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  • The Children of Africa Confront AIDS

    From Vulnerability to Possibility

    Edited by Arvind Singhal, Steve Howard ...
    Series Book 80 - Research in International Studies, Africa Series
    AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of ... Read more

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  • Entertainment-Education and Social Change

    History, Research, and Practice

    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of E-E ... Read more

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  • Health Communication

    Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

    Series Book 5 - Health Communication
    Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding global and ... Read more

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  • Entertainment-Education

    A Communication Strategy for Social Change

    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approach to communication is the process of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate to increase audience members' knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior. It uses the ... Read more

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  • Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes

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    Edited by Lauren B. Frank, Paul Falzone ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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    Series Book 29 - Handbooks in Communication and Media
    International in scope, The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social changeBrings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wide range of communication approaches in current global health programsOffers an ... Read more

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