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The Drum Beat 191 - Health Communication Anthology

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HEALTH COMMUNICATION ANTHOLOGY

Results of the Health Communication Anthology Inquiry on The Communication Initiative (CI)/ La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA)

THE PROCESS

Upon a request from the Pan American Health Organization, several months ago we invited, through the Drum Beat and Son de Tambora networks, your opinions with regards to a set of materials we described as a Health Communication Anthology. The objective of this exercise was to offer social change communication practitioners and academics a set of materials that have already been used with success in the field and have the recognition of people working in communication and development.

Below you will find the results of this process, which included several steps:

  • CI/CILA put together an initial list of 45 materials.
  • This list was shared with a group of experts working in the field of health communication who provided initial feedback, leading to a final list of 61 materials.
  • Dissemination of this list to the health communicators within both networks with 3 specific questions: 1) feedback on which materials thought best; 2) which materials should not be part of the anthology; and 3) which other materials should have been included in the final list.
  • A follow up process by which CI/CILA contacted organisations and individuals to ensure that materials suggested for inclusion in the Anthology were either available via Internet or through any other means. Those materials for which CI/CILA were unable to get specific contact information were left out of the Anthology.


For further information about this process, please contact Rafael Obregon obregon@ohio.edu or Juana Marulanda jmarulanda@comminit.com

THE RESULTS

This process resulted in a current total (April 2003) of 109 materials including print publications, online documents, summaries, CD-ROMs, and videos. These materials range from research documents to guides, to factsheets and worksheets for field workers, to case studies, to reports, to policy papers, to analyses of programming activities, to field-tested materials used within campaigns. We look forward to this list continuing to grow as we receive additional suggestions through this continuing process.

Although this Health Communication Anthology is meant to be a resource for academics and practitioners working primarily in the field of health communication, many of the materials may also be very useful in other communication areas.

The FULL ANTHOLOGY list is in alphabetical order, and can be viewed at:
Click here to view in English.
Click here to view in Spanish from A to L.
Click here to view in Spanish from M to Z.

THE CATEGORIES

In addition to the full listing, the materials were classified into diverse categories: Children & Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Gender, General Health, HIV/AIDS, Media, Participation & Social Mobilisation, Reproductive Health & Family Planning, Strategic Communication, and Training. Some materials are included in several different categories.

Children & Adolescents: includes materials on social marketing for children, reports on children's communication programming, youth-friendly educational materials, a newspaper for and by youth, and a video series for children in South Asia.
Click here to view in English.
Click here to view in Spanish.

Curriculum Development: includes training guides, curriculum outlines, a CD-rom, and resources for reference.
Click here to view in English.
Click here to view in Spanish.

Evaluation: includes lessons learned from various communication programmes, and a guide to operations research in family planning and reproductive health. Click here to view in Spanish.

Gender: includes curriculum outlines, strategies and thinking on a gender perspective of health issues, and a report on policies that place women at the center of efforts to address population concerns. Click here to view in Spanish.

General Health: includes materials on human rights, TB, ageing, policy making, poverty issues, domestic violence, etc., from videos to case studies to conference reports to guides and manuals. Click here to view in Spanish.

HIV/AIDS: includes a curriculum outline, a CD-Rom, a video, case studies, and lessons learned, as well as strategies and thinking on priorities, advocacy and and gender issues related to HIV and AIDS.
Click here to view in Spanish.

Media: includes materials on radio, TV, print, CD-ROMs, alternative media, and advertising from strategic articles to interactive guides, to marketing strategies, to background materials on specific projects. Click here to view in Spanish.

Participation & Social Mobilisation: includes lessons and models in the form of case studies and a video, strategies for interpersonal activities, and forms, checklists and handbooks for field workers. Click here to view in Spanish.

Reproductive Health & Family Planning: includes guides for project development, strategic analyses of issues in specific contexts, case studies, curricula, factsheets, and educational materials. Click here to view in Spanish.

Strategic Communication: includes materials on communication planning, strategic communication thinking, communication for behavior change, communication for social change, edutainment, and social marketing. Click here to view in Spanish.

Training: includes manuals, handbooks, guides, tools, planning models, and instructional CD-ROMs. Click here to view in Spanish.

THE CONTINUING PROCESS

This anthology is by no means exhaustive, nor complete. It is the aim of CI/CILA that through your suggestions and recommendations we will continue to update and enrich this anthology. In order to facilitate this, we are providing an e-mail address to receive further contributions. If possible, when submitting suggestions, please supply the title, author, short summary and reason for including in this anthology, contact person with email or phone, and a website address or way to obtain the material suggested.

Please send contributions to: jmarulanda@comminit.com

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PULSE POLL

Celebrities or leaders who have high profile roles in campaigns must always practise what they preach.

Do you agree or disagree?

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