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Why media freedom matters: Evidence for the value of media freedom to health, the economy, democracy, peace and the environment

Dieter Zinnbauer

Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) (2024), 33 pp.

"[...] Why and how does media freedom matter against the backdrop of these political, technological and economic upheavals? How has the role of free media evolved and what are we learning about its impact? The following scan of the empirical literature seeks to make a contribution to answering these ... more

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Antimicrobial resistance: Toolkit for media engagement

Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla et al.

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO); FAO; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2024), vii, 40 pp.

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Popularização da política de saúde na era Vargas

Isabella Maasberg, Ricarda Musser, Gunther Kunze (eds.)

Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (2023), 119 pp.

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Demand of and Access to Health Messages Through Mass Media in the Rural Community of Eastern Ethiopia: A Mixed Method Study

Bushra Aliyi, Yadeta Dassie, Alemayehu Deressa et al.

Risk Management and Healthcare, issue 16 (2023), pp. 1859-1874

"Background: The demand for health-related information has increased dramatically in recent years. Media is crucial in reaching health messages to audiences, especially those who are distant and rural. Therefore, the study aimed to assess demands, access, and factors associated with access to health ... more

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Estrategias de comunicación en salud: Selección teórica-metodológica para vías de intervención en política pública

Janet García González

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2023), 170 pp.

"Estrategias de comunicación en salud revisa los aportes que puede realizar una investigación de carácter dialógico, orientada a la superación de las barreras metodológicas clásicas que dificultan la realización de un trabajo riguroso basado en la excelencia científica. En el campo de la in ... more

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Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints

Bruce Mutsvairo, Nnamdi T. Ekeanyanwu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xv, 272 pp.

"The book traces communication in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communication, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian flm industry (‘Nollywood’) and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic li ... more

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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication

Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp.

"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

Teresa L. Thompson, Nancy Grant Harrington (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2022), xviii, 611 pp.

"A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject's key research foundations and trends, authored the by discipline's leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updat ... more

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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2022), 283 pp.

"The chapters here explore the impact, especially of Covid-19, on the media while unpacking the complexities, intersections and dynamics surrounding technological, political and economic developments and trends. Similarly, media discourses on journalism practice, audience narratives and news discour ... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Approaches During the Monkeypox Outbreak in Europe, 2022

Ben Duncan, Cristiana Salvi

World Health Organization (WHO) (2022), 11 pp.

"This document is intended for health authorities designing RCCE interventions in the context of the current monkeypox outbreak in Europe. It supplements the ‘Interim advice on Risk Communication and Community Engagement during the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, 2022’ jointly published by ECDC an ... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement: A Compendium of Case Studies in Times of COVID-19

Copenhagen: World Health Organization (WHO) (2022), ix, 104 pp.

"This collection of case studies on risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) from 18 different country/ area level public health partners in the WHO European Region provides evidence of numerous results achieved and lessons learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. RCCE has not tra ... more

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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.

"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more

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Health Communication and Disease in Africa: Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma

Bankole Falade, Mercy Murire (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 401 pp.

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Building Capacity in Communication for Development and Health Promotion

Rafael Obregón, Charlotte Lapsansky

In: Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 262-284

"Strengthening capacities in communication for development (C4D) and health communication is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other global health and development goals. This chapter presents case studies of recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations Children´s Fu ... more

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Improved Access to Public Health Information: More Effective Responses to COVID-19 in the MENA Region

Maharat Foundation (2021), 7 pp.

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Effective Risk Communication for Environment and Health: A Strategic Report on Recent Trends, Theories and Concepts

Bonn: Regional Office for Europe World Health Organization (WHO) (2021), vi, 59 pp.

"This report provides a strategic overview of effective risk communication for environment and health (EH) globally, with a focus on Europe. An overview is provided of the latest trends, theories and concepts of risk communication for EH, and key challenges and good practices are identified. The rep ... more

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Jakarta's Pandemic Information Ecosystem: A Study on Discrepancies Between Supply and Demand of Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Muhamad Heychael, Yovantra Arief et al.

Internews; Remotiv; USAID (2021), 130 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Winston Mano, Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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Guía de comunicacion en migración y salud: Implementación de una estrategia de información, educación y comunicación (IEC) en Colombia

Giannina Torres, Laura Isaza

Barranquilla: Universidad del Norte; Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) (2020), 30 pp.

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