Health Communication Science Digest | Gateway to Health Communication | CDC

Health Communication Science Digest | Gateway to Health Communication | CDC

Dear colleagues,

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

Several studies in is month’s Digest report on Health communication campaigns and/or interventions. Tobacco use cessation (Allen, et al; Duke, et al.; Leas, et al.; Puckett, et al.) and cancer control and prevention (Anders, et al.; McAlpine, et al.) are the primary topics covered. Health message design and evaluation is the focus of many writers (Best, et al.; Guillaumier, et al.; Schwebel, et al.; Yan; Zebergs, et al.). Studies of health information delivery (Murdoch, et al.; Stephens, et al.; White, et al.), risk communication (Adame & Miller; Nan, et al.) and health literacy (Mallory-Weir, et al.) are also detailed.

Please remember that you can access all issues of the “Health Communication Science Digest” series online via the searchable Health Communication Science Digest Archive.

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.

Doğan Eroğlu

Associate Director for Communication Science

Office of the Associate Director for Communication

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA