Critique the intersection between the environment, public health disasters and emergencies, the health of populations and the factors that influence responses
Compare and contrast public health responses
Design public health communication strategies to aid mitigation, response and recovery
Topic overview
In this assessment you will prepare a new bushfire communication strategy for Marysville as per recommendations made after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires (2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission 2010, p. 23; see ‘Resources and readings relevant for assessment’ section). Your communication strategy should be addressed as a report to the Murrindindi Shire Council and feature recommendations for communications at all stages of the emergency management cycle.
The town of Marysville has unique factors and potential communication barriers including but not limited to the:
location
environment around Marysville
demographics of the area
services in available the region such as mobile phone coverage.
Your report should explain how these factors and other barriers to implementation are considered in your communication strategy.
Assessment criteria will measure your ability to:
Analyze the context: analyses and syntheses Marysville’s unique factors in relation to bushfires and potential community messaging (20%)
Recommend a communication strategy: recommendations for the new communication strategy are consistent with public health response concepts and the context of the targeted population (50%)
Analyze potential barriers identifies and analyses potential barriers to implementation of communication strategies and addresses the path to implementing recommendations (20%)
Prepare a quality report: the report should be well structured and well written with no errors in spelling and grammar; references should be cited correctly in Harvard style (10%)
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