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Performance Indicators
Performance Indicators
8.12.1 Utilize accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message.
8.12.2 Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.
8.12.3 Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving personal, family, and community health.
8.12.4 Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific target audience.
Importance
Importance
As someone who is practicing healthy behaviors, how can you promote these healthy behaviors to others? How can you influence others to take steps to improve their health?
How advocacy helps:
How advocacy helps:
Address health inequalities
Bring awareness to certain health risks
Mobilizing resources
Influencing health policy and creating change (Hubinette, 2017)
Create posters, videos, clubs, or set up events that can promote healthy behavior and reduce risky behaviors. Social media can be a powerful tool to advocate for various health topics as it is most relevant to teens and can reach so many at once.
References
References
Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Scott, I., & Sherbino, J. (2017). Health advocacy. Medical teacher, 39(2), 128–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1245853
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