An Agenda Setting Function...

This weeks guest speaker was quite intriguing. A public health agenda is influenced by public, legislative and media interest. Their is currently a strong need for public health professionals to advocate on issues affecting communities in the United States. Organizations like the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Amplify Your Voice, the Great American Condom Campaign address issues that affect specific populations by lobbying against or for certain actions to improve the overall health and well being of individuals. I would highly consider being exposed to how the government sets an agenda to public health issues...especially because funding is highly dependent on what the main intrest is at a specific point at time.

I enjoyed conducting the interviews for our group project this week. It was fun looking over what respondents had to say about the ad we came up with. Overall I think we choose a challenging subject to conduct an intervention on however, energy drink consumption is becoming a concerning issue in public health and because of the availability of more and more energy drinks it is important not to continue focusing on issues that concern specific populations.