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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?
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
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Evidence Supporting a Promotora-Delivered Entertainment Education Intervention for Improving Mothers' Dietary Intake: The 'Entre Familia: Reflejos De Salud' Study
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
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis
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
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Arts and Media Transforming the Response to HIV/AIDS: Strategy Note and Implementation Guide
New York: UNDP (2015), 48 pp.
Effective Communications: Participant Handbook for WHO Staff
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2015), 93 pp.
Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit
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
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Guía de comunicación para equipos de salud
Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Salud, 2nd ed. (2015), 48 pp.
Comunicación y salud en América Latina: Un campo en permanente movimiento
In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación
Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 257-296
Communication and Social Mobilization in Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination Campaigns: 10 Points from Field Experience
World Health Organization (WHO) (2015), viii, 31 pp.
"The main objective of this document is to provide evidence-based guidance on conducting practical social mobilization and communication for a yellow fever vaccination campaign, either preventive or reactive. Information is also given on the monitoring and evaluation of communication and social mobi
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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418
"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi
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National Communication Strategy for Malaria Control in Uganda
Kampala: Ministry of Health (2015), 40 pp.
"This Uganda national communication strategy for malaria prevention and control has been developed to facilitate the implementation of the Uganda Malaria Reduction Strategy (UMRS) 2014-2020. The strategy will offer a framework where every stakeholder shall take recommended actions to fund, prevent,
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Epidemiología para periodistas y comunicadores
Barcelona: Fundación Antonio Esteve; Asociación Española de Comuncación Científica (AECC) (2015), x, 94 pp.
"[...] los textos de las ocho ponencias ofrecen una introducción a la epidemiología con abundantes explicaciones y referencias de utilidad para los informadores en su trabajo cotidiano. El Cuaderno recoge ta mbién la crónica del debate que tuvo lugar entre periodistas y epidemiólogos, una bibli
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Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), xix, 271 pp.
"Entertainment-education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa is a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars in entertainment-education, including writers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States. Chapters cover a wide range of application and strategi
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Covering Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases: A Guide to Better Journalism. Lessons Learned from Global Coverage of the Ebola Virus Crisis
African Media Initiative (AMI) (2015), 23 pp.
"For journalists, coverage of the Ebola epidemic offers vital lessons that could help the media industry deliver a more public-interest oriented service geared towards combating the spread the disease. It is these lessons that have helped shape the following guidelines. The guidelines have been glea
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Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education
In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa
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
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Radio Broadcasting in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Can This be the Magic Bullet?
International Social Work, volume 58, issue 2 (2015), pp. 223-237
"In this study, we assessed the relevance and effectiveness of radio broadcasting as a strategy that facilitates the adoption and use of safer sexual practices among students at a South African university. Based on ethnographic data, the article highlights that the essential and critical contributio
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Evaluating Health Communication Interventions
In: Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 352-367
Understanding the Role of mHealth and Other Media Interventions for Behavior Change to Enhance Child Survival and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence Review
Journal of Health Communication, volume 19, issue suppl. 1 (2014), pp. 164-189
"This article summarizes evidence for technological advances associated with population-level behavior changes necessary to advance child survival and healthy development in children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries. After a rigorous evidence selection process, the authors as
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Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), 383 pp.
