The nurse educator has just discussed education of aggregates using mass media with targeting health messages. Which statement by the nursing student would demonstrate the student's ability to analyze and apply the information?

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To effectively deliver a health promotion and disease prevention message, the message must reach the target (at-risk) population. This requires correct identification of the characteristics of the target audience in terms of educational level, salience of the issue, involvement of the target audience with the issue, and access of the target audience to the media channels used. Cultural issues affect people's interpretation of messages and must be considered in the presentation of a disease prevention message to ethnic and racial minority groups. Television may not be the most important venue of mass media to educate the aggregate. Pamphlets may not be the best way to educate the aggregate, and the reading level of any literature must be specific for the target audience. Cultural issues affect people's interpretation of messages and must be considered in the presentation of a disease prevention message to ethnic and racial minority groups.

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