In this activity, you will explore health promotion initiatives in your community and write a discussion forum to describe them.

Step 1. Explore (30 minutes)

Look for existing health promotion initiatives in your community. It can be a television commercial, radio or newspaper advertisement, or a social media post. Select one health promotion initiative of your interest.

Step 2. Analyze (30 minutes)

Analyze how the selected health promotion initiative is able to address the following questions:

• What particular health behavior does it aim to address?
• How does it educate people to adapt to healthy behaviors without compromising safety?
• How does it provide anticipatory guidance to patients suffering from health behavior?
• Can the health promotion initiative be adapted to address addiction-related behavior such as habitual cannabis and alcohol consumption? How?

Step 3. Respond (180 minutes)

Respond by writing a 300-600 word discussion forum that describes the selected health promotion, including the four questions in Step 2. 

Step 4: Share (10 minutes)

To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work into the “Message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

OPTIONAL Step 5: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”