Heart failure is now occurring in younger people and it is vital to make them cautious and have a healthy lifestyle to prevent the disease. It is necessary to note that heart failure is often caused by a variety of other diseases and people are often unaware of the high risk of development of this health condition (The Harvard School of Public Health, 2010). According to Huff (2011), 80% of patients involved in the research conducted recently have poor health literacy. Notably, heart failure is often a result of an unhealthy lifestyle. In other words, it is preventable in the majority of cases if a person has a healthy lifestyle.
The present leaflet is aimed at the adult population (between 30 and 50) who may know about (or be unaware of) heart failure (see Appendix 1). The purpose of the leaflet is to draw people’s attention to the problem and encourage them to seek more information (on the Internet, asking their doctors, and so on). The present population needs specific attention as these people are in the risk group of developing the disease. It has been acknowledged that people are now trying to have healthy lifestyles though some ignore this necessity. Such leaflet may encourage people to change their minds and be more responsible.
It is necessary to note that the leaflet contains some data and images. To make a leaflet eye-catching, it is common to use images (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). A graph with the rate of people with a certain disease is utilized to make the viewer see the degree of danger. Admittedly, some data in the text may be missed as people often skim leaflets, but the same data in a graph tends to draw people’s attention.
The leaflet includes highlighted text to help the view follow it easily. Hence, the most valuable information can be identified easily. Finally, the leaflet includes two helpful links to websites containing a lot of information on the disease and ways to prevent it. Therefore, the leaflet reaches its goals as people have some links to start their research on the matter.
Furthermore, plain language was employed to address the target audience (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Even though the audience is the adult population, these people are not health care professionals in the vast majority of cases. Therefore, the leaflet does not contain specific terms, and the diseases mentioned in it are commonly known. It is also noteworthy that a significant part of the adult population speaks English as the second language (English literacy may be quite low) and complicated words and structures could be misunderstood.