April issue of CDC’s Health Communication Science Digest

Dear colleagues,

The April issue of Health Communication Science Digest (HCSD or Digest) is now available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/ScienceDigest/index.html.

This month in the Digest several authors report on health communication campaigns and/or interventions conducted using a variety of media (Antonishak, et al.; Aventin, et al.; Ayala, et al.; Eden, et al.; Hofstetter, et al.; Larsson; Perez, et al.).

Health message design considerations (Haydarov & Gordon; Kim, et al.; Macario & Matiella) and message targeting and tailoring (Blake, et al.; Grootens-Wiegers, et al.; Landrine & Corral; Sheng & Simpon) are the focus of many writers.

Studies of risk communication (Brummette & Fussell Sisco; Nijkrake, et al.; Ott & Theunissen; Retzbach & Maier), health literacy (Curtis, et al.; Griffey, et al.), and new media health content (Abramson, et al.; Yang, et al.) are also detailed.

Please remember that you can access all issues of the “Health Communication Science Digest” series online via the searchable Health Communication Science Digest Archive.

We hope that you find the Health Communication Science Digest useful and invite you to provide us with feedback for improvement. Please send us articles that you would like to share with others—articles you or your colleagues have published or found useful.

Please send your comments and questions to HCSD@cdc.gov.

Doğan Eroğlu

Associate Director for Communication Science

Office of the Associate Director for Communication

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA