Health Communication In Africa

Author : A. Odasuo Alali,B. A. Jinadu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000087764571

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Health Communication in Africa by A. Odasuo Alali,B. A. Jinadu Pdf

The editors of Health Communication in Africa have assembled an impressive list of scholars and practitioners to discuss some of the public health efforts and disease prevention strategies, conspicuously absent in health communication literature. A variety of subjects are addressed, including: existing and innovative health promotion programs; outcome evaluation and effectiveness studies; health communication in refugee settings and among international, national, and regional agencies that have been successfully implemented. This book will serve as a road map for those interested in the study of health communication, health promotion, and disease prevention strategies in Africa.

Author : Bankole Falade,Mercy Murire
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811625466

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Health Communication and Disease in Africa by Bankole Falade,Mercy Murire Pdf

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health behaviour. Chapters address mental health, risk perception, stigma, reproductive health, religion and health. The book also examines conceptual approaches in health communication and community development, both western and indigenous. Specific topics include Alzheimer’s, HIV and stigma; perception of risk from obesity, HIV prevention and preeclampsia; doctor-patient relationship and health beliefs of birth attendants; culture and mental health access and social media effects on mental health; the complementary use of contemporary and indigenous communication strategies and the accommodation of science by religious leaders during the COVID 19 pandemic. The book, which starts by examining global inequalities in health, proposes an African approach informed by problematisation as theorised by Foucault and Freire, to unpack habits and social problems. It ends by asking the question: “Is science enough” and making a strong case for health enabling environments alongside science communication.

Author : Ravindra Kumar Vemula,SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319335391

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape by Ravindra Kumar Vemula,SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu Pdf

This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information relates to traditional belief systems and local philosophies; the implications for health communicators; how certain forms of silence are produced when media articulates and problematizes only a few health issues and sidelines others; and much more. The book brings together current research and discussions on the three areas of policy, practices and theoretical perspectives related to health communication approaches in developing countries, presenting well-researched and documented essays that will prove helpful for academic and scholarly inquiry in this area.

Author : Piet Swanepoel,Hans Hoeken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290106

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Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs by Piet Swanepoel,Hans Hoeken Pdf

The question of what constitutes effective health communication has been addressed mainly by scholars working in American and European cultural contexts. Many people who could benefit most from effective health communication, however, come from different cultures. A prime example is the threat posed by HIV/AIDS to the people of South Africa. Although it is generally acknowledged that health communication needs to be tailored to the target audience’s characteristics with cultural background being one of the most salient ones, little research has been done on how to achieve this. In this book, we bring together leading scholars in the field of health communication as well as communication scholars from South Africa. As such, it can serve as an example of the promises and the limitations of general health communication theories to local praxis as well as provide guidelines for the development of better health communication in South Africa.

Author : Akwala, Alfred O.,Ngetich, Joel K.,Theuri, Agnes Wanjiku Muchura
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522580928

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Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa by Akwala, Alfred O.,Ngetich, Joel K.,Theuri, Agnes Wanjiku Muchura Pdf

Communication plays a critical role in enhancing social, cultural, and business relations. Research on media, language, and cultural studies is fundamental in a globalized world because it illuminates the experiences of various populations. There is a need to develop effective communication strategies that will be able to address both health and cultural issues globally. Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa is a collection of innovative research on the impact of media and especially new media on health and culture. While highlighting topics including civic engagement, gender stereotypes, and interpersonal communication, this book is ideally designed for university students, multinational organizations, diplomats, expatriates, and academicians seeking current research on how media, health, and culture can be appropriated to overcome the challenges that plague the world today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789036101370

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Health Communication in Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

It is also an invaluable resource for professionals who are involved in health communication.

Author : Bankole Falade,Mercy Murire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811625476

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Health Communication and Disease in Africa by Bankole Falade,Mercy Murire Pdf

'This book will be of great value to health practitioners and policy-makers, researchers and students. Chapters showcase a range of theoretical approaches to health communication skilfully linked by the editors' Introductory and Concluding chapters. Together they provide the basis for a theoretical toolkit for the development of actionable understandings of the processes through which abstract scientific knowledge is communicated to real people in real contexts - and the social and psychological factors that mediate the success of a communication. It presents a compelling vision of an approach that is deeply rooted in African scholarship.' - Catherine Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Bankole Falade is a research fellow with the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. His research interests are in science and health communication. Mercy Murire is a Senior researcher at the Wits Reproductive Health Institute (WRHI) and a researcher at University of Witwatersrand with the school of clinical medicine. Her research interests are in psychology and public health focusing on the intersections between sexual and reproductive health (SRH), mental health, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV prevention, HIV stigma, contraceptives, and gender-based violence in adolescent girls and young women.

