The following is a list of suggested activities to disseminate health messages during the World Health Day 2013 campaign.
Hold health conferences and fairs and fun runs
Develop educational materials containing health messages
Give technical presentations to experts and champions
Obtain endorsements and enlist the participation of athletes, celebrities and government officials in events
Develop public service announcements and news releases
Hold assemblies, conferences, workshops and symposia
Encourage class or study group discussions
Assign student assignments (essays, research and book reports)
Create games and contests (posters, writing, photography, essays, exercise and art)
Distribute information from health departments and co-sponsors
Invite guest speakers to events
Create plays, music, films and audiovisual presentations
Conduct diagnostic screenings.
In addition, you may consider:
involving members of parliament, government officials and the media to promote health messages and highlight risk factors causing hypertension
issuing commemorative postage stamps bearing the World Health Day slogan
organizing special lectures and discussions in health forums and syndicates
displaying video material for placement in waiting rooms in public places, including hospitals and clinics to raise awareness
encouraging nongovernmental organizations to participate in events
asking religious leaders in mosques and churches to devote sermons during the first week of April 2013 to the theme of health promotion and lifestyle approaches to prevent high blood pressure and other noncommunicable diseases
encouraging national and local media outlets to promote the World Health Day campaign
advocating with the Ministry of Education to allocate at least one hour a day in all primary, preparatory and secondary schools, and medical schools in particular, during the week of World Health Day to talk about aspects of prevention and control of hypertension and noncommunicable disease risk factors, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity; a videoconference could be arranged for this purpose to link governorates.
