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Essay / Public Health Overview - 979
Public health strives to protect and improve the quality of life of individuals and the entire community through disease research, prevention and control injuries and promoting healthy behaviors. Public health science includes a number of fields, including health policy and management, health education, biostatistics, environmental health, and epidemiology, among others. This video will focus on some of the concepts listed, particularly injury control and prevention, particularly motor vehicle injuries, health policy, and environmental health. In order to correctly address each theme and illustrate its application in the field of public health, it will integrate public health agents and students. The target audience is medical students who may be interested in public health. This is primarily because in addition to doctor-patient interaction, some students may wish to broaden their individual view to a population-based view. Public health professionals use social marketing and health communications practices to design and implement programs. , which then help solve certain community problems. The communication process has essential elements, namely the channel, the source, the recipient of the information and the message. The health communication in this video is designed to be crucial in informing and influencing students' career decisions. The recipients of the message are clearly medical students and the video represents the channel through which the information will be delivered. Again, the sole purpose of the video will be to motivate medical students to consider public health as a career option (Rimal and Lapinski, 2009). A survey link will also...... middle of article...... Works Cited Auld, ME, Galer-Unti, RA, Radius, S., & Miner, KR (2003). Making a difference in defending public health. Am J Public Health, 93(12), 1984-1985. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Gateway to health communication and the practice of social marketing. Accessed December 9, 2013, from http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/HealthBasics/WhatIsHC.htmlCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Injury prevention and control. Accessed December 9, 2013, from http://www.cdc.gov/injury/about/focus-mvs.html Schneider, MJ. (2014). Simmons, R., Brawer, C. and Plumb, J. December 3, 2013. Injury Prevention and Control. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://jefferson.blackboard.com/Rimal, NR & Lapinski, MK (2009). Why health communication is important in public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization,87(4), 247-247.