Suggested Health Promotion Activities
 Local Partners:HH Members across the US
Initiated: 2006
Activity Goal: Health for Humanity recognizes the responsibility of the community in fostering a healthy environment in which children and families can grow and mature into happy, healthy, service-oriented individuals.
Project Summary: HH supports the domestic health service activities of its members primarily through "How To” manuals. These manuals and additional support information for many of these activities are available on the Resources Page. If you are interested in organizing a health promotion activity in your community, please call or email the office today.
Suggested Health Awareness Activities
1. Breast Cancer awareness: easy-to-organize activities to promote breast cancer awareness and to educate the community about breast cancer prevention.
2. HIV/AIDS awareness: simple activities to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and to educate the community about HIV/AIDS prevention. Optional add-on: educational sessions about HIV/AIDS abroad.
3. Pre/Post-natal awareness: small activities to promote healthy pre- and post-natal behaviors and to educate the community about health concerns that can occur pre- and post-natally.
Suggested Health Education Activities
1. Discussion on global health: lectures, panels, discussions, or debates about global health with education being the main goal.
2. Smoking Prevention: using the model created by HH groups in Ohio and Portland, these presentations provide smoking prevention programming to youth and adults.
3. Wellness lectures: using the model created in Ohio, wellness lectures provide education and awareness about a number of health-related issues.
4. Asthma education: workshops given to youth and their parents about living with asthma as well as prevention tips.
Suggested Health Outreach Activities
1. Community health fairs: to educate the community about many different health topics. These fairs provide educational displays or free health screenings through booths set up by various health organizations in a local community.
2. Vision screening drive: to eliminate avoidable blindness. This is a health outreach event where volunteers provide free vision screenings in the community, either in isolation or through a health fair.
3. Blood Drives: to help ameliorate the blood shortage in America. The volunteers’ main responsibilities would be organizing and publicizing a blood drive in partnership with a local blood bank. |
