Health Awareness Days
Sufficient Evidence to Support the Craze
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11040127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Purtle (0000-0001-6908-5944, Jonathan Purtle is with the Department of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA. Leah A. Roman is with Roman Public Health Consulting LLC, Philadelphia.), Leah A Roman (0000-0001-8912-3805, Jonathan Purtle is with the Department of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA. Leah A. Roman is with Roman Public Health Consulting LLC, Philadelphia.) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1061-1065 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2015.302621 |
| PMID | 25879148 |
| OpenAlex | W2088936352 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 24 |
Health awareness initiatives are a ubiquitous intervention strategy. Nearly 200 health awareness days, weeks, and months are on the US National Health Observances calendar, and more than 145 awareness day bills have been introduced in Congress since 2005. We contend that health awareness days are not held to appropriate scrutiny given the scale at which they have been embraced and are misaligned with research on the social determinants of health and the tenets of ecological models of health promotion. We examined health awareness days from a critical public health perspective and offer empirically supported recommendations to advance the intervention strategy. If left unchecked, health awareness days may do little more than reinforce ideologies of individual responsibility and the false notion that adverse health outcomes are simply the product of misinformed behaviors
Environmental health · Health education · Health equity · Health promotion · Ideology · Intervention (counseling) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Scale (ratio) · Scrutiny · Social determinants of health · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education · School Health and Nursing Education · Health Policy
Purtle and Roman Respond
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Factors influencing awareness of healthcare providers on maternal sepsis
Behavior Change Around an Online Health Awareness Campaign
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Leveraging mass media for disseminating information on health awareness days
Lost Prevention? Assessing Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Potential in Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events
Re-evaluating national suicide prevention month
Using Google Trends to assess the impact of global public health days on online health information seeking behaviour in Central and South America
Exploring the Methodological Benefits and Challenges of Utilising a Photovoice Methodology With Individuals in Recovery From Problem Substance Use
Caribbean Wellness Day
The value of health awareness days, weeks and months
Regarding Health Awareness Days
Presuppositions Underlying Health Awareness Days
Purtle and Roman Respond
Selling Pink
The Built Environment and Obesity
Food access and obesity
Compassion Fatigue
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Unintended Effects of Health Communication Campaigns
Burden of leprosy in Malawi
Years On
A Framework for Public Health Action
Social Ecological Approaches to Individuals and Their Contexts
| Citations per year | 1.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |