Daughtry: What about now?

Well its not surprise that I cried during this video. I am sure many of your know about Daughtry he was on American Idol and got kicked off towards the end. Well he went on to do pretty good for himself. I really enjoy his music. What in the world does he have to do with mental health. I recently saw their music video for their song “What about now?” They choose to talk about a range of Public Health issuse and all the people throughout the world that are doing things to help those in need world wide. Among the people featured is the guy from Charity Water, who Emily showed us in class. In a pervious post I talked about the relationship between poverty and mental illness. I don’t have to say much it is logical that there is a relationship between the two. However, I can’t say enough about it. I thought this video was appropriate in that it speaks about the issuse of poverty in the world in a way that is catchy and reaches a lot of people in a short amount of time. Also it encourages the viewer to get up and do something to help his/her neighbors. In class we speak about using social media to get the message through to people all the time. I wish we, in public health, would get in touch with Hollywood more often to get out agenda out there. And in fact we are! The CDC does a great job of getting in touch with Hollywood to get the right information out to the public. What if more celebrities would do this kind of promotion. Kids would be receiving good information and receiving encouragement to act. Mental health and other public health issuse are fun, interesting and rewarding. Enjoy the video and if you would please comment! 🙂

Food for thought:

Is this an effective way to educate people and motivate them to do something about health issues?

What is something that you have seen done that is similar to this?