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Cipolla, M. "ONE COMMUNICATION AND ONE HEALTH: COMMUNICATION IN VETERINARY MEDICINE TO IMPROVE HUMAN HEALTH." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/232569.
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Health communication has become recently an essential and powerful tool for public health. Its role has been largely recognized in human medicine, but it has been less considered in veterinary medicine even if this latter field is not less decisive for the human health. The One Health concept unified the two medicines recognizing that human health is inextricably connected to animal health and environment.
Within this framework, we design this study to investigate the relationship between health communication and One Health. Particularly, we focused on the role of communication in veterinary medicine and how it has the potential to improve human health.
Veterinary medicine competences include a broad spectrum of aspects, which can’t be covered in a single study. Moreover, we were interested in investigate if communication has a role also in the veterinary areas traditionally considered less linked to public health. Therefore, this study was focused on clinical communication, both in companion and in food-producing animals practice.
This study confirmed the outcomes from previous surveys and showed the importance of communication in veterinary medicine in improving human health.
Communication in veterinary medicine is not less important for human health, and is not different from what is usually considered health communication. Indeed, both of them cover the same issue (zoonoses, food safety etc.) and use the same strategies.
Therefore, a “One Communication” approach appear to be the most helpful tool in improving human health in the One World-One Health-One Medicine.
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Portman, Emily. "Making The Healthy Choice: Exploring Health Communication In The Food System." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/614.
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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Cooperative Extension System are organizations that serve the public and agricultural communities, respectively. Within these broad organizations are two groups of food systems professionals, registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) and Extension agents, who are utilizing communication as a critical point of access for health-related issues. Both groups of professionals negotiate organizational structure in order to construct their own health knowledge and, subsequently, communicate accurate information to their constituents. Understanding the ways that these professionals navigate their roles as health communicators are important for contributing to public discourse about how health knowledge is created and disseminated.
Specifically, for the first article, I conducted semi-structured interviews with RDNs to analyze the ways in which they navigate both commercial and health messaging from industry groups at their largest organizational meeting. Industry affiliations have historically been a controversial aspect of Academy operations, yet little research has explored RDNs unique experiences with industry. Findings revealed RDNs have varied interpretations of industry messages and are utilizing strategies to negotiate interactions with industry. The spectrum of RDN interpretation suggests that formal dietetic training should address media literacy strategies in order to help RDNs navigate a complex message landscape.
For the second article, through national focus groups with Extension professionals, I sought to understand how Extension is responding to healthcare reform changes and how this has translated into programming for their constituents. Extension participants reported a lack of available resources to improve their own health insurance knowledge, which has impacted their abilities to serve their constituents effectively. Findings emphasized a need for both collaborations both within Extension and across other agencies in order to improve health insurance access for agricultural communities.
By researching these two organizations, I hope to contribute to new understandings about how professionals navigate and communicate knowledge related to public health. Both articles have practical implications for each group, and they also offer examples of opportunities to utilize leverage points for structural change within the food system.
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Monnot, Marilee. "Mother-infant communication and infant health." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627416.
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Wilson, Carol Barbara. "Improving Health Literacy with Clear Communication." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1989.
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Health literacy is demonstrated when individuals can obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Veteran health literacy is believed to be lower than the general population due to the aging and culturally diverse population. Veterans require adequate health literacy to manage their diverse high acuity physical injuries, psychological conditions, and chronic diseases. Clear communication between the clinician and veteran patient is essential to provide high quality health services. The objective of this quality-improvement project was to evaluate the ability of nurses in the ambulatory environment to identify low health literacy patients and to deliver an educational intervention focused on health literacy awareness and communication strategies. A pre-intervention Clear Communications Questionnaire (CCQ), a validated instrument, was delivered to 299 ambulatory nurses with a 20% response rate. The results from this questionnaire informed the development of a 40-minute educational program, multimedia and discussion format, provided to 200 nurses. Following the education program, the post-intervention CCQ was sent to the nurses, with a 30% response rate. Survey Monkey was utilized to collect the CCQ data and Minitab for the statistical analysis, including a pre- and post-intervention data analysis with a t test. While this project was unable to show a significant difference between the pre- and post-intervention CCQ, the individual survey items indicated increased awareness about the importance of health literacy and the ability to locate patient health literacy level in the medical record. Further work needs to be undertaken to assure veteran patients can actively engage in clear communication with clinicians, discern between treatment options, adhere to treatment recommendations, and develop health-seeking behaviors across their lifespans.
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Jama, Mahmud Amina. "Designing ICT-Supported Health Promoting Communication in Primary Health Care." Doctoral thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för hälsa, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00571.
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Increasing lifestyle-related ill health, escalating health care costs, expanding health inequalities within and between nations, and an aging population are challenges facing governments globally. Governments, especially in industrialized countries like Sweden, are investing in health promotion and health communication, especially in ICT-supported health communication as a way to increase health literacy and empowerment at individual and population levels. Studies show that many eHealth communication efforts are narrow in scope, medical oriented and therefore not enough to address the complexity of lifestyle-related ill health and equity issues. This thesis proposes integrating health promotion values and principles in the design process of eHealth systems for health promotion in order to develop usable, sustainable, engaging, eHealth resources that are adaptable to their context of use and user’s skills. The overall aim of this thesis was study the participatory development process of an interactive ICT-supported health communication channel for health promotion and enhancing health literacy in PHC context. Participatory Action Research (PAR) with a multi-phase and multi-method approach was used in this thesis. A model entitled Spiral Technology Action Research’ (STAR) was used to guide the development of the health channel. This design process was framed in three developmental and evaluation phases corresponding to formative, process and outcome evaluation. A total of 146 participants consisting of professionals from primary health care services, information technology and academia, and local citizens participated in the project’s different phases. A triangulation of methods was used to collect the data; survey, document analysis, participatory observations with field notes, individual interviews, focus groups, think aloud protocols and log statistics. Qualitative and quantitative content analyses were used to analyse data. The results revealed that integrating health promotion values and principles in the design process proved to be valuable not only to the content of the channel, but also in PHC practice. The different design phases yielded valuable results that built into each other and contributed to an eHealth channel that was perceived as relevant to the local people’s need for health communication; accessible and user friendly. The results also indicated that an Internet based interactive health channel, could be a valuable resource for enhancing health literacy if users are involved in the design.
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Danis, Ajau. "Health communication and health literacy : participants perspectives on the PROSTAR Health Promotion Programme." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2006. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5800/.
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Radford, Benjamin. "Misinformation in eating disorder communications| Implications for science communication policy." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1546959.
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Though eating disorders are a serious public health threat, misinformation about these potentially deadly diseases is widespread. This study examines eating disorder information from a wide variety of sources including medical journals, news reports, and popular social activist authors. Examples of misinformation were identified, and three aspects of eating disorders (prevalence, mortality, and etiology) were chosen as key indicators of scientific illiteracy about those illnesses. A case study approach was then adopted to trace examples of misinformation to their original sources whenever possible. A dozen examples include best-selling books, national eating disorder information clearinghouses; the news media; documentary feature films; and a PBS television Nova documentary program. The results provide an overview of the ways in which valid information becomes flawed, including poor journalism, lack of fact-checking, plagiarism, and typographical errors. Less obvious—and perhaps even more important—much of the misinformation results from scientific research being co-opted to promote specific sociopolitical agendas. These results highlight a significant gap in science communication between researchers, the medical community, and the public regarding these diseases, and recommendations to address the problem are offered.
