After reading several classmates' comments on this week's blog, I am strongly agree with them about prevention and education. Prevention is the key to change a person's behavior however we need to implement our preventive methods more effectively by putting marketing, advertising, psycholoigically together. We are selling a healthier choice to people but we need to make sure the target population get it and like it as well. I think when we are trying to stop somebody from doing something, we should also give them alternative choices that they feel they are not completely cut off from their addictive unhealthy behavior. For example, we all know fried chicken is not good for the health, then we can promote more of grill chicken (el pollo loco), then slowly advocate the idea of eating water broiled chicken or something. This is one of the psychology theories to change a person's behavior by changing by steps.
Education will be included in preventive method, and it should start as soon as possible. Target population will be 6 year old children and pregranted mothers. Pregranted women are very sentitive about their incoming babies and most of time they are extra careful on their health since they want their babies to be health, therefore, it will be a very good idea to educate the "soon-to-be" mothers on health education even before the babies are born.
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