141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Rewind: Eating in the 21st century

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 5:06 PM - 5:18 PM

Susana Leong, EdD , University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
A movie trailer is a great way to use snippets of a story to convey a subtle message. For some individuals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner might come from a vending machine. Some fast food restaurants are open 24 hours and they offer super-sized items. Food items are purchased online instead of in a grocery store. The grocery store itself may seem overwhelming. Some vegetables are prepackaged and others come with dirt on the actual vegetable. There seems to be one too many brands of food and it is getting very hard to navigate the supermarket. The trailer ends with images of eggs, which is the opposite of the image of the vending machine in the beginning of the video. If the viewer wants to learn more about the series of short clips then they would need to watch the entire video when it is available.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Other professions or practice related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Analyze the benefit of using a movie trailer as a public service announcement Discuss the value of a series of short clips in a video

Keywords: Food and Nutrition, Access

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a Certified Health Education Specialist with a doctorate in Health Education from Columbia University. My research interests include addressing nutritional behaviors in adolescents during the transitional period from high school to college; using media as a teaching tool; and reducing health disparities through education, research, and community partnerships.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.