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Spot on Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
Key Guides
Washington, DC: USAID, Change Project (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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Evaluating Health-Promoting Radio Programs: A Toolbox for HAFY Radio Stations in Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek: UNICEF; Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2004), 96 pp.
"Community radio stations can monitor and evaluate their health and social development programming despite being small, with limited funds. That's the message of an evaluation and monitoring Toolbox created especially for a UNICEF-supported youth radio project in Kyrgyzstan. The 'Healthy Airwaves fo
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The Gender Guide for Health Communication Programs
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2003), 22 pp.
"The purpose of the Gender Guide is to encourage the incorporation of gender-based roles and responsibilities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health communication programs. The guide does not directly address broad-based issues of gender equity. It does, however, provide questions t
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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Putting Public Health in the Spotlight. A Resource for Health Communicators
Copenhagen: World Health Organization (WHO) (2003), 4 modules + annexes
"This manual introduces public health workers and advocates to the essential elements of communications (with many examples and models), ranging from small brochures or radio interviews, to large campaigns and ongoing projects. It provides guidance in recognizing and combating the ‘hazard merchant
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Designing and Implementing an Effective Tobacco Counter-Marketing Campaign
Key Guides
Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2003), 456 pp.
"This manual is designed to be a comprehensive resource for state health departments and other agencies and organizations in developing and implementing tobacco counter-marketing campaigns. It is designed to help readers who have different levels of experience and are managing programs at different
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"This book is a revision of the original Making Health Communication Programs Work, first printed in 1989, which the Office of Cancer Communications (OCC, now the Office of Communications) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed to guide communication program planning. During the 25 years t
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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change
Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.
"This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the au
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Communication strategies for smoking cessation: A review of the scientific literature on the subject
Cologne: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2002), 124 pp.
"The following questions will be examined: Which methods of communication (mass communication, Internet, personal communication) promise effective communication with smokers? Which messages (contents) promise effective communication with smokers? Which multipliers promise effective communication wit
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Communication Handbook for Polio Eradication and Routine EPI
New York; Harare: UNICEF; World Health Organization (WHO) (2000), 99, 45 pp.
Communications Programming for HIV/AIDS: An Annotated Bibliography
Geneva: UNAIDS (1999), 112 pp.
"This document contains 667 references and has been organized according to recent findings in our review of the application of current communication frameworks to HIV/AIDS communication. In short, there seems to be a consensus among academics, researchers, and practitioners that a new framework in H
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Radio y VIH/SIDA: Cómo marcar la diferencia. Manual para profesionales de la radio, personal sanitario y donantes
Geneva: UNAIDS; Media Action International (1999), 120 pp.
"[Esta publicación] es una guía práctica para producir el tipo de programas de radio que hará a los oyentes pararse a pensar en el VIH-SIDA y en cómo pueden ayudar a reducir el riesgo de infección. En 1998, el SIDA mató a 1,4 millones de personas y dejó huérfanos a seis millones de niños e
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Radio and HIV/AIDS: Making a Difference. A Guide for Practitioners, Health Workers and Donors
Geneva: UNAIDS; Media Action International (1999), 120 pp.
"This is a practical guide to producing the kind of radio programmes which will make listeners stop and think about HIV/AIDS and how they can help reduce the risk of infection. In 1998 AIDS killed 1.4 million people and left 6 million orphans in Eastern and Southern Africa alone. Lack of information
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Health on Air: A Guide to Creative Radio for Development
London: Health Unlimited (1998), 103 pp.
Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger (1997), xx, 307 pp.
"This book presents a compilation of lessons learned by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and its partners over 15 years of developing and implementing family planning communication projects campaigns in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. An introductory essay provides
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Communication for Health and Behaviour Change: A Developing Country Perspective
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1993), xxvi, 204 pp.
Based on the work of HealthCom, a fifteen-year, twenty-country project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the book builds on a practical, five-step model for communication that promotes change in existing behaviors and supports preventive health practices. Using numerous exampl
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Communication for Child Survival
Washington, DC: USAID; Academy for Educational Development (AED); Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (1988), viii, 144 pp.
