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Communiquer sur Ebola: expérience du Sénégal du 23 mars au 1er décembre 2014. Récit et analyse critique des faits
Paris:
L’Harmattan
(2020), 204 pp.
ISBN 978-2-343-21720-8
"Le 23 mars 2014, l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé publie sur son site web l'apparition de la maladie à virus Ébola en Guinée. Du fait de la proximité du Sénégal avec la Guinée, la commission Média et Communication, dispositif multisectoriel et centre nerveux de la communication impulse ...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 8 pp.
"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Sierra Leone
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 8 pp.
"Sierra Leone continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the dissemination of information across various platforms. The media have generally been supportive in providing the public with information and education about COVID-19. However, media owners and managers continue to raise concerns...
Digital contact tracing for pandemic response: ethics and governance guidance
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2020), xiv, 139 pp., bibliogr. p.103-126
ISBN 978-1-4214-4061-3 (pbk); 978-1-4214-4063-7 (ebook)
CC BY-NC-ND
"There is no “one size fits all” approach to digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT). Technology design should not be static, but it should be capable of evolving depending upon local conditions, new evidence, and changing preferences and priorities. Technology companies alone should not con...
Behavioral science tips for COVID-19 communications
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU); Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics University of Pennsylvania; Ideas42.org
(2020), 2 pp.
"Human behavior plays a central role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. Communication by government entities and other trusted sources about desirable or mandated behaviors during the pandemic is critical. As policymakers, funders, and program staff, it is our responsibility to ensure that commu...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Liberia
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 7 pp.
"With the exception of the introduction of new press passes for the journalists by the Deputy Minister of Information and the harassment that followed its implementation, the media landscape in Liberia in May and June has been open and free. Even though the Ministry of Information reduced the freque...
Creating evidence-based youth mental health policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: a description of the integrated approach to addressing the issue of youth depression in Malawi and Tanzania
frontiers in psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.
"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ...
A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: working towards inclusive research
Methodological innovations, volume , issue September-Dezember (2019), pp. 1-19
CC BY-NC
"Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affec...
Malaria social and behavior change communication evidence literature review
Baltimore, Maryland:
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs; Health Communication Capacity Collaborative
(2017), 36 pp.
"There is a strong evidence base showing that SBCC programs can help improve malaria prevention and treatment behaviors. However, more work needs to be done to ensure that best practices are documented and used consistently. The review provides recommendations for strengthening peer-reviewed researc...
Hotline development support
International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)
(2016), 15 pp.
"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 Int...
Video making for all: a toolkit for making videos that include persons with disabilities
CBM International; End the Cycle; UNICEF Australia
(2016), 19 pp.
Other Editions: also published in Arabic, French and Spanish
"Videos have been used to successfully raise awareness on disability inclusion in many contexts. They can play a powerful role in helping transform negative attitudes that prevent the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities. Producing a video - even a short one - has many component...
Effectiveness of behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions in delivering health messages on antenatal care for improving maternal and child health (MCH) indicators in a limited literacy setting: an evidence summary of systematic reviews
London:
Department for International Development (DFID)
(2016), 45 pp.
Best laid plans: cultural entropy and the unraveling of AIDS media campaigns
Chicago; London:
University of Chicago Press
(2016), 257 pp.;, illustr., index, bibliogr. p.237-251
ISBN 978-0-226-38215-9
"Organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft resonant and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate people to buy a product or take active steps to improve their health. But once these campaigns le...
Media guidelines for reporting on accessible elections
General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA)
(2015), 55 pp., illustr., tables, glossary p.37-40, directory p.41-50
"For the last couple of years, there were more reporting on disability in the media but most of them only reporting and portraying the ‘uniqueness’ of disability. In the election news reporting, media only portray the Persons with Disabilities on the voting process but the news still did not hav...
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...
A literature review on health communication campaign evaluation with regard to the prevention and control of communicable diseases in Europe
Stockholm:
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
(2014), iv, 79 pp.
ISBN 978-92-9193-606-9
"The purpose of this review is to contribute to the evidence base on health communication evaluation research in order to aid public health professionals and researchers in the development of future evaluation strategies. The review is divided into two sections. In the first section the focus is on ...
Hotlines: responding to reports of illegal online content. A guide to setting up an internet hotline
London:
GSMA; Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content; International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)
(2014), 30 pp.
"As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting online child sexual abuse content and, in particular, to helping its members realise the objectives of the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content, the GSMA has worked with INHOPE, Save the Children, ECPAT, IWF, Net Safe Latvia, Meldpunt, ICM...
Healthcare management strategy, communication, and development challenges and solutions in developing countries
Lanham:
Lexington Books
(2014), xvi, 240 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-739185667
"This publication analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their developm...
Entertainment-Education für Kinder: Potenziale medialer Gesundheitsförderung im Bereich Ernährung
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2013), 336 pp., 47 tables, bibliogr. p.293-316
ISBN 978-3-8487-0236-7
Other Editions: Universität Erfurt, Doctoral Thesis, 2012
"Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Debatte um die Rolle der Medien für das kindliche Ernährungsverhalten und Übergewicht stellt dieser Band die Entertainment-Education-Strategie als Weg für eine effektive mediale Gesundheitskommunikation in den Mittelpunkt. Untersucht wird, ob in unterhaltende F...
Behaviour change communication interventions for HIV/AIDS
Eschborn:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
(2012), 6 pp., bibliogr. p.5
"Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) interventions have variable effects on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour with regard to HIV/AIDS. Studies show that peer education is successful at increasing knowledge, increasing condom use, and providing youth with information and condoms; however, effects o...
