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How to plan for a public health programme in your station

• How is your community made up? Who are your audiences?
  • Map your community: identify the many sub-communities there are Generic groupings include women and men, youth and elderly; but also different ethnic or religious groups are important, as well as different livelihood or professional groups, and special profile neighbourhoods: disadvantaged, affluent or other.
  • Each of these groups will have its own specific context (traditions, rules, challenges, vulnerabilities etc.), hopes and interests as well as resources and possible contributions to make.
  • You can consider making a physical map if this helps remember all.
• Select the one or two target groups you should like to focus on for a beginning.

Identifying the public health needs of your audiences requires organisation of some group discussions with representatives of the group(s).

Your questions to the selected groups could include – among others:

• Identify the group (include: age, sex, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic profile) and where in your community they live;
• Where do they normally get their information from?
• Which channels and programme types do they prefer? Why?
• Which information sources do they trust?
• Where do they get their (public) health information from?
• How would they describe their health challenges, needs, and concerns?
• Do they have access to sufficient and good quality health information?
• If, where do they get it from?
• If not, what are they missing?