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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Health campaigns"”.
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Let's talk about alcohol: The role of interpersonal communication and health campaigns
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Implicit and explicit attitudes: an examination of the efficacy of anti-sugar public health campaigns
… efforts, in the form of an anti-sugar public health campaign (PHC), influence consumer attitudes toward SSBs. In this context, one's self-reported attitude (ie, conscious, explicit attitude) may not accurately reflect one's ‘true' attitude (ie, subconscious, implicit attitude). Therefore, the …
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Enhancing health campaigns through environmental education: a case of the ‘keep Zambia clean and healthy’ programme
… Theory, the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Health Belief Model. A Mixed Methods approach was used to collect and analyse data. A questionnaire with a Likert scale was administered to 545 randomly selected participants in two low and four high density residential areas of Lusaka and Mumbwa. …
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Enhancing health campaigns through environmental education: a case of the ‘keep Zambia clean and healthy’ programme
… Theory, the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Health Belief Model. A Mixed Methods approach was used to collect and analyse data. A questionnaire with a Likert scale was administered to 545 randomly selected participants in two low and four high density residential areas of Lusaka and Mumbwa. …
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Rhetorical Bridges: How Rhetoric Affects the Gap Between Knowledge and Behavior Change
Health-communication campaigns have long operated according to the belief that individuals can be persuaded to change hazardous health practices through education about the risks or benefits of certain behaviors. Health-communication scholars and practitioners have ascribed to a theory of behavior …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
… due to gun violence. This violence is a public health burden resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence differently, either by strengthening …
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The Politics of Triage: International Aid and AIDS Care in Northern Uganda
… normative attitudes of HIV-status disclosure in health campaigns by demonstrating how HIV-positive people are facing new stigmas when they are incapable of being ‘productive citizens.’ As humanitarian aid leaves Uganda, HIV/AIDS NGOs seek to relieve the issue of aid dependency through development …
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The Influence of Culture on the Views of Black African/African-Caribbean Men Living In the UK Towards Cancer
… to social systems and establishments, such as healthcare systems. Clinical risk factors such as smoking and obesity had different meanings and symbolisation through black eyes. There were macro- and micro-level similarities and differences between BA and BAC men. Cancer-related services, such …
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Cultivating School Food Community: An Ethnography on Nutritional Wellbeing in a Calgary Public School
The nutritional health of Canadian children has declined over the last 30 years. Public health campaigns and health education programs have been developed to address increased rates of obesity and overweight in young people. Schools are popular sites for health education programming in this regard. …
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MASS MEDIA AND AIDS PREVENTION AMONG CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
… technique which further enhances efficiency of health campaigns.
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“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”
… trade policies, public policies and Mexico’s health policies. The key research questions are 1) why is there an obesity epidemic in Mexico? and 2) what remedies should Mexico implement to control it? This thesis contributes to a viable policy strategy for the Mexican government to control and …
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Assessing the Impact of the National Blueprint: Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older
… has increased our understanding of the impact of health campaigns on organizational change.
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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana
… became intricately interwoven into U.S. public health policy from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, as American acquisition and management of island territories heightened public fears of leprosy as a ""foreign"" contagion and shaped the creation of restrictive federal and …
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The Social Obligation to Reduce Stigma in Order to Increase Utilization of Mental Health Services
Many mental health organizations have developed campaigns that concentrate on reducing the stigma towards mental health with the intentions of increasing access and utilization for people with mental illnesses that are not receiving appropriate mental health services. The mental health campaigns …
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Tickborne Diseases in Long Island, New York
… tickborne infections are a major public health concern and a source of significant morbidity. Human-centric factors that influence tickborne disease risk include the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of individuals and communities. My study focused on Long Island, New York, a northeast …
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Radio Power: An exploration of agency for the participants of a climate change communication campaign in South Africa
… outcomes. While it has been effective in public health campaigns, it consistently fails at addressing more complex issues, or “wicked problems”, like as climate change. Inspired by agentic perspectives in development studies and the potential of radio as a critical thinking development, dialogue, …
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SICKLE CELL CARRIER SCREENING FOR ADOLESCENTS IN SAUDI ARABIA: A MIXED-METHODS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE
… carrier status, which poses potentially serious health implications for future children. A possible preventive measure is early carrier screening for adolescents to help families arrange their marriages. However, little is known about how Saudi families would perceive such a program. A two-phase, …
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Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
… availability – is a rising threat to global health and has increased in recent years in higher income countries. This is a complex phenomenon with the potential to undo decades of progress toward eradicating communicable diseases. The recent COVID-19 pandemic introduced a new wave of vaccine …
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Hispanic cultural considerations in acute stroke care
… underrepresented group faces medical and health disparities that make their disease burden disproportionally high. For stroke, this burden presents as increased incidence and increase negative outcomes. This burden is partially due to Hispanics taking longer to present to the hospital with …
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Euphemistic rhetoric in advertising during the Comstock Era: the importance of persona and cultural context in the Lysol case
… time period. Ads encouraged women to stay young, healthy, and “dainty” for their husbands and families. The campaign relied on aspirational images of women who douched with Lysol as wealthy, healthy, and desired in long-term romantic marriages. Negatively toned ads warned women of the consequences …
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