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Faith 'n' science
Internews; IMA World Health (2023), 14 pp.
"A majority of communities in sub–Saharan Africa subscribe to religion which is part of the people’s way of life. At the center of religion are religious leaders whom communities trust and consult on various issues beyond faith and religion. By partnering with these revered figures and building
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A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine, volume 41, issue 5 (2023), pp. 1018-1034
"We conducted a systematic review to identify and describe communications-based strategies used to prevent and ameliorate the effect of mis- and disinformation on people’s attitudes and behaviours surrounding vaccination (objective 1) and examined their effectiveness (objective 2) [...] Of 2000 id
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Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie
Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.
Using Social Media for Health Behavior Change: Technical How-To Guide
Key Guides
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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Disinformation exports: How foreign anti-vaccine narratives reached West African communities online
First Draft (2023)
"Pro-Russian disinformation networks and American anti-science websites are pushing anti-vaccine content that is reaching large West African Facebook Pages and Groups. These networks are spreading social media posts and articles that contain misleading messages about Covid-19 vaccines. These message
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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda
Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60
"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can
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Exploring the Contextual Factors of Religious Leader Participation in Health Communication: Evidence from a Qualitative Study in Sierra Leone
Journal of Religion and Health, volume 62 (2023), pp. 1695-1715
"As there are many and sometimes ambivalent intersections of health and religion, strategic collaborations with religious opinion leaders in health campaigns have been increasingly explored. Despite the known influence of distinct contextual factors within emergency and non-emergency settings, exist
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The effect of communication and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
European Parliament (2023), 78 pp.
"This study analyses how governments, public health experts and other professionals communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of these communication strategies. It investigates COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation practices, and how these practices were addressed in the Europea
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The Association of a Large-Scale Television Campaign with Exclusive Breastfeeding Prevalence in Vietnam
AJPH Research, volume 107, issue 2 (2023), pp. 312-318
"Objectives: To examine the association between exposure to breastfeeding television spots and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Methods: We performed face-to-face interviews with 11 722 mothers of infants younger than 6 months using 5 cross-sectional surveys 6 or more months apart between 2011 and 201
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Journalistic role conceptions and performance in the global south: A comparison between Egypt and the UAE during COVID-19
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 8 (2023), pp. 646-662
"Journalists in Egypt and the UAE have been differently challenged by the COVID-19 situation at multiple levels, (1) individual (2) work/routines and (3) media/organizational while covering COVID-19. Using the hierarchy of influences model, we analyze the differentiated journalists’ role conceptio
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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, volume 30, issue 4 (2023), pp. 752-760
"We provide a scoping review of Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) that mitigate COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation seeding and spread. Materials and Methods: We applied our search protocol to PubMed, PsychINFO, and Web of Science to screen 1666 articles. The 17 articles included in this pa
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Building a Chatbot in a Pandemic
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e42960 (2023), 8 pp.
"Easy access to evidence-based information on COVID-19 within an infodemic has been a challenging task. Chatbots have been introduced in times of emergency, when human resources are stretched thin and individuals need a user-centered resource. The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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Follow the Money: The Missing Link in the Booming Coverage of Mental Health
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 36 pp.
"Chapter one will set the context, by examining the harmful history of the media’s mental health coverage. I’ll present data on the growth in mental health coverage during the pandemic and show how personal narratives about mental health are gaining increasing space in public conversations, whil
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Using mass media to increase audiences’ ability to keep safe from explosive ordnance in Afghanistan
London: BBC Media Action (2023), 2 pp.
"BBC Media Action has been using mass media to help audiences recognise risks and keep safe from explosive ordnance (EO), which is widespread across Afghanistan following years of conflict. We conducted a panel study in 10 most affected provinces to evaluate the impact of our programme. We found tha
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Covid-19 Cure Perceptions and Media Use in India
Journal of Communication in Healthcare, volume 16, issue 4 (2023), pp. 358-369
"Background: During the early phases of Covid-19, social media platforms became a significant source of misinformation, and India emerged as a global hotspot. Studies show that ‘miracle cure’ for preventing and treating Covid-19 infection has been a prominent topic of misinformation. This study
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Distribution and Reception of Conspiracy Theories and Mobilization Calls on Telegram: Combining Evidence from a Content Analysis and Survey During the Pandemic
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 71, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 230-247
"Despite increased academic attention’s focus on conspiracy theories on Telegram, existing research has two major limitations: (1) a lack of combined examination of the distribution and reception of conspiracy theories, and (2) insufficient understanding of the relationship between the reception o
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Efficacy of Radio Entertainment Education in Promoting Health Behavior: A Meta-Analysis
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 387-407
"Radio-based entertainment education (EE) programs have long been a way to communicate health-related information, particularly in developing countries. To explore the effectiveness of these campaigns, we used meta-analysis to examine the results of 20 published studies on the effectiveness of healt
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Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: Downward spiral of press freedom in India
Review of Communication, volume 23, issue 3 (2023), pp. 210-227
"According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index rankings by the RSF, India ranks 161 out of 180 countries. One of the important indicators that the index bases the ranking on is the level of violence against the journalists and their overall safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian governme
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