Health Communication Science Digest – October 2013

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 10/31/2013 08:17 AM EDT

Dear colleagues,

The October issue of Health Communication Science Digest (HCSD or Digest) is now available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/ScienceDigest/index.html

This month we congratulate our CDC colleagues Tim McAfee, Robert L. Alexander, Jr., Terry F. Pechacek, and Rebecca Bunnell (all NCCDPHP/OSH) who are coauthors of the paper “Effect of the first federally funded US antismoking national media campaign” published in The Lancet.

Also in the Digest this month, there are several papers reporting public health communication interventions (Buhi, et al.; Flowers, et al.; Li, et al.; McAfee, et al.; Mullins, et al.) while others examine aspects of new media in health communication practice (Goldner, et al.; Junco; Naughton, et al.; Osatuyi; Purohit, et al.; Young, et al.). Health messaging considerations are highlighted in several studies (Cohen & Head; Gerrend & Shepherd; Jang, et al.O’Hara, et al.; Parvanta, et al.; Ramírez) while others explore health literacy (Shreffler-Grant, et al.). New idea for public health communication endeavors are also discussed (Guidotti).

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We hope that you find the Health Communication Science Digest useful and invite you to provide us with feedback for improvement. Please send us articles that you would like to share with others—articles you or your colleagues have published or found useful.

Please send your comments and questions to HCSD@cdc.gov.

We wish you much success in your public health work!

Doğan Eroğlu

Associate Director for Communication Science

Office of the Associate Director for Communication

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Health Communication Science Digest

Moving science-based knowledge into application is recognized as a top priority to achieve and enhance public health impact. Science-based knowledge that can inform health communication practice emerges from diverse disciplinary areas (e.g., advertising, communication, epidemiology, marketing, psychology). The diversity of resources and the high volume of publications in these areas create significant challenges for those wishing to follow the scientific literature in health communication and marketing.
To address this challenge, the Science Team in the Office of the Associate Director for Communication created Health Communication Science Digest (HCSD). The HCSD series is designed to enhance awareness of emerging health communication and marketing scientific knowledge by providing you easy access to recently published articles and reports with particular relevance for the public health communication community.
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