Examples of risky behavior may include smoking, alcohol consumption, unprotected sexual behavior, and drug abuse. Understanding risk behaviors is integral to prevention, education, and policy making activities. It is important for a public health professional to be able to apply critical thinking and evidence based scientific principles to educational activities and outreach for risk behaviors as well as to be able to effectively communicate audience-appropriate public health content both in writing and through oral presentation.

Here is my Topic

 I have chosen to focus on sedentary lifestyle as the health risk behavior and the elderly population (aged 65 and above) as the target audience for our discussion. I selected this behavior because of its significant impact on the elderly, including increased risks of cardiovascular diseases, Type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline, and reduced quality of life. Sedentary lifestyle is also highly modifiable with targeted interventions, making it a critical area for health promotion and intervention. 

Slide presentations are used to efficiently and effectively communicate a message to a target audience in a short period of time. A slide presentation made using your webcam or other means to capture the audio/oral portion of your presentation (narration) is more effective than just a slide presentation without any narration and will help you better connect with your audience and verbally flesh out the slides.

First, you will create a narrated oral slide presentation, a transcript of your narration, and a written one-page handout to educate a population about a health risk behavior that your research has indicated impacts that population. To help you communicate clearly with your target audience, you will be expected to review and utilize relevant sections from the NIH Clear Communication website that was introduced in Module 1. 

To effectively educate your target audience about the topic you chose, your presentation must include the following:

• An appropriate title slide, with name, date, course and section, title, and underneath the title, a prepared for X audiencestatement
• A slide providing key points for what the audience will learn from the presentation
• A slide listing the important health related consequences of the behavior
• 1–3 slides to explain the pathophysiology of one important health related consequence from the prior slide
• 1–3 slides to explain the pathophysiology of a second important health consequence from your list
• 1–2 slides with data on morbidity and/or mortality rates for the health consequences identified
• 1–3 slides on prevention strategies that would be useful to your target audience
• A slide with a final take home message
• A final slide set with references—properly alphabetized and in APA format (Note: Use as many slides as are needed for readability.)
• In-text citations, when needed, to show what information came from which reference (Note: References may be placed in small font at the bottom of each slide where they were used, but you still need to have the final slides with all of the listed references.)

• Prepare a written transcript of your narration in a separate Word document. Submit your completed transcript to the Module 2 Assignment Part 2 folder and also post to the Discussion board.
• Prepare a handout of the same topic in a separate Word document. Submit your completed handout to the Module 2 Assignment Part 2 folder with the transcription and also post to the Discussion board. The handout must include the following:
  • Same title as the presentation
  • Key points from the presentation
  • Health risk consequences
  • Prevention strategies/ A call to action
  • References, references may be on a separate page