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How to present a survey report concerning the health of pregnant women and childrend to the audience.
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Hi Blessing,
Thanks for asking.  Your question is kind of general, and I am going to respond first with "It depends!"  Is your purpose to provide the information contained in the survey report merely to inform your community about the health of the women subjects, about the effectiveness of the local pregnancy care system, to promote media coverage of the report and the issue, or to recruit relevant providers and community officials for further study and program development?  Or is it a question about what media to use during your presentation?  Is the presentation about physical health status alone, or do you have data that correlates physical health status with "social indicators of health" such as housing, transportation, etc.
 
I want to encourage you to review portions of two chapters in our Toolbox.  First, take a look at Chapter 45, section 7 in the Table of Contents.  That section focuses upon promoting community awareness of an issue.  Chapter 38, Section 9 focuses upon the development of community-level indicators, so that the audience can see how your community compares to others with similar issues.  Beyond those two, if your goal is to help mobilize a community response, you might look at Chapters six and seven.
These days, media such as PowerPoint are used widely in presentations and can be very helpful in communicating with your audience.  However, having sat through many such presentations, I encourage you to put your key information points and data graphics on the PowerPoint slides (keep them focused and succinct) but develop really good speaker notes that amplify or clarify the information you want to present.  (Personal bias follows:)  Please do not just read each slide to your audience.  Deliver your lecture and supplement it with the slides.  Intersperse the data with photos and/or stories that give examples of what you have learned.  Highlight your conclusions and recommendations.  Invite questions throughout your presentation and encourage dialog - but keep it focused on the main points - discourage or defer responding to audience tangents until after the presentation has ended.
Hope this responds sufficiently to your question.  You picked an important topic!

Question Date: jeu, 08/23/2018