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Ahmed, Rukhsana. "Assessing the role of cultural differences on health care receivers' perceptions of health care providers' cultural competence in health care interactions." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1178244318.
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Lambert, Timothy W. "Relational ethics in public health risk communication." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0012/NQ34795.pdf.
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Fossum, Bjöörn. "Communication in the health service : two examples /." Stockholm : Karolinska inst, 2003. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2003/91-7349-667-7/.
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Harvey, Kevin. "Adolescent health communication: a corpus linguistics approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491000.
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This study reports on a corpus analysis of a one million word collection of adolescent health emails submitted to an online health forum, the Teenage Health Freak, a UK-based website which provides evidence-based health advice and information for young people. The corpus approach to linguistic analysis integrates both quantitative and qualitative techniques, affording a reliable means of identifying trends and patterns of communication. By examining the common ways in which adolescents construct their health concerns to professionals online, this study aims to describe commonalities in young people's accounts of health, specifically sexual and mental health, thereby giving voice to an age group whose subjective experiences of health and illness nave often been overlooked in favour of older generations.
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Collins, Sarah Frances. "Communication and strategy in health care consultations." Thesis, University of York, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431649.
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Walker, William Bruce. "Computer mediated communication for health behavior change." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49906.
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A computer-mediated communication (CMC) system oriented towards changing health-related behavior was developed and evaluated. Stress management training was used to demonstrate the basic technology. Formative research and pilot-testing was conducted, to identify psychological and communication variables that are potentially critical to facilitating behavior change through the CMC medium. The resulting system was used to compare two forms of CMC training with face-to-face intervention: CMC Intensive Intervention (CII) and CMC Non-Intensive Intervention (CNI), with 9 matched subjects per treatment condition.
CII subjects used their personal computers and modems to exchange messages with a therapist (the author), as well as to interact with automated system functions. Such functions included cognitive/behavioral assessment, l recording of self-monitored progress in applying specific and general coping strategies to managing stress, and instantaneous graphic and verbal feedback on such progress.
The CNI form of intervention relied primarily on message exchanges with the therapist, and presentation of general information on stress management. The face-to-face (FFI) treatment was a "traditional" stress management workshop, comprising weekly one-hour sessions over a six-week period. FFI subjects’ assessment, information presentation, self-monitoring, and feedback were analogous to their CII counterparts.
Major findings were that the CII treatment was as effective as the FFI treatment, while the CNI intervention was less effective than the other two treatments, through 3 months follow-up. This finding suggests that active involvement of subjects in practicing specific coping strategies may be critical to efficacious intervention through the CMC medium.
Other findings were that: (1) The CMC message-exchange function can establish a "client-therapist relationship", which potentially overcomes a limitation of "computerized treatment" identified by previous researchers. (2) CMC-based intervention, at least for stress management-related problems, appears to be more cost-effective than face-to-face intervention, for individual treatment but not for group treatment. Implications for extensions to other types of behavior-change intervention and research are discussed.Ph. D.
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Theisen, Christine E. "HEALTH COMMUNICATION AT THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1007746157.
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Collier-Stone, Janae. "Advertisements, Health, and Race: A Content Analysis of Health-related Advertisements in Women's Magazines." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065834.
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Morton, Thomas A. "Mass communication, interpersonal communication, and health risk perception : reconsidering the impersonal impact hypothesis from a communication perspective /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18683.pdf.
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Gerbensky, Kerber Anne E. "Organizing for Health: A Poststructural Feminist and Narrative Analysis of a School Health Committee." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1311776134.
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Murray, Tina M. "Virtual Communities as a Health Information Source: Examining Factors that Predict Individuals' Use of Social Media for Health Communication." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1411753982.
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Bornman, Magda. "Digital media as communication tools for health promotion in managed health care." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07132006-105048/.
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Reis, Nélida Beatriz Caldas dos. "Adaptação cultural da ferramenta Health Communication Assessment Tool." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22132/tde-29112017-194112/.
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A simulação clínica tem sido compreendida como uma prática segura e reflexiva durante o processo ensino/aprendizagem em enfermagem. Ademais, a simulaçãopode ser uma oportunidade para que o estudante de enfermagem desenvolva habilidades de comunicação.Contudo é ausente na literatura brasileira, uma ferramenta que avalie a comunicação verbal e não verbal do estudante em ambientes simulados.A Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT), ferramenta desenvolvida por pesquisadores americanos, difundida em algumas universidades e países, mostrou-se válida e confiável para tal demanda, e avalia a comunicação de estudantes de enfermagem em simulação clínica. O objetivo geral desse estudo é realizar adaptação cultural da ferramenta Health Communication AssessmentTool -HCAT, para o português brasileiro.Trata-se de uma pesquisa metodológica, autorizada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa envolvendo Seres Humanos. A Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT) trata-se de uma escala composta por 24 afirmações - alterada pelos autores originais para 22 afirmações, durante o curso desta pesquisa - que busca avaliar o uso ou falta de uso de comportamentos de comunicação interpessoal e de comunicação em saúde(verbal ou não verbal).Foi utilizado o referencial teórico metodológico de Guillemin, Bombardier e Beaton (1993) aprimorado por Ferrer et. al (1996): a) tradução inicial para língua portuguesa; b) avaliação pelo Comitê de Juízes; c) retrotradução; d) avaliação semântica dos itens; e) pré-teste e análise das medidas adaptada,a qual será realizada em estudo posterior. O estudo foi desenvolvido em uma instituição de ensino superior pública do estado de São Paulo. A etapa de tradução inicial para língua portuguesa foi realizada por dois tradutores, de forma independente, dando origem à primeira versão consensual em português, a qual foi composta por 16 afirmações da tradução versão 1, cinco da tradução versão 2, e as demais afirmações (09, 11, 4 20) foram idênticas entre as traduções. Em seguida, a primeira versão consensual em português foi submetida à avaliação por um Comitê de Juízes para verificação de equivalências semânticas, idiomáticas, culturais e conceituais entre a versão original e a versão brasileira; nesta etapa houve mais de 80% de concordância entre os juízes em todas as afirmações, dando origem à segunda versão consensual em português. A retrotraduação foi submetida à avaliação dos autores finais, os quais sugeriram a exclusão de duas afirmações para adequação da ferramenta à nova versão em inglês. Para a avaliação semântica, participaram 10 professores de enfermagem, distribuídos entre a região Nordeste (2), Sudeste (4) e Sul (4), os quais foram convidados por e-mail e avaliaram semanticamente cada uma das afirmações da versão brasileira do HCAT. Todos os itens obtiveram avaliação de concordância acima de 80%, com exceção da \'afirmação 8\'que obteve 70 %. O pré-teste e análise das medidas adaptadas, não realizadas nesse estudo, se constituem na finalização do processo de validação do HCAT para o Brasil. A ferramenta deverá ser utilizada por uma amostra representativa de professores de enfermagem/ou educadores que atuam em simulação clínica. A versão brasileira do HCAT foi considerada adaptada culturalmente para o Brasil e poderá ser útil para avaliar a capacidade comunicativa dos estudantes de enfermagem durante cenários de simulação clínicaClinical simulation has been understood as a safe and reflexive practice during the teaching/learning process in nursing. In addition, the simulation can be an opportunity for the nursing student to develop communication skills. However, there is no tool to evaluate verbal and nonverbal communication of the student in simulated environments in the