Health Assignment on Effectiveness of Web-based Resource
Added on 2020-03-16
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Health StudentQuestion – 1 In contemporary society, food is something more than just a source of getting energy, nutrition and body supplements rather it is a source to get a happy and healthythat is initiated from childhood itself (Osborne, 2012). “Change 4 life” is an NHS web-based resource describing this importance of food in the life of children. This study evaluates the effectiveness of this web-based resource as per its subject, target audience and presentation. To bring a change in the life of children the most concerned person’s are their parents (Simonsen & Robertson, 2012). Therefore, the target audience of this website dealing with children’s food facts, activities, recipes, and weight are parents and guardians. The web-based resource is a huge hub of knowledge for parents and guardians about what children should eat and not eat. This website contains information regarding the strategies that parents should adopt from initial childhood for the benefit of their children. Properly maintained by NHS the website contains information established in a professional manner surely by professionals because the information provided is not a regular piece of knowledge rather it holds professional ideas and concepts. The website consists a very small bit of information that can help parents to understand the food their children’s are consuming in this small age. This web-based resource aims to let parents be aware of nutrition information, tips, health food, exercise choices, nutrition facts, and tools. With the aim of bringing control over the unhealthy eating habits developed in society, the website provides every bit of information (recipes, activities, facts) that can benefit the health of children in every possible manner. Basically website functions to promote healthier eating habits and bringing change in an unhealthy life of children. Being a good source of information for today’s smart parents, this website holds very quick, witty and smart tips that parents can adapt to satisfy the taste buds as well as nutrition needs of their children. The colors and patterns used in the websiteto describe information are bright, smart and attractive. Along with attractive colors and patterns, the information is easily detectable with no confusing summaries and stories. The audience can directly catch the food facts, recipes, activities and weight detecting tools from the very first tabs present on the front page of the website. The pictures used are very clear and simple to easily understand the information it wants 2
Health Studentto describe. The pictures of cartoons and comics are used to attract children towards website. Further, data is also very organised and distributed as per different age groups of children. There is a huge range of healthy recipes that parents can very easily adopt as regular food for their children. The written language used in web source is very simple with approachable communication pattern and understandable grammar. Simple English that can directly connect with the target audience (parents and guardians) is used as a mode of communication in this web-based resource. Lastly, this web-based resource is a simple and decent piece of information to bring a change in unhealthy eating lifestyle of children to bring up a healthy future generation. The target audience is directly referred by the website as per its visual features, patterns, information data and written language. 3
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