Tagged with: Health
Posts (24)
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Health communication changes lives by reaching millions
Sophia Wilkinson
Acting Head of Health and Resilience, 主播大秀 Media Action
To mark the launch of our Global Health Stories site, Sophia Wilkinson makes the case for health communication, which can make a big difference at scale and for less than the cost of a can of coke per person.
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Five questions our data portal can help answer
Sonia Whitehead
Head of Research Programmes, 主播大秀 Media Action
There's a lack of data on what ordinary people think, feel and want in developing countries. Our new Data Portal aims to help fix that.
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Using storytelling to make statistics accessible
Mahmuda Hoque
Research Officer, 主播大秀 Media Action (Bangladesh)
Bangladesh-based researcher Mahmuda Hoque explains how her team created a story about 鈥淢aya鈥�, a 19-year-old mother, to help bring their findings about antenatal preparations to life.
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Top five blogs of 2016
Melanie Archer
Digital Editor, 主播大秀 Media Action
Our most popular blogs of the year, featuring: discussion of alternatives to counter-propaganda, tips for successful health communication and recommendations of both development films to watch and Twitter accounts to follow.
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Community engagement and sexuality education in conservative contexts: the case of Pakistan
Dr Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli and Marina Plesons
WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research
How can community engagement be used to promote young people鈥檚 sexual and reproductive health in conservative countries? Two education programmes in Pakistan offer some answers.
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Five tips for success in health communication
Caroline Sugg
Director of Strategy and Partnerships
Five tips from public health experts on how to accelerate progress in global health communication.
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Why isn鈥檛 communication a greater public health priority?
Caroline Sugg
Director of Strategy and Partnerships
Caroline Sugg reflects on why communication is often a peripheral part of public health interventions, looking at challenges around evidence, the 鈥榤essy' nature of behaviour change and cultural differences within the field.
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We need to start talking about AIDS again
Caroline Sugg
Director of Strategy and Partnerships
In the early days of HIV, communication was at the heart of many successful prevention efforts but has never been fully integrated into the global response. Caroline Sugg explains why this needs to change, by explaining how a focus on behavioural and social change can help tackle current challen...
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Who to follow on Twitter if you鈥檙e interested in international development, media and communication
Melanie Archer
Digital Editor, 主播大秀 Media Action
A list of Twitter accounts covering governance, health and humanitarian affairs that are well worth following.
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Beware of the Pokemon: the not-so augmented reality of digital health and development
Yvonne MacPherson
Director, 主播大秀 Media Action USA
Through drawing parallels between Pokemon Go and how WhatsApp was used during the Ebola response, Yvonne Macpherson argues that low-tech solutions, which take advantage of what people already have to hand, are often more appropriate than high-tech alternatives.