Brazilian literature. The Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT) is a tool developed by American researchers, disseminated in some universities and countries, proved to be valid and reliable for such demand, and evaluates the communication of nursing students in clinical simulation. The general objective of this study is to develop a cultural adaptation of the Health Communication Assessment Tool -HCAT to Brazilian Portuguese. This is a methodological research, authorized by the Research Ethics Committee involving Human Beings. The Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT) is a scale compounded by 24 statements - altered by the original authors to 22 statements during the course of this research - that seeks to evaluate the use or lack of use of interpersonal communication and communication behaviors in health (verbal or nonverbal). In order to develop the cultural adaptation, the theoretical-methodological frame work elaborated by Guillemin, Bombardier and Beaton (1993) and enhanced by Ferrer et al. (1996) was used: a) initial translation from the original to Portuguese; b) evaluation by the Judges Committee; c) back-translation; d) semantic evaluation of the items; e) pre-test and analysis of the adapted measures which will be carried out in later study. This research was developed at a public higher education institution in the state of São Paulo. The initial translation to Portuguese was done by two translators, independently, giving rise to the first consensual version in Portuguese, which consisted of 16 statements of the first translated version, 05 of the second translated version, and the other statements (09, 11, 4, 20) were identical in both the translations. Afterwards, the first consensual version in Portuguese was submitted to a Judges Committee for evaluation of semantic, idiomatic, cultural and conceptual equivalences between the original version and the Brazilian version; at this stage there was more than 80% agreement among the judges in all the statements, resulting in the second consensual version in Portuguese. The back translation was submitted to the final authors for evaluation, who suggested the exclusion of two statements in order to adapt the tool to the new version in English. In what concerns the Semantic Evaluation, 10 nursing professors distributed among the Northeast (2), Southeast (4) and South (4) of Brazil were invited by e-mail and semantically evaluated each of the statements of the Brazilian version of the HCAT. All items showed an agreement in evaluation above 80%, with the exception of the statement \"8\" which had 70% agreement. The pre-test and analysis of the adapted measures, not developed in this study, represent the completion of the validation process of HCAT for Brazil. The tool shall be used by a representative sample of nursing teachers or educators who work in clinical simulation. The Brazilian version of the HCAT was considered culturally adapted to Brazil and can be useful to evaluate the communicative ability of nursing students during clinical simulation scenarios
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Piculell, Erik. "Technology-based Health Communication within the Home Environment." Licentiate thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för hälsa, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-21220.
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Background: To be able to live independently, older persons can use technology-based health communication (HC) for support, guidance, and contact with health care professionals within their home environment. Informal caregivers who assist in different situations can also find support in their caring role using technology. The study of mobile technologies is an important research area in gerontechnology. Nevertheless, there is a gap of research in technology-based HC utilized by older persons, including preferences related to cognitive impairment (CI) in a home environment. Aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to define the concept and describe experiences of HC within the home environment from a gerontechnological perspective. The aim of Study I was to identify and construct the meaning of HC from the perspective of older persons in need of care in the home environment and their informal caregivers. The aim of Study II was to describe how older persons with CI experienced technology-based HC through the use of a mobile application in order to facilitate a sense of coherence. Method: This thesis has a naturalistic approach. In Study I, the evolutionary model of concept analysis was used, based on a systematic literature review including 29 studies. In Study II, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 older persons with CI. The transcripts were analyzed with a deductive thematic analysis. Findings: The defining attributes of the concept HC identified in Study I were: Resources of the recipient, Influence on decisions, and Advantages of tailored information. These attributes led to the following descriptive definition of HC: Tailored information, based on needs and resources of the recipient influence care decisions. The findings of Study II resulted in an overall theme: A technology that supports but creates challenges. Further, the analysis yielded the following three themes, with associated subthemes: Making sense of mobile technologies, Mastering mobile technologies, and Added value to use mobile technologies. Conclusion: Technology-based HC utilized by older persons and their informal caregivers within the home environment emphasizes suiting needs, capacity and preferences to be considered useful. Influences of the context, the home environment also needs to be taken into account when developing technology-based HC and mobile technologies for this purpose.
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Tago, Pacheco Damian. "Essays in Animal Health Economics and Risk Communication." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU10002/document.
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Cette thèse est un effort pour améliorer la façon dont l'analyse économique est menée dans les domaines de la santé animale (chapitres 1 et 2) et la communication des risques (chapitre 3). Le chapitre 1 vise à évaluer les coûts de la politique de restriction de mouvement (MRP) au cours de l'épidémie de BTV-8 2006 en France pour les producteurs de broutards (veaux 6- 9 mois charolais sevrés (BWC)). Les producteurs de BWC représentent un secteur important de l'industrie de la viande bovine française et ils peuvent être gravement touchés par les restrictions de mouvement. Le change dans le nombre de BWC vendu lies aux restrictions de mouvement est estimé en utilisant une approche « matching » multidimensionnelle, et l'effet économique de la MRP est évalué en fonction de plusieurs scénarios qui décrivent les contraintes de capacité de fermes, le coût d'alimentation, et le prix de vente de l'animal. Les coûts associés à cette politique sont la motivation pour le chapitre 2, dans lequel le comportement stratégique des agriculteurs est incorporé dans un modèle épidémiologique Susceptible-Infectés au niveau de la ferme, tels que le MRP peut déclencher des ventes prématurées par des fermes à haut risque qui réduit significativement l'efficacité de la politique. Dans la propagation d'une maladie infectieuse, les revendeurs et les marchés de bétail fonctionnent comme des amplificateurs depuis: 1) ils sont impliqués dans des activités commerciales presque chaque semaine; 2) ils ont des transactions avec un grand nombre d'exploitations. Un raisonnement similaire est utilisé dans un cadre très différent, celui de la communication des risques. Dans le chapitre 3, un modèle utilisant des outils de réseaux sociaux est introduit pour analyser l'efficacité de différentes stratégies de communication des risques tenant en compte des contraintes budgétaires. À la fin du chapitre, les avantages de ciblage spécifique sont illustrés par rapport à les risques sanitaires de la consommation d'eau du robinet à Nogales, AZThis thesis is an effort to improve the way economic analysis is conducted in the fields of animal health (chapters 1 and 2) and risk communication (chapter 3). Chapter 1 aims at evaluating the costs of the movement restriction policy (MRP) during the 2006 BTV-8 epidemic in France for the producers of 6- 9 month old charolais beef weaned calves (BWC). The producers of BWC represent an important sector of the French beef industry and they can be severely affected by movement standstills. The change in the number of BWC sold that was due to the movement restrictions is estimated using a multivariate matching approach, and the economic effect of the MRP is evaluated based on several scenarios that describe farms’ capacity constraints, feeding prices, and the animal’s selling price. The costs associated to such policy are the motivation for chapter 2, in which the strategic behavior of farmers is incorporated into a susceptible-infected epidemiologic model at the farm-level, such that the MRP can trigger premature sales of high-risk farms that significantly reduce the efficacy of the policy. In the spread of an infectious disease, dealers and livestock markets work as amplifiers since: 1) they are involved in trading activities almost every single week; 2) they have transactions with a large number of farms. A similar reasoning is used in a very different framework, the one of risk communication. In chapter 3, a model using social network tools is introduced to analyze the effectiveness of different risk communication strategies under budget constraints. At the end of the chapter the benefits of specific targeting are illustrated by an application to the health risks of consuming tap water in Nogales, AZ
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Phelps, Shannon. "Understanding and Promoting Parent-Child Sexual Health Communication." UKnowledge, 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsc_etds/31.
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Parent-child sexual health communication (PCSHC) can have a positive impact on adolescents’ sexual health choices, outcomes, and capabilities for communicating with others about sexual health. Many parents are hesitant and feel unprepared for and uncomfortable with communicating about sexual health with their children. Other parental factors as well as child factors can impact the quality, frequency, coverage, and effectiveness of PCSHC. Some adolescent sexual health outcomes have improved, however, teen birth rates in the United States are elevated compared to other developed countries and half of all sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnoses are made to adolescents and emerging adults. This emphasizes the importance of PCSHC as a protective factor for children and opportunity for them to develop understanding and skills for good sexual health decision-making. While challenging to recruit and retain participants, parent sex education programming designed to promote PCSHC can instill a sense of parental necessity and responsibility, and equip parents with knowledge and skills to confidently and successfully engage their children.
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) provided the framework for this mixed methods study designed to learn more about PCSHC, differences in PCSHC based on gender of children, parental beliefs about PCSHC, intentions for and actual engagement in PCSHC. Included in the literature review for this study is a systematic review of literature focused on parent education programming designed to improve PCSHC. Parents of children in grades 4 – 11 completed a pencil/paper or an electronic Qualtrics baseline survey containing questions about their perceptions of and engagement in PCSHC. The quantitative data collection instrument included items measuring TPB constructs of behavioral, normative, and control beliefs, intentions for and actual engagement in PCSHC and condom use instruction delivery, communication openness, communication ability, sexual health topics discussed with children, and respondents’ demographics Many of the respondents (N = 205) were residents of the program target community, Winchester/Clark County, Kentucky, and were eligible to participate in parent programming, as were all residents that were parents of children in grades 4 – 11. The program, I’ll Have a Side of Sex Education, was designed as a six-week series of 50 minute lunch time sessions with the intention to improve parents’ sense of comfort, confidence, and skills in communicating with their children in general, and particularly about sexual health. Of the 205 parents who completed the baseline survey, 50 enrolled in and attended some or all of one of five offerings of the six-week parent education series and were invited to complete a post-program and six-week follow up surveys. Post-program data were collected with a paper- pencil survey and six-week follow up data were collected with a Qualtrics survey.
The systematic review of parent sex education literature provided insight into components of programming related to successful program delivery and positive parental outcomes. The systematic analysis of the baseline data including examining PCSHC factors from the parental perspective and how these related to the gender of children and determining the usefulness of the TPB constructs for understanding PCSHC Results of Chi-square tests of mean differences showed a significant difference in parents actually providing their children with instructions for correct condom usage, χ2(2, N = 203) = 6.96, p = 0.03, and MANOVA results revealed the degree to which parents address certain sexual health topics with their children related to the gender of their children. Results of logistic regression showed behavioral beliefs having the greatest predictive power of parents’ intentions to give condom use instructions (p < 0.01) and actual delivery of condom use instructions (p = 0.04) and engagement in PCSHC, generally (p = 0.03).
The current study contributes to the greater body of literature addressing parental and child factors related the promotion, delivery, and effectiveness of PCSHC and parent education programming designed to improve the quality, frequency, and impact of PCSHC. Its findings expand our understanding of how gender of children and parental beliefs relate to PCSHC and lend themselves to the consideration of the greater social influences impacting parents’ ability and motivation to engage their children in communication about sexual health. Differences in communication based on gender of children signal to a double standard in the messaging about sexual health and behaviors related to gender and these discrepancies leave adolescents and emerging adults, both males and females, vulnerable at worst to poor sexual health choices and outcomes and at least to being undereducated about sexual health topics. Although these findings give little support for the overall TPB model contributing to the understanding of parental intentions and behavior related PCSHC, the relationship between behavioral beliefs informed by attitudes about the value of PCSHC and parental intentions and behaviors does provide insight to health promoters and educators. Assessing parental attitudes toward PCSHC and tailoring messages and educational opportunities that may improve these attitudes and motivate parents to engage in and seek support for effective PCSHC holds promise. The piloting of a parent education program adapted from a previously evaluated parent sex education programming and the summative evaluation offered by participants gives support for efforts on the part of health promotion and education professionals to invest time, energy, and resources into program design and delivery and recruitment and retention of parents.
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Catalán, Matamoros Daniel Jesús. "Health Communication –a health content analysis of the main national Swedish newspapers from a Public Health perspective." Thesis, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3237.
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The mass media are a powerful way to disseminate health information to the entire population. Newspapers are the media with most impact in Sweden and can convey health news and breakthroughs more thoroughly than television or radio, and more quickly than magazines. Newspapers in Sweden have a high amount of readers compared with other European countries. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the space related to health found in the Swedish newspapers and to discuss what readers consume about health. This study is based on an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, inductive reasoning and quantitative scientific approach. The sample was constituted by daily editions from three major Swedish newspapers selected during one month –Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Göteborgs-Posten. The main findings show that newspapers included 2.4% on the average of health contents (HC), being Svenska Dagbladet the one with most publications (3.3%). HC used to be published within the first pages, the median is in page 13 and the main mode in page 4. 81.3% of all contents were written by journalists, and, in 73.6% of all contents, writers used sources of information. Most frequent topics were 25 about cancer, 19 about alcohol, 19 about euthanasia and 19 about sick leave at work. Besides, contents dealt with the following main public health areas: 105 with health management, 100 with health policy and 90 with epidemiology. Newspapers in Sweden are clear ways of delivering health information to the population and they might influence to Public Health. Therefore, it’s a need to increase the number of health specialist journalistsMassmedia är ett av de viktigaste medlen att informera allmänheten om hälsofrågor. I Sverige är morgontidningar det mest trovärdiga mediet och kan informera om hälsonyheter med mer noggrannhet än TV eller radio och snabbare än veckotidningar. Dagstidningar har i Sverige en större mängd läsare än de flesta länder i Europa. ca 80 procent av befolkningen läser varje dag en dagstidning. Syftet med denna thesis är att analysera hur stor plats innehåll rörande hälsan har i svenska tidningar och debattera vilken typ av information om hälsa de svenska läsarna får via de tidningarna. Studien är baserad på en empirisk, beskrivande, tvärsnittsinriktad, induktiv och kvantitativ ansats. Undersökningen genomfördes på samtliga exemplar av de tre största svenska morgontidningarna under en månad. Studien visar att tidningarna hade 2,4 procent hälsonyheter i genomsnitt och av de tre var ”Svenska Dagbladet den tidning som hade mest material om hälsofrågor, (3,3%). Hälsoinnehåll brukade vara publicerad på de första sidorna (median var sidan 13 och ”the main mode” sidan 4). Artiklar om hälsa var till 81,3 procent skrivna av tidningarnas egna journalister. De vanligaste enskilda ämnena var cancer (25 st), alkoholproblem (19 st), dödshjälp (19st) och sjukanmälningar (19 st). De största sjukvårdsområdena var ”hälsoförvaltning” (105 st), hälsopolitik (100 st) och ”epidemiologi” (90st). Eftersom svenska tidningar är ett viktigt medium för hälsofrågor till allmänheten kan påverkan på sjukvården vara stor. Därför krävs att antalet specialiserade journalister inom detta område utökas
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Hagemeier, Nicholas E. "Community Activation, Collaboration, and Communication." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5418.
