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Research on Media Coverage of Health in Uganda, July 2015 - June 2017

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2018), x, 65 pp.

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A Guide for the Media on Communicating in Public Health Emergencies

Genevieve Hutchinson, Jacqueline Dalton

London: BBC Media Action (2018), 30 pp.

"This manual provides tips for media practitioners on how to help audiences during health emergencies. It can be read in conjunction with BBC Media Action’s Lifeline Production Manual (available online) which provides more general guidance on how to communicate with people affected by humanitarian ... more

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Quid Pro Quo: How Donor-Funded Journalism Redefines Job Descriptions

Mia Malan

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 121-129

"Donor-funded journalism is a complex sphere, frequently characterised by balancing acts between the priorities of two vastly different environments. The health desk of one of South Africa’s legacy media outlets, the Mail & Guardian, owes its existence to philanthropy. Launched in 2013, the Bhekis ... more

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Social Media und psychische Gesundheit: Am Beispiel der Identitätskonstruktion auf Instagram

Viera Pirker

Communicatio Socialis, volume 51, issue 4 (2018), pp. 467-480

"Jugendliche heute kennen kaum ein Leben ohne Social Media-Plattformen am Smartphone. Untersuchungen legen Zusammenhänge zwischen dieser Mediennutzung und psychischer Gesundheit in der Adoleszenz nahe. Es zeichnen sich positive und negative Effekte ab. Erkenntnisse aus US-amerikanischen und britisc ... more

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Leveraging the Potential of Mobile for Persons with Disabilities: Scoping Study

London: GSMA (2018), 40 pp.

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Programa sobre el uso seguro y responsable de las TIC para adolescentes con discapacidad intelectual

Madrid: Fundación Telefónica (2018), 29 pp.

"El presente Programa ha sido creado por Voluntarios Telefónica de la mano de la Unidad de Atención a Víctimas con Discapacidad Intelectual (UAVDI) de la Fundación A LA PAR. Con este Programa se pretende solventar la brecha digital que existe en los adolescentes con discapacidad intelectual (ACD ... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC);World Health Organization (WHO);UNICEF (2018), 46 pp.

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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker

London: GSMA;Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.

"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more

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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

Dan O'Hair, Heather Chapman, Megan Sizemore (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2018), xxii, 351 pp.

"Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events-disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters-contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities f ... more

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Working with the Media in Pursuit of Health for All

Future Health Systems (2018), 4 pp.

"Working with the media can be part of an effective strategy for influencing actors and debates in ways that can help to foster positive change – from awareness raising, visibility or recognition, to changes in attitudes and behaviours that lead to policy commitment and action. At the same time, i ... more

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Accounting for Youth Audiences’ Resistances to HIV and AIDS Messages in the Television Drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, volume 15, issue 1 (2018), pp. 20-30

"Using cultural studies as its conceptual framework and reception analysis as its methodology, this study investigated and accounted for the oppositional readings that subaltern black South African youths negotiate from Tsha Tsha, an E-E television drama on HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Results from ... more

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NGOs and Health Reporting in Tanzania

Ammina Kothari

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 42-60

"This study examines the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in shaping health reporting in Tanzania. Drawing on in-depth interviews with representatives from NGOs cited in HIV/AIDS-related stories published in the Tanzanian newspapers, the Daily News and The Guardian, the analysis focuses ... more

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El papel de los medios frente a la desnutrición infantil como fenómeno social contemporáneo

Andrés Felipe Guevara Ariza, Brayan Mateo Falcón Valencia, Daniela Mantilla Moreno, Daniel Felipe Valencia Sarmiento, Johan Sebastián Trujillo Muñoz

Bucaramanga: Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Thesis (2018), 464 pp.

"El proyecto nace a partir de la desnutrición infantil que se evidencian en poblaciones vulnerables de Colombia, tomando como referente a Bucaramanga para la realización de este con el objetivo de investigar cómo los medios de comunicación informan dicha problemática. En el trabajo de campo se ... more

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How to write and talk about infant and young child feeding in emergencies

Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN);IFE Core Group;USAID (2018), 3 pp.

"The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for anyone involved in humanitarian assistance who produces communications on behalf of an organisation (e.g. press releases, social media, fund raising appeals) or engages with the media (e.g. interviews). It aims to support communications expert ... more

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Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity

Tracy R. Worrell

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2018), xv, 125 pp.

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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu

Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.

"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more

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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.

BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.

"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie ... more

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Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
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M. Fábregas, A. Tafur, A. Guillén, L. Bolaños, J. L. Méndez, P. Fernández de Sevilla

Madrid: Confederación Salud Mental España (2018), 57 pp.

"Esta guía de estilo [que] tiene como objetivo ofrecer a periodistas datos y claves sobre la manera más adecuada para informar acerca de temas o aspectos relacionados con la salud mental. Con el fin de que los y las profesionales de la comunicación puedan generar información veraz, contrastada y ... more

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Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries

Abiodun Salawu, Toyosi Olugbenga, Samson Owolabi

IGI Global (2018), 339 pp.

"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary nations and the media’s responsibility to inform citizens of government and non-government activities. High ... more

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WhatsApp and Local Media (Grand Nord) – 9-18 September 2018: Reluctance, Refusal, Resistance and the Politicisation of the Ebola Response

UNICEF (2018), 3 pp.

Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan Key Guidance

Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
Key Guidance