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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more

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Informe sobre el uso de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) en la educación para personas con discapacidad

Pilar Samaniego, Sanna-Mari Laitamo, Estela Valerio, Cristina Francisco

Quito: UNESCO;Trust for the Americas (2012), 78 pp.

"Significant progress has been made in regional agreements, providing a suitable frame of reference for a social approach to the care model. Although adjustments are required to harmonize domestic norms with international referents, much remains to be done for educational norms in the regions to ado ... more

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A Rapid Evidence Review of Interventions for Improving Health Literacy

Maureen D’Eath, Margaret M Barry, Jane Sixsmith

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 22 pp.

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Comparing Health Communication

John C. Pollock, Douglas Storey

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 161-182

"This review of available scholarship in international health communication reveals a curious disconnect between an abundance of material available in selected nations and regions (e.g., Australia, southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States), on the one hand, and relatively little atten ... more

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Information Communication Technologies for Gender and Development in Africa: The Case for Radio and Technological Blending

Christobel Asiedu

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 3 (2012), pp. 240-257

"The information communication technologies for development literature (ICT4D) has identified information communication technologies (ICTs) as a significant tool for economic and social development of least developed countries. The discourse has marginalized radio and promoted ICTs. However, there a ... more

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Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice

Srinivas R. Melkote (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), vi, 266 pp.

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Sistematización: Experiencias de educación a distancia por radio

Martha Isabel Pereira López, Rocío Gonzales Flores, Roxana Reynaga Padilla, Gustavo Ramos Espejo

Sucre: Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) (2012), 81 pp.

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Evidence Review: Social Marketing for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease

Laura MacDonald, Georgina Cairns, Kathryn Angus, Martine Stead

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 20 pp.

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Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive – and How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help

Imogen Wall, Lisa Robinson

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 15 pp.

"In 2008, a BBC World Service Trust policy briefing argued that people affected by earthquakes, floods or other emergencies often lacked the information they needed to survive and that this only added to their stress and anxiety. Left in the Dark: the unmet need for information in humanitarian emerg ... more

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Mapping with Mobiles: Lessons Learnt from the Use of Smartphones for Fast Humanitarian Surveys in Zimbabwe

Harare; Copenhagen: Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC);International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 10 pp.

"SMS services have become a very efficient tool to warn people of health threats such as epidemics or water pollution, but smartphones can also be utilised to stream information in the opposite direction when they are used as tools for snap surveys. In both emergency settings and well-planned nation ... more

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Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
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Charles Abraham, Marieke Kools (eds.)

London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2012), xv, 175 pp.

"[This] is a practical guide to producing effective written materials. The book presents easy-to-understand, evidence-based guidance on providing information, presenting persuasive messages and promoting behaviour change. Topics include: message framing; use of fear appeals; tailoring messages; usin ... more

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Reality Must Improve: The Perversity of Expertise and the Belatedness of Indian Development Television

William Mazzarella

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 215-241

"This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations. As apparently irreconcilable ideologies of television, the statist and consumerist models represent two ways of imagining the relatio ... more

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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Adré Salem Szklo et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 899-914

"To encourage smoking cessation, persuasive messages can be used to raise smokers' risk perception. This article discusses challenges and solutions in designing a study to evaluate the effect of two different communication strategies ("gains from quitting" vs. "losses from continuing smoking") in en ... more

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Chad and the Darfur Refugee Crisis: Internews Humanitarian Information Service's Program in Chad 2005-2012

Celeste Hicks, Meredith Kohut

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 56 pp.

"Starting in 2005, Internews built three humanitarian radio stations in Eastern Chad to help those fleeing the violence in Darfur to receive the critical news and information they needed to survive. Seven years after the first station went on air, Internews has left eastern Chad as funding to intern ... more

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Forum Theatre on the Air: Towards a Model of Participatory Radio Drama for Development on Community Radio

Mary Traynor

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 10, issue 2 (2012), pp. 173-187

"This article proposes an enhanced model of radio drama for development, which places forum theatre on the community radio platform. The model responds to the key development priorities of democratic, multi-directional communication, participation and social advocacy. It utilizes the mass disseminat ... more

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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)

Auckland Park: Jacana Media;University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.

"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more

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Nepalma Bikas Sancharbare Sandharbhasuchi = Bibliography of Development Communication in Nepal

Harsha Man Maharjan

[author] (2012), 26 pp.

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Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social: Interrelaciones entre comunicación, movimientos ciudadanos y medios
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José Miguel Pereira, Amparo Cadavid (eds.)

Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana;Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto);UNESCO (2011), 522 pp.

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REDD+ Politics in the Media. A Case Study from Cameroon

Djiegni Flicien Kengoum

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 26 pp.

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Radio Madang: Tuned in for Development?

Anisah Issimel

In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Michael McManus; Patrick Matbob (eds.)

Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 147-156

"The findings of this research have indicated that Radio Madang [the public service broadcaster in Madang province] is an appropriate medium for disseminating information and messages on development issues to people in rural areas of Madang province. With an audience of about 200,000 throughout the ... more

Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide Key Guidance

Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social: Interrelaciones entre comunicación, movimientos ciudadanos y medios Top Insights

Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
Key Guidance

Comunicación, desarrollo y cambio social: Interrelaciones entre comunicación, movimientos ciudadanos y medios
Top Insights