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The final speaker was Nick Hagemeier, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at East Tennessee State University shared his research experience on drug abuse prevention and insight into coalition involvement and next steps for policy and practice advancement to reduce substance abuse and misuse. His presentation entitled “Community Activation, Collaboration, and Communication” took JCPP member organization representatives on a journey through his experience in the field of substance abuse disorder treatment and advocacy. Hagemeier spoke about his role with the Prescription Drug Abuse Working Group, which has an interprofessional focus with monthly meetings on-campus and at community-based sites. The working group has developed multiple products through active involvement. Some of the products include: Coordination of Regional Task Force on Naloxone 75+ Educational Presentations to Stakeholders Continuing Medical Education Collaboration NIH/NIDA – funded DIDARP Research Team Health System Collaboration: Overmountain Recovery Services (MAT) Collaboration to promote storage and disposal on campus
Hagemeier then discussed the work of the ETSU Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment. The Center encompasses four main areas: Administration Core, Patient Care, Education & Outreach, and Research & Evaluation. From these core areas, more detailed work with state contracts, proposals for research, health professions education, clinical training curricula, counseling services, opioid treatment program management, dissemination of products, policy and advocacy, partnership, and dissemination of products occur. Hagemeier shared media articles on the implementation of work from the Center and highlighted how the work of the Center impacts each phase of the timeline of opioid use disorder from non-use to death.
In closing, Hagemeier took the attendees back to school and walked through multiple case studies that highlight the research initiatives of the Center. One case study of note highlighted a pharmacist’s comfort in dispensing buprenorphine / naloxone, which noted only around half would dispense these items and even less would discuss addiction treatment goals with patients. He recapped the multiple policy, education, and practice issues that he has experienced and noted that much more work is needed to provide patients with adequate prevention and treatment programs.
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Willis, Laura Elizabeth. "Promoting Health Knowledge: The Impact of Public Relations Efforts on News Media Coverage of Health Research." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397730678.
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Banks, Tara. "Evaluation of an Interactive Health Communication Trans Fat Website." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/160.
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In order to evaluate the short-term educational and behavioral impact of the American Heart Association's "Face the Fats" web application had upon college students, a study involving 116 Utah State University undergraduate students was conducted. A one-group pre-posttest design was utilized to answer eight research questions focusing on: health risks associated with trans fat, general trans fat knowledge, ability to identify foods containing trans and saturated fats, food label information, healthy alternatives to trans fat, and readiness to change trans fat intake. Participants completed an online pretest survey and then viewed the "Face the Fats" website at their own pace. After viewing the website, participants completed an online posttest survey. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel. Statistical analysis of a paired sample t test revealed that "Face the Fats" was successful in changing the general trans fat knowledge of participants (p = < 0.00). Results also showed participants increasing their knowledge of health risks associated with different types of fat (p = < 0.00). Knowledge of trans fat nutritional information on food labels also significantly increased (p = < 0.00) and participants were more able to name foods containing trans fat, although some confusion remained among foods that contained both saturated and trans fat. Using a chi-square test, it was found that participants were more likely to state they were seriously considering reducing trans fat intake within the next 30 days after viewing "Face the Fats" (p = < 0.00). Results of a paired sample t test also showed an increase in the impact that trans fat information had on participants' decision to purchase and consume food (p = < 0.00).
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Ricketts, Mitchell S. "The use of narratives in safety and health communication." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/416.
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Stevens, Samantha L. "Exploring the relationship between college student perceptions of on-campus health care brands, associated health care brand representatives, and visible." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163365.
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Generally, non-tattooed individuals assign less favorable characteristics to individuals with tattoos. This generalization tends to exclude celebrities, professional athletes, musicians, and others who pursue non-traditional professions. However, present research has largely neglected to consider whether or not the general opinion of tattoos can have an effect on the perception of an entire brand. The objective of the present study was to determine if the presence of a tattoo in a mock advertisement would affect the way an individual would evaluate the brand itself as well as its brand representative (i.e. the tattooed individual shown in the advertisement). Questionnaires were distributed and completed by 206 undergraduate students enrolled in a public university. The mock advertisements used focused on the university’s health clinic, located on campus. Participants were asked to evaluate the presentation of the brand in one advertisement and then to evaluate the skill and likeability of the brand representative featured in the second advertisement. The control group was not exposed to any tattoo stimuli, and the two experimental groups were exposed to varying degrees of tattoo visibility. The results demonstrated that while there was no difference in the way the control group and each experimental group perceived the advertisements, there was a significant difference in the way the two experimental groups (exposed to the tattoo stimuli) perceived the advertisements.
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Mueller, J. "Parents' communication to their primary school-aged children about mental health and ill-health." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2012. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/11175/.
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Although it is understood that stigma about mental ill-health emerges in middle childhood, and that parental communications are highly influential in children’s developing attitudes, almost nothing is known about the messages parents communicate to young children about mental health problems and how these might contribute to the perpetuation of stigma. This study aimed to address this gap in the literature by exploring parents' communications to their primary-school aged children around mental health and ill-health. Semi structured interviews were carried out with ten parents of children aged 7-11. Data collection and analysis was performed according to a Grounded Theory approach; a theoretical model was developed. The model highlights factors that govern parents’ communications to children about mental health issues, and the impact of this on communication purpose and approach. Parents’ communications were governed by the extent to which parents’ representations of ‘Them’ (mental illness) and ‘Us’ (mental health) overlapped or remained distinct. Communications about mental health were deliberate, comfortable, and aimed to promote child wellbeing, whilst unconscious processes driven by taboo meant communications about mental illness were characterized by avoidance, awkwardness, and ambivalence. Factors such as parent experiences, communication context, and child characteristics, fluidly influenced parents’ overlap of ‘Them’ and ‘Us’, and hence the purpose and approach of their communications to their children. Parents’ context-dependent conceptualizations of mental health and ill-health mean children are receiving complex verbal and non-verbal messages from parents, which may contribute to children’s development of stigmatized views via conscious and unconscious processes. Interventions and policy that harness parents’ existing understandings of mental wellbeing to promote a spectrum model of mental health and ill-health may lead to more open parent-child communication, increased help-seeking, and reduced stigma.
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Thomas, Nicola Jane Reid. "Restoring ecosystem health : - can science communication make a difference? /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18548.pdf.
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Escotorin, Soza Gloria Pilar. "Prosocial Communication Inquiry in collaboration with gerontology health professionals." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/125855.
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Aquesta tesi es situa en l´àmbit soci-sanitari gerontològic. Es parteix de l´idea que l´orientació
prosocial en forma d´interacció interpersonal i també cultural organitzacional, afavoreix el
benestar, la prevenció de la violència i és un factor protector d´una bona relació entre el
personal sanitari i els actors amb els que aquest personal interactua.
Per comprendre les dificultats i els mitjans de resposta des de la perspectiva de la comunicació
prosocial, es realitza una investigació qualitativa que utilitza tres fonts: a) el model funcional
helicoïdal; b) la bibliografia especialitzada sobre Comunicació Prosocial; b) i la pràctica, a
través d´un procés de consulta-formació amb professionals soci-sanitaris. El marc
epistemològic en el que van ser realitzades les sessions és la Participatory Action Research
(PAR).
Es van dur a terme 15 Grups de discussió (Focus Group), en els que han participat nou
professionals experts que procedeixen de diferents centres sanitaris. Les sessions van ser
gravades i gran part del material es va materialitzar en panels de visualització de les
aportacions del membres del grup. Tot aquest material es va elaborar d´acord amb un procés
d´anàlisi en tres fases, que incloïa nou passes. El resultat final es presenta com un model
interpretatiu que informa sobre les dificultats i els mitjans d´afrontament que deuen ser
considerats per promoure la comunicació prosocial en els contextos laborals considerats.
