About the Campaign
- Objectives:
- Reframe beliefs regarding health determinants, inequities, roles of personal responsibility and healthcare
- Provide basic understanding of health determinants
- Promote support for and engagement in policies that will help achieve health equity, through voting, response to public policies, commercial activity, community and faith-based activities, and personal/interpersonal behavior
Twitter Account
We hope to establish a new Twitter account to share Healing Public Health content and analysis. It will be focused on clarifying the connections from business and government decisions to population safety and wellbeing – bringing together people, policies, and science. The success can be evaluated through follows, retweets, comments, click-throughs, and other interaction.
- Sample tweets:
- Transportation plans may not be exciting, but being able to get to work is! Transportation departments have more power than you realize over families’ access to income, health insurance, & daily needs.
- Head to our website for topical issue briefs for promoting health equity when you vote, shop, and lead. healingph.org
- Good mental health => behaviors that keep us safe and healthy – preventing trauma & stress, creating restorative environments, detecting & treating mental illness is essential to wellbeing & health equity.
Promotional Materials
We’ll be offering t-shirts, buttons, mugs, and other items for sale with impactful, edgy statements related to transforming and healing our communities. These items may be purchased by followers and trainees. The purpose is to prompt conversations with family, friends, colleagues, and others. The successful impact of these materials can be measured through product sales. A few examples are provided below.
Video Overview
This 3-minute video explains the basics of health determinants, equity, and the ways that everyone can help make our communities safer and healthier. The script explains community wellbeing as a function of policies, systems, and environments, with personal responsibility and medical care playing a smaller role than people realize. The video emphasizes reasons why you might want to improve health equity in your community, and describes actions that policymakers, community members, and organizations can take today. The success of the video can be evaluated through views and likes.
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