At Health Communications Consultants, Inc. we love a good infographic. Our expert graphic designer, document editor, and communication specialist consultants ensure we produce amazing communication tools, including infographics, to meet our client’s needs and vision.
Infographic – a collection of images, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of the topic. For sighted users, representing data as an infographic improves accessibility. It contains more concise pieces of information, illustrates complex concepts and large numbers in a simple way, and visually depicts relationships and comparisons between data sets and information.
One resource that I particularly like to reference for their infographic magic is The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation. They have infographics on several health topics, but we have frequently used their health equity series to learn and educate about the impact of socioeconomic inequities and systemic racism on health and how solution-based approaches are making a difference.
All NIHCM’s infographics, links to webinars and research insights on health equity are located here and are updated regularly:
https://nihcm.org/topics/health-equity/all
Some tips on how to use these resources:
- Include them in your community presentations, town hall meetings, or your media campaigns to improve accessibility (just ensure you reference your sources appropriately).
- Share the resources with community partners. Sharing resources is a strategy for local health departments to act as a convener to ensure health equity initiatives are community driven, to share a mutual understanding, and to develop creative strategies toward health equity.
- Use them to educate yourself or your staff on how to communicate information on health topics to influence behavioral modifications at the individual, family, and community levels.
Some examples of communication and infographic tools created by HCC, Inc.’s consultants are featured below in this blog post.
HCC, Inc. created this infographic to show the results of exploratory research we conducted in collaboration with NACCHO around Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI), Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) in Rural, Frontier, and Small Health Departments in August 2022. Learn more about this infographic and the project at NACCHO HAI webpage.
HCC, Inc. collaborated with NACCHO to conduct in-depth interviews with public health professionals in Rural, Frontier, and Small Health Departments to understand their Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI), Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) initiatives, engagement, workforce development, and capacity. Learn more about this infographic and the project at NACCHO HAI webpage.
HCC, Inc. created this infographic with NACCHO to educate the public health community about the US Department HHS MCH Emergency Planning Toolkit and how health departments can collaborate with their community and stakeholders to ensure MCH populations are considered in their EPR planning.
HCC, Inc. collaborates with the National Network of Public Health Institute in evaluating the public health workforce training, competencies, and capacity building processes. In one evaluation, we wanted to understand what motivated public health professionals to participate in our evaluations.
HCC, Inc. collaborates with the National Network of Public Health Institute to understand the essential skills needed for the public health workforce in infection prevention and control (IPC), healthcare associated infections (HAI), and antibiotic resistance (AR). We found that skills could be categorized into 3 groups: Essential Transferrable, Essential Performance Objectives, and Essential Values and Attitudes. The full report can be found on NNPHI’s website https://ipc.nnphi.org/