L´estudi ha estat subjecte a diverses llistes de verificació (checklist) per garantir la seva
credibilitat.
Com conclusions de la investigació i de transferència, es destaca la revisió exhaustiva de totes
les publicacions existents sobre Comunicació Prosocial.
Es proposa un model que articula els resultats de les conceptualitzacions prèvies amb les
contribucions actuals, proporcionant una síntesi integrada teòric-pràctica, única en l'àmbit dels
serveis socials i de salut en gerontología i de gran abast per a programes preventius
d'educació, formació i assessorament dirigit a professionals de salut.Esta tesis se sitúa en el ámbito socio-sanitario gerontológico. Se parte de la idea que la orientación prosocial en forma de interacción interpersonal y también cultural organizacional, favorece el bienestar, la prevención de la violencia y es un factor protector de una buena relación entre el personal sanitario y los actores con los que este personal interactúa. Para comprender las dificultades y los medios de respuesta desde la perspectiva de la comunicación prosocial, se realiza una investigación cualitativa que utiliza tres fuentes: (a) el modelo funcional helicoidal; (b) la bibliografía especializada sobre Comunicación Prosocial y; (c) la práctica, a través de un proceso de consulta-formación con profesionales socio-sanitarios. El marco epistemológico en el que fueron realizadas las sesiones es la Participatory Action Research (PAR). Se llevan a término 15 Focus Group, en los que han participado nueve profesionales expertos que proceden de distintos centros sanitarios. Las sesiones fueron grabadas y gran parte del material se materializó en paneles de visualización de las aportaciones de los miembros del grupo. Todo este material se elaboró de acuerdo con un proceso de análisis en tres fases, que incluía nueve pasos. El resultado final se presenta como un modelo interpretativo que informa sobre las dificultades y los medios de afrontamiento que deben ser considerados para promover la comunicación prosocial en los contextos laborales considerados. El estudio ha estado sujeto a diversas checklist de comprobación para ga-rantizar su credibilidad. Como conclusiones de investigación y de transferencia, se destaca la revisión exhaustiva y la síntesis teórico-aplicativa de todas las publicaciones existentes sobre Comunicación Prosocial. Se propone un modelo que articula los resultados de las conceptualizaciones previas con las contri-buciones actuales, proporcionando una síntesis integrada teórico-práctica, única en el ámbito de los servicios sociales y de salud en gerontología y de gran alcance para programas preventivos de educación, formación y ase-soramiento dirigido a profesionales del ámbito socio-sanitario.
The current doctoral dissertation belongs to the field of gerontology health professionals. The premise that underlies this contribution is that a prosocial orientation, behind interpersonal interactions and organizational cultures, should promotes wellbeing, prevent the enactment of violence, and be a protective factor by enhancing good relations among social-health professionals, individuals, and groups they interact with. From the approach of the Prosocial Communication and in order to understand the difficulties and mechanisms involved in the interactions, a qualitative research has been performed. Within this methodological framework three main sources were considered: (a) the functional helicoidally model; (b) the specialized literature on Prosocial Communication; and (c) the health professionals’ information that comes from the practice itself, in which process of inquiry and training were combined. Indeed, the epistemological framework in which these inquiry-training sessions were held is the named Participatory Action Research (PAR). A total of 15 Focus Groups were carried out, in which nine expert health professionals took part from different health centers. The sessions were recorded and a large part of results were evidenced using panels to display the contributions made by participants. Then, the material was analyzed in three phases, divided in nine different steps. The final outcome was an interpretative integrative model that informs about challenges and coping strategies that are needed in order to promote Prosocial Communication within the context of health care. Finally, to provide reliable evidences, the research has been subjected to an intense scrutiny by applying different checklists of assessment. Unambiguous conclusions and implications for practitioners are emphasised from the current dissertation. From an exhaustive revision of the existing literature, including scientific as well as non-scientific search engines, an integrative model of Prosocial Communication have been proposed. This model offered novel links between previous conceptualizations and current contributions, by providing a synthesis with theoretical-practical integrations, unique in the field of health and social services in gerontology. Educational preventive programs, training and counselling, which involves health professionals and caregivers, should gain from the new applied Model of Prosocial Communication.
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Pohja, Marjatta. "Motor cortex-muscle oscillatory communication in health and disease." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2005. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/laa/kliin/vk/pohja/.
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Md-Ulang, Norhidayah. "Communication of construction health and safety information in design." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9817.
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Occupational health and safety (H&S) is important to the design, construction, maintenance, refurbishment and demolition of buildings and facilities in all branches of industry, business and commerce. H&S issues have been a major consideration in construction. Far too many people get hurt, injured or die even though the situation has improved over recent years. Accident and fatality rates continue to be significantly higher than other industry sectors. Although all parties involved in the construction industry may address their respective responsibilities, the lack of integration between each organization often results in communication problems which jeopardize H&S. Of particular note is the communication during the design phase. All information pertaining to the project must be readily accessible for all parties, to ensure smooth and hitch-free project execution. This research reviews the challenges in the communication of health and safety information in the design phase of construction projects. It characterizes the various aspects of collaborative communications at this stage and highlights the problem area. The research was conducted in the UK based on a combination of qualitative research methods including literature review, interviews and analysis of focus group interviews data. Observations on documentation and interviews are used to investigate the current industry practice. The literature reviews revealed that communication industry is facing challenges with its communication system due to the nature of industry itself. The construction industry is a fragmented and complex industry with too many parties involved in a project. These parties come from various backgrounds and involved in the project in a temporary duration. The parties who become team members must be able to establish a relationship in such a short period of time and create a communication system that enables all of the parties to collaborate and interact with each other.
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Dewhurst, Anne. "Health professional-patient communication in relation to weight management." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/health-professionalpatient-communication-in-relation-to-weight-management(2228fbbc-e644-4514-9643-6ced0d1e58c5).html.
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Thesis title: Health Professional-patient communication in relation to weight managementBackground: Global obesity levels have doubled since 1980 and are expected to rise. It is associated with key health risks such as heart disease, some cancers and osteoarthritis and hence has considerable economic consequences for health care resources. Key policy guidelines recommend that all health professionals (HPs) should discuss weight management with their patients making every contact count. However, we know HPs find discussions about weight challenging due to lack of time, training and skills. Knee Osteoarthritis (KO) and obesity are inextricably linked and together with a rise in obesity levels and growing numbers of older citizens rates of KO are set to escalate. As obesity is the key modifiable risk factor for KO, discussions about weight are paramount. This thesis explored this relationship further from the perspectives of patient and HPs, focusing on KO as an exemplar condition where there is scope for improved weight management. Methods: Utilising qualitative methods, three studies were undertaken. Firstly, a systematic review and thematic synthesis was conducted of published literature of physicians' views and experiences of discussing weight management within routine clinical consultations, not specific to KO. Secondly, HPs' experiences of discussing weight in consultations with KO patients through semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 HPs. Interviews were audio recorded and analysed using TA. A final study recruited 25 overweight/obese patients with KO and investigated their experiences of talking about weight with HPs. Results: Overarching themes were identified across the studies. Firstly, HPs are pessimistic about patients' desire to lose weight and their capacity to help them. Several factors lead physicians and HPs to be reticent to accept responsibility for discussions about weight. Within routine consultations and between HPs and KO patients, weight was viewed as a sensitive topic. Both HPs and patients recognized the difficult cycle of pain, reduced mobility and weight gain. Patients with KO desire patient-centred (PC) care but, despite HPs recognizing its value, they do not receive it. Both physicians and HPs lack communication skills in weight management. Conclusions: The work undertaken in this thesis demonstrates that barriers preventing effective clinical interactions about weight identified in routine consultations still exist, even when two conditions such as KO and obesity are inextricably linked. Although HPs and patients hold similar understanding of these interrelationships and recognise the value of PC discussions, HPs struggle in effective behavior change talk. HPs expressed impatience with the efforts of their patients. To readdress this imbalance all consultations about weight should be PC. Both physicians and HPs were inadequately trained to discuss weight and patients' views supported this. HPs working with overweight patients should be trained in evidence-based behaviour change techniques and PC communication techniques to increase their confidence to support patients in weight management. Finally, health psychologists have the skills to both deliver and guide discussions about weight.
