Each chain will, of course, have its own parameters and costs. Joining in regional efforts will reduce the production cost of the master slide, which can then be reused in subsequent years with minimal costs incurred. No formal measures of audience size are available, however. The slides are planned for use in 2000, but at the time this report was being prepared, the particulars were not yet known. The slide can be modified and adapted for local, regional or national use.
Help is available for victims and their abusers.
In fact, this effort was based on the Baltimore County program and followed the same pattern. However, their production costs were lower, and the slide appeared on somewhat fewer screens. Public Health Advertising As noted above, no formal measures of audience size are available for this effort nor are there other measures of the program's impact. However, some evidence does suggest that such public service campaigns can at least raise awareness of the problem of intimate partner violence within the community. A number of other programs aimed at public health issues have also employed the mass media, with those using multiple educational tools tending to show the strongest impact.