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Health communication channels are very important during health crisis.
Choose one communication channel and discuss its advantages and disadvantages (paragraph for each).
Instructions for Completing the Discussion Questions: Please post your original response by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Your response should be a minimum of 5 sentences but should not exceed 250 words.
Appropriately cite any of the references that you use to fully answer the questions.
Health communication channels are very important during health crisis. Mass media is an important health communication channel especially for communicating with a large number of people
Advantages
1.It increases knowledge and awàreness of large no of people during health crisis
2.It influence behavior and attitude of people during health crisis
3 It demonatrate modifications needed in health behavior of people
4.It increase demand or suupport for health services during crisis
Disadvantages
1.it shows gap between individual health literacy
2.sometimes it shows flaws in communicating information
3. Unfortunate ability for false and misinformed messages to spread
4.May generate unwanted panic situation
5.Lack of ability to control messages