Health Communication Resources
Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Goals
Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health.
National Cancer Institute’s Pink BookThis online book is a revision of the original Making Health Communication Programs Work, first printed in 1989, which the Office of Cancer Communications (OCC, now the Office of Communications) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed to guide communication program planning.
Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Goals
Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health.
National Cancer Institute’s Pink BookThis online book is a revision of the original Making Health Communication Programs Work, first printed in 1989, which the Office of Cancer Communications (OCC, now the Office of Communications) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed to guide communication program planning.
Guidance for Evaluating Mass Communication Health Initiatives: Summary of an Expert Panel Discussion
Evaluating Mass Communication Health Initiatives
Theory at a Glance
An Overview of Psychosocial Theories of Behavior Change
Annenberg Public Policy Center: Health Communication Research
PDF reports on domestic violence, suicide, drinking, smoking & drug
use.
Communicating the Future
Best Practices for Communication of Science and Technology to the
Public. Proceedings of a 2002 conference at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
Communicating Science News
A Guide for public information officers, scientists and physicians
prepared and distributed by The National Association of Science Writers.
Communicating Science to the Public
A Handbook for Researchers. Produced by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.
Glossary of Health Communication Terms
A resource provided for masters students in health communication,
Emerson College and Tufts University School of Medicine.
Journal of Health Communication
Tables of Contents available to all, full text of articles available
to subscribers only.
Patient Education and Counseling
Official Journal of EACH, the European Association for Communication
in Healthcare and AAPP, the American Academy on Physician and Patient
A Primer on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices
Written for health practitioners by the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
Science Communication: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal
"Science Communication unites international scholarly exploration
of three broad but interrelated topics: Communication within research
communities - Communication of scientific and technical information
to the public - Science and Technology communications policy."
