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Radio as a Tool of Health Education: What Makes for an Effective HIV/AIDS Radio Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Kaitlin Schroeder

Intersect, volume 9, issue 3 (2016), pp. 1-14

"Public health interventions often take the form of media campaigns, which utilize television, radio, and print advertisements to spread awareness and inform the population of risk factors, prevention methods, and treatment options. This paper will focus on HIV/AIDS radio programs in Malawi, Zambia, ... more

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Advocacy Campaign for the Rights of People with Disabilities: A Participatory Action Research Within a Community-Based Rehabilitation Project in Maharashtra, India

Atul Jaiswal, Shikha Gupta

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, volume 27, issue 4 (2016), pp. 76-92

"This paper aimed to demonstrate how participatory action research (PAR) within a Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) project facilitated community participation to advocate for the rights of people with visual impairment. An advocacy campaign, led by the local people with and without disabilities, ... more

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Let’s Talk About Hesitancy: Enhancing Confidence in Vaccination and Uptake. Practical Guide for Public Health Programme Managers and Communicators

Franklin Apfel, Sabrina Ceconi et al.

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2016), iv, 22 pp.

"This guide provides practical evidence-based and peer-reviewed advice for public health programme managers (PHPMs) and communicators involved with immunisation services. It identifies ways to enhance people’s confidence in vaccination and addresses common issues which underlie vaccination hesitan ... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement for Zika Virus Prevention and Control: A Guidance and Resource Package for Country Offices for Coordination, Planning, Key Messages and Actions

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); World Health Organization (WHO); UNICEF (2016), 17 pp.

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Hotline Development Support

International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE) (2016), 15 pp.

"This online guide is designed to: inform a wide range of organisations about Internet hotlines and their essential role in forming a comprehensive national response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse [...]; advise organisations that are considering or are already planning to set up an In ... more

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Stratégie nationale de communication pour le changement social et comportemental pour la promotion de la nutrition au Bénin et son plan opérationnel 2017-2021

Aloys Hakizimana

Cotonou: Conseil National de l'Alimentation et de la Nutrition (CAN) (2016), 120 pp.

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Social Media and Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review

Jo Robinson, Georgina Cox, Eleanor Bailey, Sarah Hetrick, Maria Rodrigues, Steve Fisher, Helen Herrman

Early Intervention in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 2 (2016), pp. 103-121

"Social media platforms are commonly used for the expression of suicidal thoughts and feelings, particularly by young people. Despite this, little is known about the ways in which social media can be used for suicide prevention. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review to identify cu ... more

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Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles

Katie Ellis

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 131 pp.

"This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities’ self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social position of people with di ... more

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Soul Buddyz Club Impact Evaluation: An Evaluation of Soul Buddyz Clubs

FPD; G:ENESIS; USAID (2016), 74 slides

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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out

BBC Media Action (2016)

"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti ... more

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Social Media in der gesundheitlichen Aufklärung: Ergebisse aus einem Pilotprojekt der BZgA in den Themenfeldern Familienplanung und Sexualaufklärung

Thomas Quast, Markus Gabriel, Jörg Hoewner, Marc Jelitto

Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2015), 156 pp.

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Media Guidelines for Reporting on Accessible Elections

General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA) (2015), 55 pp.

"For the last couple of years, there were more reporting on disability in the media but most of them only reporting and portraying the ‘uniqueness’ of disability. In the election news reporting, media only portray the Persons with Disabilities on the voting process but the news still did not hav ... more

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Talk radio as the soundtrack of our lives: Participatory HIV/AIDS communication, public self-expression and Positive Talk

Mariekie Burger

Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/Aids, volume 12, issue 1 (2015), pp. 66-75

"Despite the many HIV/AIDS communication initiatives, combined with support and infrastructural support in South Africa, risky behaviour associated with the spread of the epidemic is increasing amongst many groups. This calls for a re-evaluation of endeavours aimed at curbing the spread of the epide ... mic. This article is only concerned with the communicational aspects of the epidemic, but does not negate the interaction of these with other measures taken to address the epidemic. As is the case with most health communication initiatives, HIV/AIDS communication initiatives have evolved to favour the participatory approach above one-directional transmission of information to the public. The participatory approach rests on the assumption that an HIV/AIDS communication initiative stands the best chance of resulting in behaviour change if members of the target community participate in the communication initiative. The assumption is that as many people as possible should be involved in the maximum number of phases of the communicative initiative (such as initial research, planning, implementation and evaluation of the project). Some research has recently started to explore new forms of community participation, including inviting community participation through, for example, internet-based platforms such as social media, and mobile phone platforms such as WhatsApp and BBM. However, the reality broadcast genre – more specifically, talk radio – has been neglected, as only a few research investigations focused on talk radio and most of these are not exclusively about HIV/AIDScommunication but focus on other health topics. From a participatory communication perspective, two sets of critique against the existing HIV/AIDS communication projects hold water: firstly, they do not make the maximum use of participatory communication principles and, secondly, they are externally initiated projects and emanate from outside the target community. To address both of these concerns, this article explores a wider range of participatory principles and the potential workings of these in an internally initiated communication initiative aimed at addressing the epidemic. More specifically, this article investigates ways in which radio listeners experience the reality broadcast genre – the talk radio show, Positive Talk – as participatory communication. Positive Talk is not an externally initiated project, as it is not part of a pre-planned, goal-oriented project that is owned and controlled outside the target community. In contrast, it has been initiated by Criselda Kananda, an individual not linked to any of the existing initiatives outside the community. She started the show to earn a living. She became a well-known person, is fairly knowledgeable in the field and was granted this opportunity as she is HIV-positive. In order to investigate how radio listeners use the show to engage in HIV/AIDS communication, 20 in-depth interviews were held with avid listeners of the show. The respondents indicated that they appreciate ordinary people phoning in. When expressing their opinions about the show, they found Kananda’s life story credible, believed her public and private life to be congruent, valued Kananda’s personality and respectful manner and could identify with the views expressed. In the article, it is argued that these ideas are largely in line with the principles of participatory communication tied to democracy, the participatory turn, the ordinary, validation of identity and respectful dialogue. Although the findings of this qualitative study cannot be generalised to the whole listening population of the show, they indicate that it is worth investigating the value of communication initiatives that emerge spontaneously from communities (instead of those strategically engineered from outside the general population) as a future direction of HIV/AIDS communication in the country." (Abstract) more

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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405

"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more

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Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with Albinism in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco

Disability & Society, volume 30, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1143-1157

"This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowle ... more

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Evidence Supporting a Promotora-Delivered Entertainment Education Intervention for Improving Mothers' Dietary Intake: The 'Entre Familia: Reflejos De Salud' Study

Guadalupe X. Ayala et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-176

"Entertainment education and the promotora model are 2 evidence-based health communication strategies. This study examined their combined effect on promoting healthy eating among mothers in a family-based intervention. Participants were 361 Mexican-origin families living in Imperial County, Californ ... more

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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.

Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100

"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more

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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit

Agnes Becker, S. Usmani, G. Ryan, M. De Silva

London: Mental Health Innovation Network; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2015), 27 pp.

"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This to ... more

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Guía de comunicación para equipos de salud

Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Salud, 2nd ed. (2015), 48 pp.

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Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education

Eliza M. Govender, Sertanya Reddy

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 243-261

"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr ... more