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Public Health Campaigns
- 1. Welcome to the world of Public Health Campaigns! Comm 201 Yana Koroleva
- 3. Here is an “official definition”: Public Health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" (1920, C.E.A. Winslow)
- 5. Public Health professionals are concerned with YOUR health and create campaigns to do important things like:
- 6. Inform about the importance of helmets for motorcyclists
- 7. Promote Active Lifestyle
- 8. So that you can chill on the beach without worries!
- 12. Here is an example of a Public Health Campaign that promotes a balanced diet:
- 13. And here Bill Clinton is discussing an important issue of HIV/AIDS
- 14. Public Health professionals and even politicians use such campaigns to keep the public healthy
- 15. Because it is much better to prevent diseases than treat them! And way cheaper too!!!
- 17. Public Health Campaigns are being used in Health Communication area to send people a message promoting health or warning about health risks. To put it simply: They are determined to make your life better! Awesome, right?!
- 18. How?! Here is an example! Did you have to do the Smallpox vaccine?! Umm…No…. That’s because it Public Health professionals promoted vaccination and eradicated the disease from the world. Now it only exists in labs and millions of people are being saved! Wow! That’s Awesome! And now I don’t have to do the painful vaccination!
- 19. Now can you see that Public Health Campaigns deal with big issues that affect the whole population?! Therefore…They affect YOU!
- 20. Public Health Campaigns really seem to be important….Then why do they still get criticized?!
- 21. Critics are concerned with things like: etc.
- 22. Some Interesting Facts about Public Health
- 23. USA is ranked number 1 among countries that spend the most on healthcare …. And number 27 in the highest life expectancy list …. We spend $100 billion a year treating heart disease while its major causes-obesity, diabetes and hypertension are preventable ….. At the same time only 2 to 3 % of health care spending goes for preventing illnesses
- 24. Obesity Smoking and Alcohol , are the leading causes of deaths…. Public Health Campaigns CAN change that!
- 25. The Government needs to invest more money into preventing diseases and create Public Health Campaigns that will make people change their behaviors!
- 26. Stay Healthy!
- 27. Credits Info: Images: 1. Winslow, C.E.A (1920 ). "The untilled Photo on slide 20 by Arturo Ceccopieri fields of public health". Science 51 Photo on slide 19 by Nelly Ciolkowski (1306): 23–33. Other photos by Yana Koroleva 2. (2008). Better health through http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/6426696 prevention. Center of science in public 593/in/faves-74732769@N02/ interest http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/662987 3557/in/faves-74732769@N02/ THE END.