Any good society with democratic principles of governance will evaluate its social experiments,
seeking to improve conditions of life and to make its evaluation procedures better. …

Mass media campaigns are widely used to expose high proportions of large populations to
messages through routine uses of existing media, such as television, radio, and newspapers. …

Importance The public health implications of e-cigarettes depend, in part, on whether e-cigarette
use affects the risk of cigarette smoking. Objective To perform a systematic review and …

OBJECTIVES. Adolescents are increasingly at risk for infection with human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases, especially in poor urban minority …

Recent decades have witnessed a growing emphasis on patients as active consumers of
health information. The literature about cancer-related information focuses on active and …

PURPOSE American television viewers see as many as 16 hours of prescription drug
advertisements (ads) each year, yet no research has examined how television ads attempt to …

The book, originally published by Longman in 1988,examines the history and evolution of
communication for development, as well as prospects for the future. Introductory comments …

There is a contradiction in the emerging evidence about the effects of public health education
and communication on health outcomes. Several large community trials have shown either …

OBJECTIVE: There is much research describing cancer patients’ information needs and their
use of the Internet, print media, and other sources to fulfill these needs. Yet little is known …

While databases are increasingly used for content analyses in mass communication and
journalism research, concerns about sampling error have been largely ignored. We introduce a …