Unit 7 Discussion

Health Promotion and Education Success

Despite the efforts of public health professionals to educate and change behaviors, people still have poor eating habits, do not exercise, smoke tobacco, take illicit drugs, etc. Hypothesize what could be done to actually change behaviors based on the case studies from this week. Use a successful campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found at the following website, with statistics to illustrate community improvement.

Source: Morbidity and mortality weekly report: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/publications/index.html