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Stonestreet, John Ryan. "A Confession of Miraculous Mythological Epistemology for Health Communication." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1412942733.
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Ortega, Maria F. "TV exposure and parent-child communication about health issues." Online access for everyone, 2004. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2004/M%5FOrtega%5F121504.pdf.
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Milton, Alyssa Clare. "Communication at the time of a mental health diagnosis." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15806.
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Background: The process of communication at the time of a mental health diagnosis is an important but under researched area in mental health settings. Aims: To understand the satisfaction levels, information requirements and support needs of people with a lived experience of diagnosis and what influences this. To explore what health professionals consider to be the barriers and facilitators to the communication process at the time of a mental health diagnosis. To synthesise strategies for support and best practice recommendations into a model of communication for use at the time of a mental health diagnosis. Methods: A systematic review (of 30 quantitative and qualitative papers), two qualitative studies (n=45 people with lived experience of diagnosis; n=19 health professionals) and two survey based quantitative studies (n=101 people with lived experience of diagnosis; n=131 health professionals) were undertaken. Results: There has been limited research into this area of mental health communication. The majority of individuals who experience a diagnosis want information; however, this is not always satisfactorily addressed. For clinicians, there was a lack of known specific health professional training programmes, and factors such as health professional background and confidence handling distress influenced beliefs and practice. Models of communication appraised by people with a lived experience of diagnosis were highly acceptable, however, consistently barriers, such as stigma and the need to address the changing circumstances of individuals, were identified as areas requiring further attention. The synthesised result is a more dynamic, multifaceted and less linear model of communication. Conclusion: Talking with an individual about a mental health diagnosis can be a non-linear, complex and changeable situation. The resulting model is offered to help further develop health professional communication training and support individuals at the time of mental health diagnosis.
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Mantilla, Stephanie Luz. "Invisible disability, public health, and visual social media communication." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29830.
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People with disability are routinely excluded from public health campaigns (Kavanagh, 2020) despite that they account for approximately one in six Australians (ABS, 2019). People with invisible disability are an often-overlooked sub-group despite that they account for an estimated 90% of people with disability (Attitude Foundation, 2018) and that many invisible disabilities overlap with ill health. This thesis illuminates how a critical focus on invisible disability can improve the representation of people with invisible disability and forge new pathways for their inclusion in health campaigns on visual social media. It offers a conceptualisation and an operational definition of invisible disability that it uses as a critical lens. The thesis grapples with how to represent invisible disabilities on Instagram before drawing on two Australian government Instagram health campaigns as case studies: the NSW Healthy Eating Active Living (2020) campaign and national Girls Make Your Move (2016) campaign. It draws on elements of Briggs and Hallin’s (2016) biocommunicability theory and the concept of economies of visibility to examine both campaigns and to demonstrate how people with invisible disability are often excluded from Instagram health advice. It highlights how some of these exclusions may be underscored by broader tensions between certain invisible disabilities and biomedical knowledge and/or biomedical professionals. In response, it offers theoretical and practical suggestions about how to improve the representation and inclusion of people with invisible disability in visual social media health communications. Ultimately, the thesis demonstrates that a critical focus on invisible disability can challenge normative conceptions of health and encourage creative representation and inclusion strategies on visual social media beyond straightforwardly visually representing invisible disabilities.
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Liegel, McKenzie, and Jodi L. Southerland. "Health Communication Strategies Among Non-Profit Organizations in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/206.
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Social media has several advantages over more traditional forms of mass communication, but many non-profit organizations (NPOs) are underutilizing social media as a communication platform. There is limited research on social media use among NPOs in rural Appalachia. The current study fills this gap in the literature by examining social media use among NPOs in rural Appalachian Tennessee. We conducted 20 semi-structured phone interviews with NPO representatives (President, CEO, Executive Directors) in an 8-county region of Appalachian Tennessee. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Thematic analysis indicated that rurality, organizational capacity, messaging, and social media as a secondary communication strategy were important themes. Fiscal, personnel, and time constraints were limiting factors in terms of NPOs ability to use social media. NPOs used social media primarily to share information with their target audience. While acknowledged as an important feature of social media, NPOs were less likely to use social media to advocate, engage, or mobilize community support. Further data collection is ongoing to confirm these findings and to identify best practices. NPOs in rural Appalachia can use these findings to enhance their communication strategies.
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Panasuk, Brian J. "Injection Safety Patient Notification Communication Toolkit." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/132.
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Unsafe injection practices put patients and healthcare providers at risk of infectious disease and have been associated with a wide variety of procedures and settings. Safe Injection Practices are part of Standard Precautions and are aimed at maintaining basic levels of patient safety and provider protections. However, from 1999 - 2009, more than 30 outbreaks of Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C from unsafe injection practices have occurred resulting in more than 150,000 patients being notified of potential exposure.
Breaches in injection safety have the potential to be high profile and sensitive, and although individual incidents may vary, the actions that follow are consistent and predictable. Therefore, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), I have compiled resources and templates to assist state and local health departments and individual healthcare facilities in their efforts to effectively communicate with the public and media about these incidents. Once the decision to notify patients has been made, this toolkit will serve as a guide to help the intended users through the notification process. Its purpose will be to help organizations notify patients, establish communication resources to support patient notifications, plan media and communication strategies, and plan the release of notification letters and other media.
This toolkit will suggest practical ways to achieve effective communication using a stepwise approach. Resources and example materials are provided in this toolkit to facilitate the implementation of some essential tips and strategies. Once finalized and cleared by the CDC, this toolkit will be available to users through the CDC’s Injection Safety homepage.
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Moon, Allison Jane. "Patient-provider Interactions: A Missing Piece of Health Literacy and Effective Use of the Health Care System." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1430232612.
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Albertyn, Leilahn. "A needs analysis of employee communication at a health insurance company." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2315.
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Thesis (MTech (Public Relations Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011.The purpose of this limited scope research study is to investigate the research question "What are the internal communication needs of the Cape Town based employees at Metropolitan Health Group?" The research will investigate whether the current internal communication practise/s and communication content at Metropolitan Health Group satisfy the needs of employees. The research will be informed by the Downs and Hazen (1977:72) factor analytic study of communication satisfaction which concluded that "the concept of satisfaction can be a useful tool in an audit of organisational communication."
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LaBelle, Sara. "Addressing the Role of Health Literacy in Social Science| The Revision and Validation of the Perceived Oral Health Literacy Scale." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618117.
