THEORY!!

AHHH Theory!! My first initial thoughts when I realized that was what this past week was about. This week has brought me back to memories of 661. Its been more than a year since I've taken that class and remembering all the theories was definitely a challenge for me as some of the theories tended to mush together in my head. But going over a review of the theories helped to refresh my memory and now it doesn't seem as much of a mush in my head. I can say that I also was a bit worried when I realized that my article was on the Integrative model because it was theory all over again, but to my surprise it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Aside from theory, doing the Code your communication activity was really interesting to me as it was to many others in the class. I really thought my definition was all inclusive of what health communication entails but it made me realized that what health communication may mean to one individual, especially a public health professional, may not be what another person completely out of the health field would think. Something that I think is very important to consider when creating a health campaign because you'd want to make sure that your message will reach everyone. So you'd have to make sure that you really tailor your message as we also learned this past week, with the Five Dimensions of Communications. Key points that we must remember as we work on our projects this semester. In our nutrition group, whether we decide to work on fruits and vegetables intake with children or lower soda consumption in college students, or even something very different, we need to make sure that we cover all dimensions in our target population so that we can properly reach them. I look forward to see how our project develops this semester. Let's go Nutrition Revolution!!