Health Promotion Critique

Critique of Client Health Related Educational Material Within the current health care system, there is a large emphasis on health promotion to reduce the incidence of diseases occurring in the population. Health promotion consists of several tactics to prevent diseases by providing education to the public to stop behaviours that contribute to disease and to detect diseases early. Therefore, in order for the health promotion techniques to work, it is important to deliver the information in a manner that is specific to the target audience. There are several factors that need to be considered when delivering education to an individual and the most important factor is a person’s willingness to change (National Cancer Institute, 2005). Ultimately

Due to the social acceptance and peer pressure to consume alcohol trying to educate the target audience on safe methods of alcohol consumption can be difficult and the learners may ignore all statements to fit in (Wechsler & Kuo, 2000). The large obstacle for educating individuals on safe drinking habits is the need to have social acceptance to allow them to establish relationships and the concept of not drinking for these individuals is directly related to being isolated from peers (Bastable, 2014, p. 193). The article uses a language that does not preach abstaining from drinking alcohol, as long you fit into the safe drinking guidelines, for example being nineteen in Canada or twenty one in the United States. Accordingly, this allows the target audience to be able to be accepted by their peers and build meaningful relationships, but in a way that is not detrimental to their health. Young adults during this stage of life are focused on their future and developing a lifestyle that will likely influence how they are as an older adult (Bastable, 2014, p. 192). The fact sheet takes into consideration that young adults are building these lifestyles and focuses highly on the long-term effects of binge drinking to deter individuals from developing a habit of drinking unsafely. Consequently, teaching in this age

One major issue with the document used to educate young adults about safe alcohol consumption is that the document does not suggest what amount of alcohol is safe to drink in a given time frame. This is not beneficial because drinking is a large part of the university or college atmosphere and young adults may feel left out if they abstain from drinking entirely (Foster, Bass, & Bruce, 2011). Therefore, they will likely disregard the material because it does not fit into their social norms. In addition to prohibiting alcohol consumption the brochure also does not produce any emotions, which would make the learner remember what they learned (Brown, & Locker, 2009). The strengths of this brochure are that it keeps the information short and is very direct with its intentions. Reducing the complexity and amount of information is beneficial to the learner because they will not be overwhelmed when reading the fact