmonella Mbandaka Infections Linked to Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal

Background: The ABC Health Department has made no announcements to the general public. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not publicly identified areas of the country with clusters of HIV and syphilis as it often does with other communicable diseases such as measles or hepatitis.

Your Role: You are a health educator at the health department.

Scenario: At least 100 people, including some high school students, have contracted HIV, syphilis or both in one of the largest sexually transmitted infection clusters discovered in this city of 575,000. There have also been 2 babies born with congenital syphilis and 4 babies born with HIV. The ABC Health Department needs the health educators to launch a series of advertisements promoting free, confidential sexually transmitted disease testing.

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Salmonella Mbandaka Infections Linked to Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal

Background: The ABC Health Department has made no announcements to the general public. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not publicly identified areas of the country with clusters of HIV and syphilis as it often does with other communicable diseases such as measles or hepatitis.

Your Role: You are a health educator at the health department.

Scenario: At least 100 people, including some high school students, have contracted HIV, syphilis or both in one of the largest sexually transmitted infection clusters discovered in this city of 575,000. There have also been 2 babies born with congenital syphilis and 4 babies born with HIV. The ABC Health Department needs the health educators to launch a series of advertisements promoting free, confidential sexually transmitted disease testing.