write an article on covid -19 spreading awerness about the same.
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Message Design Strategies to Raise Public Awareness of Social Determinants of Health and Population Health Disparities
Jeff Niederdeppe, Q Lisa Bu, [...], and Stephanie A Robert
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Abstract
Context
Raising public awareness of the importance of social determinants of health (SDH) and health disparities presents formidable communication challenges.
Methods
This article reviews three message strategies that could be used to raise awareness of SDH and health disparities: message framing, narratives, and visual imagery.
Findings
Although few studies have directly tested message strategies for raising awareness of SDH and health disparities, the accumulated evidence from other domains suggests that population health advocates should frame messages to acknowledge a role for individual decisions about behavior but emphasize SDH. These messages might use narratives to provide examples of individuals facing structural barriers (unsafe working conditions, neighborhood safety concerns, lack of civic opportunities) in efforts to avoid poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, and other social determinants. Evocative visual images that invite generalizations, suggest causal interpretations, highlight contrasts, and create analogies could accompany these narratives. These narratives and images should not distract attention from SDH and population health disparities, activate negative stereotypes, or provoke counterproductive emotional responses directed at the source of the message.
Conclusions
The field of communication science offers valuable insights into ways that population health advocates and researchers might develop better messages to shape public opinion and debate about the social conditions that shape the health and well-being of populations. The time has arrived to begin thinking systematically about issues in communicating about SDH and health disparities. This article offers a broad framework for these efforts and concludes with an agenda for future research to refine message strategies to raise awareness of SDH and health disparities.
Keywords: Health disparities, social determinants of health, narratives, framing
In recent years, the broad determinants of population health in the United States and other countries have received renewed attention (Kindig and Stoddart 2003; Kunitz 2007; Wilkinson and Marmot 2003). Two principal ideas characterize this emerging population health research. The first is attention to the nonmedical and behavioral determinants of health, highlighting the importance of not only access to medical care and health behaviors but also economic and social determinants of health (referred to here as SDH) such as poverty, education, working conditions, housing conditions, social support, stress, and neighborhood context (e.g., Berkman and Kawachi 2000; Wilkinson and Marmot 2003). The second idea is a focus on the distribution of health, not just the average level of health, across populations (e.g., Kindig 2007; Mechanic 2007). Consequently, recent research has centered on understanding health disparities, particularly those by race and socioeconomic status (SES), and their complex economic, social, and biological determinants (Adler et al. 2007; Berkman and Kawachi 2000; Williams and Jackson 2005).
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