Author : Charles C. Okigbo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461493358

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Strategic Urban Health Communication by Charles C. Okigbo Pdf

Strategic Urban Health Communication Charles C. Okigbo, editor People are bombarded with messages continuously and sorting through them constantly. In this milieu, critical ideas about health promotion and illness prevention are forced to compete with distracting, conflicting, even contradictory information. To get vital messages through, communication must be effective, targeted, artful—in a word, strategic. Strategic Urban Health Communication provides a road map for understanding strategy, enhancing strategic planning skills, and implementing strategic communication campaigns. Deftly written chapters link the art and science of strategic planning to world health goals such as reducing health inequities and eradicating diseases. Flexibility is at the heart of these cases, which span developed and developing countries, uses of traditional and digital media, and chronic and acute health challenges. And the contributors ground their dispatches in the larger context of health promotion, giving readers useful examples of thinking globally while working locally. Included in the coverage: Urbanization, population, and health myths: addressing common misconceptions. Integrating HIV/family planning programs: opportunities for strategic communication. The role of sports in strategic health promotion in low-income areas. The Internet as a sex education tool: a case study from Thailand. Advertising and childhood obesity in China. Health communication strategies for sustainable development in a globalized world. Balancing depth of understanding of audiences and methods of reaching them, Strategic Urban Health Communication is a forward-looking resource geared toward professionals and researchers in urban health, global health, and health communication.

Author : Teresa L. Thompson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483389783

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Encyclopedia of Health Communication by Teresa L. Thompson Pdf

From the dynamics of interpersonal communication between health professionals and clients to global command-and-control during public health emergencies that cross international borders, the field of health communication bridges many disciplines and involves efforts from the micro to the macro. It involves navigating personal, cultural, and political complexities and an ability to distill complex technical science into quickly and easily understood terms for ready distribution by the mass media--or to an individual patient or to the parent of an ailing child. Despite an abundance of textbooks, specialized monographs, and academic handbooks, this is the first encyclopedic reference work in this area, covering the breadth of theory and research on health communication, as well as their practical application. Features: Nearly 600 original articles are organized A-to-Z within a three-volume set to provide comprehensive coverage of this exciting field, including such topics as theories and research traditions; evaluation and assessment; cultural complexities; high risk and special populations; message design and campaigns; provider/patient interaction issues; media issues; and more. All articles were specifically commissioned for this work, signed and authored by key figures in the field, and conclude with cross reference links and suggestions for further reading. Appendices include a Resource Guide with annotated lists of classic books and articles, journals, associations, and web sites; a Glossary of specialized terms; and a Chronology offering an overview and history of the field. A thematic Reader’s Guide groups related articles by broad topic areas as one handy search feature on the e-Reference platform, which also includes a comprehensive index of search terms. This A-to-Z three-volume reference is available in both print and online formats and is a must-have for libraries and researchers who seek comprehensive coverage of the theory, research, and applications of health communication.

Author : Robert Hornik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135671457

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Public Health Communication by Robert Hornik Pdf

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 authors who did the original research. These studies show important effects and illustrate the central conditions for success. The book also includes complementary analytic chapters which provide a meta-analysis of published results, some approaches to developing communication interventions, and alternative methods for evaluation of public health communication projects. Including studies based on communication programs in the United States, as well as projects done elsewhere in the world, including Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book: *offers a broad presentation of the alternative research designs that have been used to evaluate public health communication programs; *includes a great range of approaches from field experiments and natural experiments to simple before-after and complex time series designs, using data gathered from individuals and from archives; and *utilizes an innovative perspective on how to exercise public health communication from a leading and thoughtful practitioner. As such, it is required reading for scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers in public health, health communication, health psychology, and related areas.

Author : Rafael Obregon,Silvio Waisbord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118241905

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The Handbook of Global Health Communication by Rafael Obregon,Silvio Waisbord Pdf

International in scope, The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change Brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wide range of communication approaches in current global health programs Offers an integrated view that links communication to the strengthening of health services, the involvement of affected communities in shaping health policies and improving care, and the empowerment of citizens in making decisions about health Adopts a broad understanding of communication that goes beyond conventional divisions between informational and participatory approaches

Author : Claire Penn,Jennifer Watermeyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137581006

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Communicating Across Cultures and Languages in the Health Care Setting by Claire Penn,Jennifer Watermeyer Pdf

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current globalization and migration trends. The authors draw from a large body of evidence based across different sites and illnesses, scrutinising both the language dynamics of intercultural health interactions and the perceptions and narratives of multiple participants. Including a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical considerations, the volume sheds light upon qualitative research methods and their application in the intercultural context. This book will be a valuable resource for health professionals, medical educators and language practitioners as well as students and scholars of discourse analysis and the medical humanities.

Author : Charles Okigbo,Festus Eribo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742527468

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Development and Communication in Africa by Charles Okigbo,Festus Eribo Pdf

Although Africa is the world's poorest continent, it is a major emerging market and partner in the global village of the new millennium. This book presents a wide array of perspectives on the problems and prospects of developing Africa. Leading scholars in African studies and international communication analyze the socio-political and cultural experiences in various communities, focusing on key questions: What is development? What are the main issues surrounding development in Africa? And how can communication per se be used to address the persistent problems of underdevelopment?

Author : Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351273190

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies by Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton Pdf

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.

Author : Shaunak Sastry,Heather Zoller,Ambar Basu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782889665631

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“Doing” Critical Health Communication. A Forum on Methods by Shaunak Sastry,Heather Zoller,Ambar Basu Pdf