Working on Health Communication

Book info: Working on Health Communication (Hardcover, 200 pages) – SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. Language: English.

Good communication is at the heart of strategies for effective health promotion and public health. At a time when lifestyle and preventable diseases are still on the rise, practitioners are in need of the skills to deliver effective health messages to the right audience, at the right time.

Responding to this demand, Working on Health Communication provides a practical guide to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns.

The book follows the campaign design process step-by-step. It covers every stage from selecting theoretical models and identifying the message and target audience, right through to running the campaign and evaluating its success. "Real-life examples" of actual campaigns are used throughout to show how theoretical ideas work in practice.

Working on Health Communication is ideal for students and practitioners in public health, health promotion and other health-related areas who are working on health campaigns.

Editorial Reviews Review ′Overall, this well-structured book is suitable for health professionals willing to take tips in designing a campaign or to hone their communication skills to deliver effective health messages...A comprehensive guide to health communication′ -
Current Science

′Corcoran′s text has crystal clear relevance to all front line practitioners who work to promote health. Using a logical ′can do′ approach and a wealth of illustrative examples, this book is both a practical guide and a resource for reviewing campaigns across a range of health domains′ -
Matthew Jones, University of West of England

"This well-structured book is suitable for health professionals willing to take tips in designing a campaign or to hone their communication skills to deliver effective health messages. Thus, this book is a comprehensive guide to health communicators." -- Megha Prakash ― Current Science vol 100:12 Published On: 2011-06-25 About the Author

Nova Corcoran is a senior lecturer in public health at the University of South Wales. She has worked as a lecturer for over 15 years and before that as a health promotion practitioner. Her research interests are in the effective design and delivery of health promotion and health communication, and she has published numerous studies within this area. She has also published two textbooks in the area of health communication titled Health Communication: Strategies for Health Promotion and Working on Health Communication.