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Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Edward W. Maibach (Editor), Edward Maibach, Roxanne L. Parrott
ISBN-13: 9780803953987, ISBN-10: 0803953984
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: February 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Edward W. Maibach

Book Synopsis

How do you design an effective message for a health campaign? This book explores this question from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors 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 theory and research in communication and health behavior change. This book will be an essential aid to designing messages for use in health communication campaigns.

Table of Contents

Preface
Pt. ITheory-Driven Approaches to Health Message Design1
1Motivation to Attend to Health Messages: Presentation of Content and Linguistic Considerations7
2Encouraging Risk Reduction: A Decision-Making Approach to Message Design24
3Moving People to Behavior Change: A Staged Social Cognitive Approach to Message Design41
4Fear Appeals in Health Promotion Campaigns: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?65
5Thinking Positively: Using Positive Affect When Designing Health Messages81
6Designing Messages for Behavioral Inoculation99
7Reaching Young Audiences: Developmental Considerations in Designing Health Messages114
8Fishing for Success: Using the Persuasive Health Message Framework to Generate Effective Campaign Messages145
Pt. IIAudience-Centered Strategies for Health Message Design167
9Using Research to Inform Campaign Development and Message Design: Examples From the "America Responds to AIDS" Campaign169
10Choosing Audience Segmentation Strategies and Methods for Health Communication186
11The Gatekeeping Process: The Right Combinations to Unlock the Gates199
12Use of Database Marketing and Consumer-Based Health Communication in Message Design: An Example From the Office of Cancer Communications' "5 a Day for Better Health" Program217
Pt. IIICombining Theory and Practice: Additional Considerations247
13Supplementing Health Campaign Messages: Recent Developments in Informing Patients About Their Prescription Drugs249
14Enabling Health: Policy and Administrative Practices at a Crossroads270
Index284
About the Contributors299

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