Health Campaigns

So, this week in class we had our second round of presentations about our health communication campaigns. All of the groups did much better than the 1st round. Although it's been difficult for many of us to reach our target audiences, especially my group, "The Walking School Bus", it looks liek we're headed in the right direction. Who knows, you may just see some of these first hand in the future if they can be put into action by the organizations we are working with.

Who Knew?

So...as expected, I suck at this blogging thing. I don't really like to be on the computer, so it's not exactly the first thing I think about doing. Anyway, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and didn't eat too much.

So, most recently we've been looking at public health issues addressed in pop culture and entertainment. Remember, all of those cheesy t.v. shows we used to watch, like :Saved by the Bell" and how they used to bring up topics affecting teens at the time. What about songs like "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera. Most of us know the words to just about every song on the radio, yet we don't often think about the meaning behind them.

We watched a video clips from movies that I normally wouldn't have thought about as promoting health topics. Who knew it was so simple to use entertainment as a source for health communication?

Take a moment to really pay attention to what your watching or listening to and see how many health issues you notice. I'm sure you'll be surprised. I was!