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Using Social Media for Health Behavior Change: Technical How-To Guide
Key Guidance
FHI 360 (2023), 50 pp.
"This comprehensive guide has four sections taking you through preparations, planning, developing, and implementing to monitoring and evaluating your campaign. We do not expect you to read this document in one sitting, but rather use it as you develop your social media campaign." (How to use this gu
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Message Testing in India for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: What Appeal and What Messenger Are Most Persuasive?
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 18, issue 6 (2022), 13 pp.
"Few studies have examined the relationships between the different aspects of vaccination communication and vaccine attitudes. We aimed to evaluate the influence of three unique messaging appeal framings of vaccination from two types of messengers on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in India. We surveyed
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Digital Media for Behavior Change: Review of an Emerging Field of Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 19, issue 9129 (2022), 14 pp.
"The purpose of the current paper is to provide an overview and describe methods in this emerging field, present use cases, describe a future agenda, and raise central questions to be addressed in future digital health research for behavior change. Digital media for behavior change employs three mai
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Social and Behaviour Change Strategy. Volume I: Policy & Strategic Approach
New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 127 pp.
"The Government of Madhya Pradesh is committed to ensure the overall development of all its residents, especially women and children. The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) works to sustainably improve health and nutrition outcomes for women of reproductive age and children below 6 yea
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Behavioral Science Tips for COVID-19 Communications
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU); Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics University of Pennsylvania; Ideas42.org (2020), 2 pp.
"Human behavior plays a central role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. Communication by government entities and other trusted sources about desirable or mandated behaviors during the pandemic is critical. As policymakers, funders, and program staff, it is our responsibility to ensure that commu
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Kommunikationskampagnen im Gesundheitsbereich: Grundlagen und Anwendungen
Key Guidance
Top Insights
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 3., völlig überarb. Aufl. (2020), 256 pp.
"Dieses Buch bietet eine systematische Einführung in die wichtigsten Theorien der Kommunikationswissenschaft und Gesundheitspsychologie sowie deren Anwendung in Kommunikationskampagnen. Basierend auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand wird aufgezeigt, welche Strategien für die gezielte Veränderung von
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NOhep Advocacy Toolkit
NOhep Movement (2019), 80 pp.
"To support national advocacy efforts, we’ve created a toolkit for patient organisations, NGOs and individuals working in the field of viral hepatitis. It will equip supporters with the information and knowledge to get their decision-makers to take this problem seriously and push them to act to me
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When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (2019), 55 pp.
"Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted a nationwid
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio
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
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Una voz que cambia vidas: Campañas de responsabilidad social en la radio. El caso RPP Noticias
Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad de Lima (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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Behaviour Change Communication Guidelines
Key Guidance
Thimphu, Bhutan: SNV Bhutan (2016), 26 pp.
The Impact of Behaviour Change Communication on the Use of Insecticide Treated Nets: A Secondary Analysis of Ten Post-Campaign Surveys from Nigeria
Malaria Journal, volume 15, issue 422 (2016), 16 pp.
"Mass distribution campaigns of insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention are usually accompanied by intensive behaviour change communication (BCC) to encourage hanging and use of nets. However, data on the effectiveness of these communication efforts are scarce. In preparation for the next ro
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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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Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mass Media Interventions for Child Survival in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Journal of Health Communication, volume 19, issue suppl. 1 (2014), pp. 190-215
"Through a systematic review of the literature, this article summarizes and evaluates evidence for the effectiveness of mass media interventions for child survival. To be included, studies had to describe a mass media intervention; address a child survival health topic; present quantitative data fro
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Behaviour Change Communication Targeting Four Health Behaviours in Developing Countries: A Review of Change Techniques
Social Science & Medicine, volume 75 (2012), pp. 612-621
"Behaviour change communication is vital for increasing the enactment of particular behaviours known to promote health and growth. The techniques used to change behaviour are important for determining how successful the intervention is. In order to integrate findings from different interventions, we
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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
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
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Working on Health Communication
Key Guidance
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2011), 186 pp.
"Working on Health Communication provides a practical guide to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns. The book follows the campaign design process step-by-step. It covers every stage from selecting theoretical models and identifying the message and target audience, right th
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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2010), 81 pp.
"The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholder
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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for Tuberculosis Control: A Handbook for Country Programmes
World Health Organization (WHO) (2007), 80 pp.
"This handbook is primarily intended for staff that plan, organize and supervise tuberculosis (TB) control activities at the national level. Because tackling TB requires commitment and work at all levels, this guide can also be used by TB control staff at the provincial, state, and regional levels;
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Spot on Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
Key Guidance
Washington, DC: Change Project USAID (2005), 157 pp.
"The Spot on Malaria guide focuses on malaria prevention and treatment messages and ways to tailor them to reach communities often missed by national malaria programmes. The guide shows how to adapt or localise materials from national malaria programmes and how to create original radio spots or adve
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