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Designing Health Messages Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice

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ISBN-10: 0803953984

ISBN-13: 9780803953987

Edition: 1995

Authors: Edward W. Maibach, Roxanne L. Parrott

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"Chapter overviews, subheadings, and summaries facilitate a quick reading and review for graduate students and busy professionals in public health, the social sciences, communication, and related health policy-making fields." --Academic Library Book Review How do you design an effective health campaign message? Designing Health Messages explores this question from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The authors, all well-known for cutting-edge research in their field, demonstrate the necessity of basing message design decisions on appropriate theories of human behavior and communication effectiveness by synthesizing and integrating knowledge and insights from communication and…    
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List price: $151.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.60" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Dr. Edward Maibach is a University Professor and Director of Mason s Center for Climate Change Communication (4C). In the Department of Communication, he teaches seminars in climate change communication, strategic communication, and social marketing. His research currently focuses exclusively on how to mobilize populations to adopt behaviors and support public policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change. Dr. Maibach holds a BA in social psychology from University of California at San Diego (1980), an MPH in health promotion from San Diego State University (1983), and a PhD in communication research from Stanford…    

Theory-Driven Approaches to Health Message Design
Motivation to Attend to Health Messages
Presentation of Content and Linguistic Considerations
Encouraging Risk Reduction
A Decision-Making Approach to Message Design
Moving People to Behavior Change
A Staged Social Cognitive Approach to Message Design
Fear Appeals in Health Promotion Campaigns
Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?
Thinking Positively
Using Positive Affect When Designing Health Messages
Designing Messages for Behavioral Inoculation
Reaching Young Audiences
Developmental Considerations in Designing Health Messages
Fishing for Success
Using the Persuasive Health Message Framework to Generate Effective Campaign Messages
Audience-Centered Strategies for Health Message Design
Using Research to Inform Campaign Development and Message Design
Examples from the 'American Responds to AIDS' Campaign
Choosing Audience Segmentation Strategies and Methods for Health Communication
The Gatekeeping Process
The Right Combinations to Unlock the Gates
Use of Database Marketing and Consumer-Based Health Communication in Message Design
An Example From the Office of Cancer Communication's '5 a Day for Better Health' Program
Combining Theory and Practice: Additional Considerations
Supplementing Health Campaign Messages
Recent Developments in Informing Patients about Their Prescription Drugs
Enabling Health
Policy and Administrative Practices at a Crossroads