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The purpose of this dissertation was twofold. The first purpose was to develop a valid and reliable measurement of health literacy appropriate for use in social science. The second purpose was to determine whether health literacy is a skill set that can be increased through the intervention efforts of communication studies scholars. These purposes were addressed across four studies. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis provided support for a 26-item revised Perceived Oral Health Literacy Scale (LaBelle & Weber, 2013) which assesses individuals' Motivation and Ability to gain access to, understand, and use health information in order to promote and maintain good health. Conceptually, this measure is consistent with the definition of health literacy put forth by the World Health Organization (2014), thus offering evidence of its content validity. Empirically, the results across the four studies provide strong evidence for the validity of the revised POHLS. Evidence for construct validity was provided by the measures positive relationships to patient self-efficacy, response efficacy and perceived health competence, while also being negatively related to trait and dyadic communication anxiety. Further evidence of construct validity was suggested by known groups differences in the POHLS scores obtained between individuals who had completed a semester long course in Health Communication and those who had completed a course in an unrelated topic. Evidence for the criterion- related validity of the measure was not supported, as the revised POHLS was not related to individuals' physiological indicators of health or stage of readiness to change behaviors related to obesity and diabetes prevention. The results of a pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design did not provide support for the effectiveness of a brief educational intervention to increase individuals' health literacy; however, the known-groups assessment offers support to conduct further research on this topic. Taken together, these results provide support for the revised POHLS as a reliable and valid measure of health literacy appropriate for use in social science research.
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LaBarge, Monica Claire. "Integral affect and attitude strength in health communications /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421612801&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-197). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Eriksson-Backa, Kristina. "In sickness and in health : how information and knowledge are related to health behaviour /." Åbo : Åbo Akademis Förlag / Åbo akademi university press, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb393008904.
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Setianegara, Billy Som-Arch Wongkhomthong. "Assessment of knowledge, attitude and communication practice of the health personnel in health card programme /." abstract, 1988. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2531/31E-Billy-S.pdf.
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Suthers, Amber L. "Evaluating Effective Communication Methods: Improving Internal Communication." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3293.
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Relaying information from a Chief Communications Officer (CIO), or centralized communications departments to hospital employees is not always efficient or effective. Employees may not be informed of important changes to department protocols or hospital policies. The purpose of the study was to determine the most efficient and effective forms of internal communications in the hospital setting.
A total of 83 surveys were mailed to communication officers working in Tennessee hospitals in and east of Nashville. Sixteen communication officers responded. This low response rate may be attributed to poor designation of communication responsibilities and an abdication of responsibilities to an off campus (corporate) source. One significant difference was found regarding the preference of supervisor contact to relay feedback in the age groups of 31-40 and 51-60. Those 31-40 were less likely to prefer direct supervisor contact as their favored communications channel as opposed to 51-60 year olds who favored this method.
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Naui, Elizabeth. "Transculrural [i.e. Transcultural] health communication in action : Emerging health pratices of Filipino immigrants in the French Riviera." Thesis, Nice, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NICE2032/document.
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La France n’a pas encore de système de collecte d’informations sur les immigrants standardisé. Ainsi, l’état de santé des immigrants est, aujourd’hui encore, déterminé de manière irrégulière. La seule information de santé des immigrants disponible correspond au statut de santé déclaré par l’immigrant. Ceci est à la fois problématique et surprenant car la France est considérée comme une des nations au monde à avoir le meilleur système de santé malgré le manque de données concrètes sur l’état de santé des immigrants. Une question se pose alors : « comment les immigrants se fraient un chemin dans le système de soin français ? ».Les Philippins vivant dans le sud de la France sont la cible de cette étude. Cette étude utilise le sondage, le « Key Informant Interview » et l’observation directe pour rassembler des données afin de comprendre comment leur culture et leur langage maternel interfèrent avec le système de soin français.Dans cette étude, l’hypothèse émise était que le langage est une barrière pour les immigrants Philippins cherchant l’accès aux soins médicaux. De plus, la culture traditionnelle de santé joue aussi un rôle important dans la pratique de santé des Philippins, même si ces derniers sont en France depuis de nombreuses années. Ils ont réussi malgré tout, à s’adapter au système de soin français. Cependant, cette adaptation doit être clairement identifiée et décrite. A l’interface de la culture, du langage et du système de sin de santé du pays d’accueil, les immigrants, consciemment ou non, créent une culture de santé émergente, différente de leur culture d’origine, qui identifie mieux un bon ou un mauvais état de santé ainsi que la manière de l’exprimer.Cette étude révèle que malgré le temps passé dans le sud de la France, la culture de santé traditionnelle des Philippins joue toujours un rôle dans leur pratique de santé. Les problèmes de santé sont toujours une affaire de famille. Ainsi certains médicaments sont importés des Philippines. D’un autre côté, ils profitent aussi des avantages du système de soin de santé français. Ils rendent visite à leur docteur plus souvent, ils prennent religieusement leurs médicaments et ils profitent des nombreuses options de traitements disponibles en France. Ils peuvent profiter de tout cela parce qu’ils sont couverts par le système universel d’assurance maladie français.D’un autre côté, les immigrants Philippins restent des patients passifs. A cause de la langue qui reste encore une barrière, leur comportement vis à vis de médecin est fait de hauts et de bas. Les Philippins sont d’un naturel timide. Ainsi ils essayent toujours de ne pas avoir de longues conversations. Ceci reste un défi pour les professionnels de santé qui ne sont ni formés ni préparés à gérer des patients parlant un langage étrangerFrance is yet to have a standardized immigrant health data collectionsystem. As such, data of immigrants’ health is still irregularly determined. Theclosest immigrant health data available is the self-reported status of health. Thisis a both a problematic state and surprising because France enjoyed the title ofbeing one of the countries in the world with best health care system despite thelack of concrete immigrant health data. This put into question how immigrants aremoving around the health care system of France.Filipino immigrants living in the South of France are the main respondentsof this research. Focusing on how their native culture and language interplay withthe health system of France, this study utilized Survey, Key Informant Interviewand Direct Observation to gather data.This research hypothesized that language is still a barrier for Filipinoimmigrants seeking medical care. In addition to this, the traditional health culturealso plays a very important part in the Filipino immigrants’ practice of healthdespite their long years of stay in France. Despite this however, they were ableto adopt to the French health care system however, this adoption needs to beproperly identified and described. Within the interplay of culture, language andthe health system of the host country, immigrants –knowingly or unknowinglycreatean emerging health culture that is distinct to their cultural origin,understanding of a good or bad state of health and manner of expression.This study revealed that despite the fact that Filipino immigrants in theSouth of France have been living here for a considerable amount of time,traditional health beliefs are still part of their health practices. Health matters arestill a family affair and there some of their medicines are imported from thePhilippines. On the other hand, they have also adopted some ways to takeadvantage of the French health care system. They visit their doctors more often,they religiously take their medications and they enjoy more treatment options.They were able to enjoy all these because they are covered by the UniversalHealth Insurance System of France.On the other hand, Filipino immigrants remain a passive patient. Hemaintains a come and go attitude with their medical providers because languageremains a barrier. In addition, Filipinos are natural shy people and they always trynot to have long conversations. This remains a challenge for healthprofessionals for they themselves are not properly trained and prepared tohandle patients speaking another language
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Pegue, Misty Lynn. "Practicing Technical and Scientific Communication in a Community Health Center." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272990135.
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