Health Awareness Campaigns and Their Role in Promoting Awareness of Rare Diseases | ||
| Journal of Design Sciences and Applied Arts | ||
| Article 4, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 70-83 PDF (1.59 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jdsaa.2023.173961.1236 | ||
| Author | ||
| Alla Mohammed El- Sayed Abdo* | ||
| faculty of applied arts Damietta university | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Over recent years, rare diseases affected people's lives, families, and jobs, and their cumulative effects on systems of health and social care have gained more attention. The lack of health awareness of rare diseases and the scarcity of the expertise is translated into delayed diagnosis and difficult access to appropriate health care. In the past few decades, increased awareness of rare diseases has led to improvements in diagnosis, treatment which led to change in thinking and in behavior towards rare diseases. The research is trying to provide a response to the question of What is the role that awareness campaigns play in raising awareness of rare diseases and do they provide the necessary information to the target group , and aims to clarify the importance of using awareness campaigns as an effective tool that can and raise awareness of rare disease nature, characteristics, and how to diagnose it, so The research supposes that understanding the role played by health awareness campaigns helps to speed up the diagnosis of the rare diseases. In addition, the researcher followed both descriptive and the applied approach by presenting three rare disease awareness posters and a questionnaire as an attempt to develop the effectiveness of awareness campaigns To Improve and speed up diagnosis and care of rare diseases and found out that the increased knowledge and understanding caused by awareness campaigns rare diseases give society the reasons and how rare diseases occur and change the way we view and how to treat disease. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| rare disease; orphan diseases; Awareness campaigns; health awareness; Dependency theory | ||
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