Health Communication Resources

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
A guide on science communication for public information officers, scientists and physicians prepared and distributed by The European Commission Directorate-General for Research.

Communicating Science to the Public
A handbook for researchers. Produced by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Evaluating Mass Communication Health Initiatives
Results of discussion by an expert panel convened by the Centers for Disease Control.  Addresses: 1) the role of theory in the evaluation of health communication programs and campaigns, (2) recommended evaluation methods, strategies and statistical issues, (3) coping with budget constraints, (4) considerations pertaining to health disparities and minority populations, and (5) public policy.

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.

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 Book
This 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.

National Cancer Institute's Theory at a Glance
An Overview of Psychosocial Theories of Behavior Change

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."

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