HSC 300 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
difference, as respected and are learning and improving
✔✔how HR can build great teams - ✔✔- hire carefully
- teach cultures and values
- continually recruit internal talent
✔✔marketing - ✔✔includes promoting the business and profitability but also interaction
with stakeholders and addressing their role in business development
✔✔public relations - ✔✔involved in activities such as media relations and publicity,
publication design, internal communication, strategic planning, special events, health
education and promotion, fundraising, crisis management
✔✔corporate identity - ✔✔what makes an organization recognizable compared to
others
✔✔image - ✔✔an overall, but often fleeting, feeling about a company based on its
personality
✔✔reputation - ✔✔a long term assessment by a range of constituencies about the
character, conscience and credibility of an organization
✔✔media based campaigns - ✔✔- being interactive
- link messages to key services u want to promote
- be educational
- integrate a range of channels, not just the one media u use, or are comfortable with
- update people during crisis
- do not forget the worried well those who are not directly affected or impacted but are
still worried from exposure to crisis
- maintain relationships with followers
- develop a social media policy to abate pt privacy concerns, employee interactions
✔✔mass communication - ✔✔is the dissemination of messages from one person or
group to large numbers of people via media
✔✔direct to consumer advertisment - ✔✔encourage everyday people to consider and
ask about particular pharmaceutical drugs
✔✔sensationalism - ✔✔covering health issues that are more exciting or newsworthy
rather than everyday health information which would be more useful
, ✔✔media literacy - ✔✔is the awareness, skill and ability that allow a person to evaluate
media content in terms of what is realistic and useful
✔✔different channels used in mass communication - ✔✔- tv
- radio
- computers
- newspaper
- magazines
- billboards
- video games
✔✔direct to consumer advertisements disadvantages - ✔✔- drug companies now spend
more on advertisements rather than research and development
- drug prices have also risen more than 28% since 2005
- people are often dazzled by the promised results and the active healthy models in the
advertisements
- drug companies downplay the risks of the medication
- different populations are over and underrepresented in the advertisements, which
reinforces health disparities
✔✔media + nutrition - ✔✔many populations are at risk for serious chronic diseases,
partly due to these ads
✔✔media + youth - ✔✔- there is a consistent correlations between children's BMI and
their ability to recognize unhealthy brand and products
- children are exposed to nearly 5,500 tv food commercials per year and these
commercials tend to misrepresent good food
✔✔body image - ✔✔- pathologizing the human body making natural functions seem
weird and unnatural
- advertisers play on the idea that their ads make people feel bad about themselves so
they'll buy or use the product advertised
- images are photoshopped and are unrealistic and the health effects are very real
✔✔health + communication technology - ✔✔- high media use is also linked to sleep
deprivation by decreasing melatonin secretion in the brain
- teens in low income households are more likely to access the internet via their phones
- health messages communicated via mobile technology have the greatest chance of
reaching youth in need
✔✔tobacco limitations - ✔✔- the master settlement agreement bans tobaccos ads from
public transportation, tv movies
- tobacco ads are severely limited in malls, sport arena's arcades
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
difference, as respected and are learning and improving
✔✔how HR can build great teams - ✔✔- hire carefully
- teach cultures and values
- continually recruit internal talent
✔✔marketing - ✔✔includes promoting the business and profitability but also interaction
with stakeholders and addressing their role in business development
✔✔public relations - ✔✔involved in activities such as media relations and publicity,
publication design, internal communication, strategic planning, special events, health
education and promotion, fundraising, crisis management
✔✔corporate identity - ✔✔what makes an organization recognizable compared to
others
✔✔image - ✔✔an overall, but often fleeting, feeling about a company based on its
personality
✔✔reputation - ✔✔a long term assessment by a range of constituencies about the
character, conscience and credibility of an organization
✔✔media based campaigns - ✔✔- being interactive
- link messages to key services u want to promote
- be educational
- integrate a range of channels, not just the one media u use, or are comfortable with
- update people during crisis
- do not forget the worried well those who are not directly affected or impacted but are
still worried from exposure to crisis
- maintain relationships with followers
- develop a social media policy to abate pt privacy concerns, employee interactions
✔✔mass communication - ✔✔is the dissemination of messages from one person or
group to large numbers of people via media
✔✔direct to consumer advertisment - ✔✔encourage everyday people to consider and
ask about particular pharmaceutical drugs
✔✔sensationalism - ✔✔covering health issues that are more exciting or newsworthy
rather than everyday health information which would be more useful
, ✔✔media literacy - ✔✔is the awareness, skill and ability that allow a person to evaluate
media content in terms of what is realistic and useful
✔✔different channels used in mass communication - ✔✔- tv
- radio
- computers
- newspaper
- magazines
- billboards
- video games
✔✔direct to consumer advertisements disadvantages - ✔✔- drug companies now spend
more on advertisements rather than research and development
- drug prices have also risen more than 28% since 2005
- people are often dazzled by the promised results and the active healthy models in the
advertisements
- drug companies downplay the risks of the medication
- different populations are over and underrepresented in the advertisements, which
reinforces health disparities
✔✔media + nutrition - ✔✔many populations are at risk for serious chronic diseases,
partly due to these ads
✔✔media + youth - ✔✔- there is a consistent correlations between children's BMI and
their ability to recognize unhealthy brand and products
- children are exposed to nearly 5,500 tv food commercials per year and these
commercials tend to misrepresent good food
✔✔body image - ✔✔- pathologizing the human body making natural functions seem
weird and unnatural
- advertisers play on the idea that their ads make people feel bad about themselves so
they'll buy or use the product advertised
- images are photoshopped and are unrealistic and the health effects are very real
✔✔health + communication technology - ✔✔- high media use is also linked to sleep
deprivation by decreasing melatonin secretion in the brain
- teens in low income households are more likely to access the internet via their phones
- health messages communicated via mobile technology have the greatest chance of
reaching youth in need
✔✔tobacco limitations - ✔✔- the master settlement agreement bans tobaccos ads from
public transportation, tv movies
- tobacco ads are severely limited in malls, sport arena's arcades
