Flat Tire: Non-Communicable Diseases

When you drive down the interstate, you see large advertisements looming over the highway. Those advertisements are billboards. For this assignment, pretend that you have been hired as an advertising designer to create an informational billboard about healthy lifestyle choices to prevent non-communicable diseases.

Your billboard design should use graphics and text to convey your message. Remember, be sure to really think about how the graphics can help express your message, as well as the text. Travelers driving down the interstate do not have very long to read a billboard. Make your graphics and concise wording work for you.

Select one of the diseases that you learned about in this topic and include the following on your billboard:

• At least one risk factor for the disease that you chose.
• At least two ways to prevent the non-communicable disease.
• At least one link to find credible information on the disease that you chose.

Make sure your billboard is effective and appropriate at raising awareness of a non-communicable disease and how to prevent it. Before you begin, access the Non-Communicable Disease Billboard Checklist to make sure that you include all of the items required for full credit. You may need to conduct research for statistics or other information to include in your note, and you will need to properly cite any external resources that you use in a Works Cited document. If you need assistance, visit the Developmental Module for information on citing any resources that you used.

Once you have completed your billboard design, submit your work to the dropbox.