Module 5 Assignment

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Due By Assignment Days 1–3 Read the resources, as indicated, on the Learning Resources page for Modules 1–5

Compose your initial response to Discussion.

Day 3 Post initial Discussion response.

Day 3–7 Review peer postings. Compose your peer responses. Compose your Assignment.

Day 7 Post peer responses.

Days 7–13 Continue the Discussion. Answer any questions posted to you. Continue to compose your Assignment.

Day 14 Wrap up the discussion

Day 14 Final Paper due

Learning Resources Required Readings

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2016). National health education standards. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/sher/standards/index.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015e). Action steps to address health and educational disparities. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/disparities/action.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2016c). Health education curriculum analysis tool (HECAT). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/hecat/index.htm

HealthyPeople.gov. (2017a). About healthy people. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/default.aspx

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Media

National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). (n.d.-a). Retrieved April 19, 2017, from http://www.nchec.org/

National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). (2017). Retrieved from http://www.neha.org/index.shtml

Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). (2017a). Retrieved from http://www.sophe.org/

Walden University. (n.d.c). Social Change page. Retrieved from https://www.waldenu.edu/about/social-change

Walden University. (n.d.d). Journal of Social Change. Retrieved from http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/jsc/

Walden University. (2017b). Scholars of change [Multimedia file]. Retrieved from http://www.waldenu.edu/about/social-change/scholars-of-change

Wasserman, I. C., & Kram, K. E. (2009). Enacting the scholar-practitioner role: An exploration of narratives. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 45(1), 12–38.

Jacobs, J. A., Jones, E., Gabella, B. A., Spring, B., & Brownson, R. C. (2012). Tools for implementing an evidence-based approach in public health practice. CDC Preventing Chronic Disease, 9(6). doi:10.5888/pcd9.110324. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2012/pdf/11_0324.pdf

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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.

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

Laureate Education (Producer). (2014c). Introduction to the Howard County Health Department [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes. Also, this media is required viewing in Module 4. It appears in Module 5 as an option for your review.