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Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles
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
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Radio Wa is Talking Health
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 8 (2016), pp. 26
"Boosting health care in rural areas is a serious challenge. Involving local radio stations can help. In northern Uganda, a local FM station supports the fight against leprosy." (Introduction)
Radio as a Tool of Health Education: What Makes for an Effective HIV/AIDS Radio Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa?
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,
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Seeing is Believing: The SPRING/Digital Green Experience in Niger. Evidence from a Community Video Approach for Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors
Arlington, Va.: Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) (2016), 47 pp.
"Community video is a powerful approach to improving nutrition practices, even in areas beset by drought, conflict, and food shortages. When community members create and share videos that promote optimal nutrition and hygiene behaviors, friends and neighbors pay attention. This report details the po
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Polio Communication Global Guide: A How-To Manual for the Art and Science of Maximising Immunisation Rates Through Communication
Polio Global Eradication Initiative; UNICEF (2016), 33 pp.
"The Polio Communication Global Guide is a how-to manual for planning and building effective mass media and interpersonal communication strategies with the ultimate goal of eradicating polio. This document outlines UNICEF’s global approach to polio communication informed by data and on-the-ground
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r
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Let’s Talk About Hesitancy: Enhancing Confidence in Vaccination and Uptake. Practical Guide for Public Health Programme Managers and Communicators
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
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Albinism, Stigma, Subjectivity and Global-Local Discourses in Tanzania
Anthropology & Medicine, volume 23, issue 3 (2016), pp. 229-243
"Societal ideas and explanations of albinism at the local level in Tanzania are conceived in terms of family history, social relations, economic status, moral-religious positions, global-local flows of information and humanitarian actions on behalf of people with the congenital condition. This paper
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"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
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Behaviour Change Communication Guidelines
Key Guides
Thimphu, Bhutan: SNV Bhutan (2016), 26 pp.
Coming of Age: Communication’s Role in Powering Global Health
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 31 pp.
"Through a careful review of the evidence, this briefing offers a spirited case for why donors, practitioners and developing country governments need to pay more attention to the role of communication in tackling global health. The briefing finds that: Communication has been central to public health
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Public Health Media Advocacy Action Guide: Elements of a Media Advocacy Campaign
Global Health Advocacy Incubator (2016), 56 pp.
"Changing public health policy is one of the most effective ways to improve public health on a population-wide scale. As part of the advocacy campaign to move a public health issue onto the policy agenda and through the policy making process, a strategic and well executed media advocacy campaign is
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Online-Interventionen in Therapie und Beratung: Ein Praxisleitfaden
Weinheim: Beltz (2016), 188 pp.
"Für immer mehr Menschen ist es selbstverständlich, digital zu kommunizieren. Auch Klienten äußern häufiger den Wunsch, parallel zu einer Therapie oder nach ihrem Abschluss online beraten zu werden. Therapeuten entdecken zunehmend die Vorteile einer virtuellen Brücke zum Patienten. Agnes Juste
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Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 30 pp.
"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organisation’s response. The paper aims to contribute t
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Guinée info santé: Guide de référence pour les journalistes
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2016), 29 pp.
"Ce guide a pour objectif de fournir aux journalistes formés un support de communication adapté et efficace, leur permettant de diffuser des messages sur les problèmes prioritaires de santé en Guinée. Il doit également leur donner le même niveau d’information et des messages harmonisés sur
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Polio Communications Global Guide: Outbreak
Geneva: Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2016), 42 pp.
"Phase 1: Immediate Response Communication addresses the beginning of an outbreak and focuses on building, or rebuilding, caregivers’ critical awareness around key variables. Within the immediate response phase, communication should be straightforward and clear. The primary goals are to urgently r
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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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The Media: Improving How People with Mental Health Problems Are Represented in the Media. Summary of Impact and Learning.
Time to Change (2015), 5 pp.
"Our media advisory service was set up to provide advice and support on mental health storylines and documentaries. We inputted into 75 soap opera storylines, as well as mental health seasons for BBC 3 and Channel 4. We also developed an online resource for media professionals, and supported media o
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