Health Communication Science Digest
From CDC, this series is designed to enhance awareness of emerging health communication and marketing scientific knowledge by providing you easy access to recently published articles and reports with particular relevance for the public health communication community.
Plain Language Tips and Tools
From the federal Plain Language Action and Information Network, plain language (also called plain English) is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it.
Research and Evaluation
From CDC’s Gateway to Health Communication and Social Marketing Practice, resources to assist in formative research and evaluation.
Places paid or public service messages in the media or in public spaces to increase awareness of and support for a product, service, or behavior.
Campaign Resources Database
From CDC NPIN, a searchable inventory of local, state, and national campaigns in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB prevention.
Use the following calendar of public health observance days to support your own editorial calendar, health communication initiatives, and disease prevention activities for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB.
Behavior change at individual and community levels can be complex to affect and measure. Using evidence-based health communication strategies and best practices can streamline and often improve behavior change initiatives for public health. Here you’ll find resources that can support your ongoing or upcoming health communication planning, research activities, disease prevention efforts, and program development and evaluation, including resources on topics like:
Nowhere are the divisions of race, ethnicity, and culture more sharply drawn than in the health of the people in the United States. Despite recent progress in overall national health, disparities continue in the incidence of illness and death among African Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders, as compared with the US population as a whole.
