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Evaluation of Behavior Change Communication Programs: Guidance Note for German Development Cooperation
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Marianthi Vezertzi, Julia Lohmann

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), 85 pp.

"Behavior Change Communication (BCC) interventions have become an integral part of many HIV prevention programs. Monitoring and evaluation is expected to be included in the design of any BCC interventions from the beginning on. However, the know-how on how to demonstrate results and impacts of such ... more

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Reinforcement or Reactance? Examining the Effect of an Explicit Persuasive Appeal Following an Entertainment-Education Narrative

Emily Moyer-Gusé, Parul Jaion, Adrienne H. Chung

Journal of Communication, volume 62, issue 6 (2012), pp. 1010-1027

"Entertainment-education interventions frequently include an explicit persuasive appeal, such as an epilogue, at their conclusion. This may help to overcome potential limitations of narrative persuasion by highlighting and clarifying the underlying message. Despite this potential, an explicit persua ... more

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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study

Lu Cao, Wei Meng

In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings

Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)

Braga: Communication and Society Research Centre University of Minho (2012), pp. 229-238

"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe ... more

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Informe sobre el uso de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) en la educación para personas con discapacidad

Pilar Samaniego, Sanna-Mari Laitamo, Estela Valerio, Cristina Francisco

Quito: UNESCO; Trust for the Americas (2012), 78 pp.

"Significant progress has been made in regional agreements, providing a suitable frame of reference for a social approach to the care model. Although adjustments are required to harmonize domestic norms with international referents, much remains to be done for educational norms in the regions to ado ... more

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A Rapid Evidence Review of Interventions for Improving Health Literacy

Maureen D’Eath, Margaret M Barry, Jane Sixsmith

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 22 pp.

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Evidence Review: Social Marketing for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease

Laura MacDonald, Georgina Cairns, Kathryn Angus, Martine Stead

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 20 pp.

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Systematic Literature Review of the Evidence for Effective National Immunisation Schedule Promotional Communications

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 89 pp.

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Systematic literature review to examine the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions that use theories and models of behaviour change: Towards the prevention and control of communicable diseases

Ülla-Karin Nurm, Würz Andrea, Piotr Wysocki

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), 108 pp.

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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Adré Salem Szklo et al.

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 ... more

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Effects of the Gama Cuulu Radio Serial Drama on HIV-Related Behavior Change in Zambia

Joan Marie Kraft et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 929-945

"The Gama Cuulu radio serial drama is written and produced in Zambia's Southern Province. It promotes behavior change and service use to prevent HIV transmission. The authors evaluated the effects of Gama Cuulu on intermediate outcomes (e.g., perceived norms), as well as number of sexual partners, c ... more

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Media and Global Health: From Information to Action

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 12 pp.

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Tackling HIV and AIDS Stigmatization and Discrimination

Media Development, volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 1-23

"Mass and community media can unthinkingly reinforce stigmatisation and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Beyond the important question of language and image, there are those of care, respect, support, and human dignity. As one writer in this issue comments, "HIV and AIDS is no ... more

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Comunicación para la salud del pueblo: una revisión de conceptos básicos

Luis Ramiro Beltrán

La Paz: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) (2011), 64 pp.

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Guía práctica sobre producción de materiales accesibles para personas con discapacidad visual

Norma Toucedo, Alejandro Schinca

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 46 pp.

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Overcoming Barriers to TB Control: The Role of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM). Training Curriculum

USAID (2011), 98, 25, 40, 22 pp.

"Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) refers to a set of interventions that supports tuberculosis (TB) control goals and objectives at international, national, and local levels. These include advocating for sufficient resources, promoting healthy behaviors and attitudes, and engag ... more

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Acting on HIV: Using Drama to Create Possibilities for Change

Dennis A. Francis (ed.)

Rotterdam; Boston; Taipei: Sense Publishers (2011), xii, 153 pp.

"Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promo ... more

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Fifth International Entertainment-Education Conference for Health and Social Development: Focusing on Women and Children. Conference Report

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2011), 32 pp.

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Essentials of Public Health Communication

Claudia F. Parvanta, David E. Nelson, Sarah A. Parvanta, Richard N. Harner (eds.)

Sudbury, Mass. et al.: Jones & Bartlett Learning (2011), xxxi, 409 pp.

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Community Theatre and AIDS

Ola Johansson

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xii, 179 pp.

"Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comp ... more

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National Communication Strategy for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 2011-16

Kathmandu: National Health Education Information Communication Centre Ministry of Health and Population Government of Nepal (2011), 71 pp.

Evaluation of Behavior Change Communication Programs: Guidance Note for German Development Cooperation Key Guidance

Evaluation of Behavior Change Communication Programs: Guidance Note for German Development Cooperation
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