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Public Engagement in Malawi Through a Health-Talk Radio Programme ‘Umoyo Nkukambirana’: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation
Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 229-242
"Radio is an effective source of health information in many resource poor countries. In Malawi, 53% of households own radios however few radio programmes in Malawi focus on health issues in the context of medical research. An interactive health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’ was intro
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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.
How Has Media Programming Supported Polio Eradication?
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 11 pp.
"Since 2013, BBC Media Action has been working closely with Unicef to support polio eradication. Through mass media programming – radio magazine shows and drama, and radio and TV public service announcements (PSAs) – it has sought to break down barriers to immunising against polio and other chil
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El papel de los medios frente a la desnutrición infantil como fenómeno social contemporáneo
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
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WHO’s Media Guidelines in the Press and in Public Perception
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 33, issue 1 (2018), pp. 14-25
"This study based on a content analysis and a nationwide survey examines Taiwan’s suicide coverage and general public evaluations of the World Health Organization media guidelines, alongside the copycat effect. Key findings show the daily newspaper Apple Daily essentially failed to follow the guid
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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment
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
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Engaging youth in community action research: A visual methods approach to HIV and AIDS awareness
Whanake: the Pacific Journal of Community Development, volume 4, issue 2 (2018), pp. 48-66
"Young people are among the most affected and vulnerable groups in the HIV epidemic. Targeting young people in prevention strategies requires inclusive and participatory approaches. This paper discusses a film production project that involved youths in a remote rural community in the Highlands of Pa
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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.
"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global
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Disability Media Studies
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
Evaluation Approaches for Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2017), ix, 81 pp.
"The goal of this handbook is to provide guidance to practitioners and organizations interested in evaluating mental health prevention and early intervention (PEI) programs. In the course of developing an evaluation plan for a series of PEI programs implemented statewide by the California Mental Hea
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Improving Maternal and Child Health Through Media in South Sudan: Final Evaluation
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 51 pp.
"Following decades of civil war, South Sudan still lacks a functioning healthcare system and has some of the worst maternal and child health indicators in the world. To help address this, between 2012 and 2017 BBC Media Action produced and broadcast a range of national radio programmes seeking to in
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A Bigger Splash – Partnering for Impact: Lessons from BBC Media Action’s Work to Improve Maternal and Child Health
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 30 pp.
"Drawing on BBC Media Action’s work on maternal and child health with governmental and non-governmental partners in Bangladesh, India and Ethiopia, this paper discusses: the value of these partnerships for successful health communication; the part played by media and communication in wider health
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Communication for Development and Social Change: Influencing Social Norms for an Inclusive Society in Montenegro
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 130-147
"UNICEF and the Government of Montenegro implemented a communication strategy "It's about ability" to challenge the existing, exclusionary practices and promote new, inclusive social norms for children with disability. Drawing on communication for development principles and social norms theory, a 20
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Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health Through Words and Visuals
London: Routledge (2017), x, 170 pp.
"Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then
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Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies: A WHO Guideline for Emergency Risk Communication (ERC) Policy and Practice
World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), xi, 57 pp.
"The recommendations in these guidelines provide overarching, evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practised in an emergency. The recommendations also guide countries on building capacity for communicating risk during health emergencies. Specific step-by-step instructions are
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Una voz que cambia vidas: Campañas de responsabilidad social en la radio. El caso RPP Noticias
Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2017), 380 pp.
"Este libro relata la gestión de la campaña de lucha contra la desnutrición infantil realizada por el Grupo RPP y difundida de forma ininterrumpida a traves de su principal emisora radial, desde el 2006 hasta el 2010. Dicha experiencia representó una apuesta empresarial donde se evidenció que l
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Storytelling and Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from the Grey Literature
Palgrave Communications, volume 3, issue 17093 (2017), 10 pp.
"The article outlines some of the ways in which an understanding of policymaker psychology and factors such as group dynamics and political context are reflected in the grey literature, and the implications of this for understanding the role of storytelling in political advocacy. It highlights pract
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