Impact Of Social Media On Health Promotion

Social media has become a part of life; in fact, it is probably the most valuable tools that public health professionals can use to help launch a campaign for health promotion and disease prevention. With that said, although social media has made it easier to reach the youth for health promotion, social media is not the only tool that can help disseminate information to the entire population. Before Social media, people were still able to be informed by using a telephone, television, public service announcements, print, and radio (Walden University Online Lecture, n.d.).
A phone never loses value; in fact, a telephone is one of the most important forms of communication to reach many people in a chosen population. The phone can be used to conduct counseling for a particular issue. For …show more content…
Theses tool would be appropriate for the Diabetes Prevention Campaign because motivational phone calls, can be used to motivate the population as well as providing counseling while gathering valuable information from the community. The first step of the screening process can also be done over the phone with the consent of the participant. In 1992, a successful campaign was conducted to raise awareness and knowledge about diabetes, and the method used for that campaign a telephone questionnaire (Penn, Stevenson, McMahon, Bodansky, 1992). Therefore, it is possible to use a survey to gather information during prescreening for the diabetes prevention campaign. Another tool that could be beneficial for the diabetes prevention campaign is the use of public service announcements. Using a mass media campaign involving Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses from all public services to help raise awareness in the target population would help to reach a large group at a low cost (Cavil & Bauman, 2004). Using public services also would be at a lower cost than using the forever evolving social