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Advocacy and Interventions: Readings in Communication and Development

Royal D. Colle

Ithaca: Internet-First University Press (2007), vii, 436 pp.

"This is intended to be a "practical" book. It is filled with examples and case studies that illustrate ways that carefully planned and implemented communication interventions have produced positive results. It is also filled with ideas from people who have experienced the challenges of communicatin ... more

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Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH). Draft Report: Qualitative Assessment of Radio Serial Drama "Rock Point 256" in Uganda

Kampala: REEV Consult International (2007), xiii, 29 pp.

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Impact of FilmAid Programs in Kakuma, Kenya: Final Report

Katharine Lee, Paul Bolton

New York: FilmAid International (2007), 84 pp.

"FilmAid International (FilmAid) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to use the power of film to promote health, strengthen communities and enrich the lives of the world’s vulnerable and uprooted populations. FilmAid offers programming that aims to facilitate social change by providing co ... more

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A Training Manual for Media Workshops on Avian Influenza

Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office;Internews Network (2007), 61 pp.

"This manual provides a methodology for trainers and media support organizations interested in providing courses on the coverage of avian influenza. It also provides a sample three-day training course agenda, complete with suggested lectures, discussion topics, exercises, suggested reading, field tr ... more

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What the Papers Aren't Saying: How Can We Enhance Media Coverage of TB?

Lucy Stackpool-Moore, Anushree Mishra, Ronald Kayanja

Lusaka: Panos Global AIDS Programme (2007), 15 pp.

"This paper is a briefing for health practitioners, TB programmers, policymakers, media professionals and people affected by TB. Based on an analysis of media coverage of TB, it argues that health professionals and TB specialists should be supported to engage more effectively with the media so that ... more

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Improving Health Through Effective Ommunication

Jackie Davies, Mel Barnes

London; Reading, UK: Healthlink Worldwide;Gamos (2007), 31 pp.

"This paper outlines and provides evidence for the effects of five key approaches to health information and communication in relation to the health-related MDGs; according to the different stakeholders involved, i.e. Health policy makers, health researchers, health care providers, patients and citiz ... more

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Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services

Tara M. Sullivan, Molly Strachan, Barbara K. Timmons

Baltimore, Md.; Cambridge, Mass.; Washington, DC: Center for Communication Programs;Management Sciences for Health;Constella Futures (2007), x, 50 pp.

"The 29 indicators in the Guide measure the reach, usefulness, and use, as well as the collaboration, and capacity building engendered through information products and services. The innovative “Conceptual Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services” shows how ... more

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Neue Wege in der Prävention des Drogenkonsums - Onlineberatung am Beispiel von drugcom.de

Peter Tossmann

Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2007), 84 pp.

"Vor dem Hintergrund, dass immer mehr Menschen das Internet nutzen, hat die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) im Jahr 2001 mit www.drugcom.de ein Internetportal zur Drogen- und Suchtprävention etabliert. Vom Sommer 2001 bis zum Jahresende 2006 haben etwa 3000 junge Menschen per ... more

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Preventive Journalism and Coverage of Risk Situations: A Media Professional's Guide to Avian Influenza

Brasilia: ANDI (2007), 51 pp.

"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as ... more

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Guía de planificación participativa de estrategias de comunicación en salud

Juan Díaz Bordenave

Asunción: UNICEF, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Agencia Canadiense de Desarrolo Internacional (2007), 63 pp.

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Evaluating Mass Media Health Communication: The Use of Evaluation Data to Improve Theory

Joel Lehmann

Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg (2007), 127 pp.

"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us ... more

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Images and icons: Harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Yvonne MacPherson

Gender & Development, volume 15, issue 3 (2007), pp. 413-423

"Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how ... more

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Con el ruego de su difusión: La discapacidad, invisible ante la prensa peruana

Jaime Tipe Sánchez

Lima: Universidad de San Martín de Porres (2007), 140 pp.

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Media for All: Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio Description, and Sign Language

Jorge Díaz Cintas, Pilar Orero, Aline Remael (eds.)

Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007), 255 pp.

"This book, a first in its kind, offers a survey of the present state of affairs in media accessibility research and practice. It focuses on professional practices which are relative newcomers within the field of audiovisual translation and media studies, namely, audio description for the blind and ... more

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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for Tuberculosis Control: A Handbook for Country Programmes

Academy for Educational Development (AED), Program for Alternative Health Technologies (PATH)

World Health Organization (WHO) (2007), 80 pp.

"This handbook is primarily intended for staff that plan, organize and supervise tuberculosis (TB) control activities at the national level. Because tackling TB requires commitment and work at all levels, this guide can also be used by TB control staff at the provincial, state, and regional levels; ... more

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Health Communication: From Theory to Practice

Renata Schiavo

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2007), xxiv, 436 pp.

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Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment

Roland Bleiker, Amy Kay

International Studies Quarterly, volume 51, issue 1 (2007), pp. 139-163

"This essay explores the nature and political consequences of representing HIV/AIDS in Africa, where the disease has taken its greatest toll. We examine how different methods of photography embody different ideologies through which we give meaning to political phenomena. We distinguish three photogr ... more

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HIV/AIDS Outreach Programme in Southern Africa: Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS) and International Video Fair (IVF) Programmes

Neddy Matshalanga, Edem Djokotoe

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 56 pp.

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Tools Together Now! 100 Participatory Tools to Mobilise Communities for HIV/AIDS
Key Guidance

Brighton: International HIV/AIDS Alliance (2006), 248 pp.

"This toolkit provides a selection of 100 participatory learning and action (PLA) tools which you can use for HIV/AIDS programmes. PLA tools are interactive activities which enable communities and organisations to learn together about a HIV/AIDS in their community, develop a plan, act on it and eval ... more

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HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
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Ruth Pollard, Emma Walters

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 27 pp.

"The guide is divided into three parts: the basics, the media and more about HIV. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV and AIDS, treatments and diagnoses. Other sections cover the history of the virus, transmission, treatments, opportunistic infections and a chronological acco ... more

Tools Together Now! 100 Participatory Tools to Mobilise Communities for HIV/AIDS Key Guidance

HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS Key Guidance

Tools Together Now! 100 Participatory Tools to Mobilise Communities for HIV/AIDS
Key Guidance

HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
Key Guidance