Designing Health Communication Campaigns
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Designing Health Communication Campaigns

What Works?

  1. 181 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Designing Health Communication Campaigns

What Works?

About this book

Advances in health care have made extraordinary changes in the life expectancy and level of vitality of the average American. Still, according to the U. S. Surgeon General, a full one-half of all premature deaths are due to lifestyle and, therefore, preventable. This important collection presents a comparative synthesis of what works and what does not in mass media health campaigns. High priority is given to coverage of substance abuse prevention campaigns, but programs on AIDS, smoking, teenage pregnancy, heart disease, Alzheimer?s Disease, and vehicle seat belt use are also reviewed. Designing Health Communication Campaigns deepens our understanding of how to design, implement, and evaluate mass media campaigns by highlighting the contributions of media experts who add a human element to the various campaign experiences they describe. This work is indispensable in a fast-evolving field where it serves as both a reference and a concordance for interpreting many other analytic sources. Campaign designers, researchers, communications scholars and graduate students as well as policymakers and program funders will find the book to be valuable in helping make critical decisions about effective mass communication campaigns. "This volume is valuable because it emphasizes actual experiences, and is thus recommended as an adjunct to classic texts in the field. Graduate; faculty; professional." --Choice

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Yes, you can access Designing Health Communication Campaigns by Thomas E. Backer,Everett Rogers,Pradeep Sopory in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One - Overview
  5. The Challenge of Health Behavior Change
  6. One Solution: Health Communication Campaigns
  7. Two Examples of Health Communication Campaigns
  8. The Comparative Synthesis Study
  9. Substance Abuse and High-Risk Youth
  10. Setting the Agenda for the Issue of Drugs
  11. Part Two - Generalizations about Health Communication Campaigns
  12. Overview
  13. Generalizations about Health Communication Campaigns
  14. Discussion
  15. Part Three - Interviews with Campaign Designers/Experts
  16. Elaine Bratic Arkin
  17. Warren J. Ashley
  18. Charles Atkin
  19. Thomas E. Backer
  20. Edwin Chen
  21. Patrick C. Coleman
  22. Larry Deutchman
  23. Brian Dyak
  24. Fern Field
  25. Juan M. Flavier
  26. Brian Flay
  27. June Flora
  28. Vicki Freimuth
  29. Kipling J. Gallion
  30. Robert W. Gillespie
  31. Robert Hornik
  32. Jose Ruben Jara
  33. C. Anderson Johnson
  34. Marcy Kelly
  35. Lawrence Kincaid
  36. David McCallum
  37. Jacqueline E. McDonald
  38. John V. Pavlik
  39. Mary Ann Pentz
  40. Ronald E. Rice
  41. Everett M. Rogers
  42. Charles Salmon
  43. Larry Stewart
  44. Lawrence Wallack
  45. Part Four - Implications and Future Directions
  46. Implications for Campaign Design
  47. Implications for Future Research
  48. References
  49. About the Authors