Walden HLTH6412 Module 6 Discussion Latest 2025

HLTH6412-1/HLTH8412E-1/HLTH5412 Health Ed & Comm. Strategies

Module 6 Discussion

HEALTH ADVOCACY

Health advocacy is the act of promoting health and well-being for the populations. It may include supporting health policies, empowering positive behavior change, reducing health disparities, promoting health equity, and preventing health issues. Advocating for health and positive health behaviors is one of the professional responsibilities of health educators. To be an effective health educator, health advocacy priorities represent a benchmark for informing the practice of health education. In many cases, health policy change might be more effective than health education. For this assignment, you will critique a health advocacy letter and suggest improvements.

Note:?In grading every required Assignment, your Instructor uses an Assignment Rubric. Review the Rubric prior to completing your Assignment.

This Discussion will be available from Day 1 through Day 7 of this week. You are required to submit your initial post by Day 3. You are encouraged to post early. Once you have submitted your initial post, start responding with your colleagues. You must begin responding to your colleagues by no later than Day 5 and should continue to interact frequently with your colleagues through Day 7. Part of what makes a Discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back and forth, in depth, animated interaction of at least two people. If you start a topic and none of your peers are responding to your post, consider what you can do to get the conversation going. Include something that would elicit further thoughts and different opinions from peers. Validate your opinions with references and links to the sources that you used so that your peers can read it for themselves. See your Discussion Rubric for specific grading requirements.

RESOURCES

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WEEKLY RESOURCES

To prepare for this Discussion

Review this Module's Learning Resources.

BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 10

Post your response to the Discussion area in the Canvas classroom.

Review the following Advocacy letter:

Student Walden

000-000-0000

To the Iowa State Senate

111 Seventh Street

Cedar Rapids, IA 52401

Dear Legislator/Senator,

Iowa is one of the few states in the United States without motorcycle helmet safety laws. I would like to educate motorcyclists on the benefits of wearing a helmet and the long-term health effects of brain injury if such an event would occur.

The current laws are not protecting our motorcyclist out on the road. Motorcyclists are more likely to die in a crash compared to those riding in an enclosed vehicle. Health effects from motorcycle crashes can result in long term traumatic brain injury resulting in an economic cost for society.

I am asking the current legislation to mandate all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Please support Bill 586 to mandate motorcycle helmets for all riders in the state of Iowa.

Sincerely,

Student Walden

Address the following in your initial post:

Assess 3 components that could strengthen the impact of this advocacy letter.

Rewrite the advocacy letter incorporating these three components and highlight them in your post.

Use two references to support your response.

BY DAY 5 OF WEEK 10

Respond to two classmates by one of the following ways:

Expand on the suggestions of your classmates to make the advocacy letter more effective.

Continue to engage in the Discussion until it ends on Day 7.

Information should be cited using APA style.