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Kudos To The CDC For Creative Health Messaging: The Zombie Project

May 26th, 2011 by Bryan Vartabedian, M.D. in Health Policy, Humor
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This is good.  I knew the CDC was socially tuned-in but this came as a surprise:  Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse .  It’s every American’s guide to dealing with a zombie attack.  You come thinking zombies but take away principles for emergency preparedness.  Well done, CDC.

The real take away for those of us looking under the hood: effective health messaging should be creative and fun.  While we’ll never be able to measure the true effectiveness of this approach in an emergency, expect the post’s massive traffic to convert important links on emergency preparedness.  Hopefully the CDC will release stats on the effectiveness of this campaign.

I’d like to write more, but I’m goin’ to make my kit.

*This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts*

For Halloween: “Just A Flesh Wound” Stickers

October 30th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, Humor, Medical Art
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To promote his new zombie book, “Rise Again,” author Ben Tripp is offering a printable sheet of flesh wounds that, to our relatively trained eyes, are reasonably accurate depictions of what undead flesh wounds would look like. You have to provide your own sticky sheets to print them on. (Note to medical students: Do not stick these on your anatomy cadavers.) Happy Halloween!

SOURCE: “Stickers for Quick Undeadliness: Assorted Zombie Wounds“

*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*