As institutions work to adapt to the COVID-19 global pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion around the utility of using a social norms approach to encourage people to use protective behaviors in mitigating the spread of the virus. Below are some resources to reference in working to create an effective social norms campaign [...]
The May 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 literacy initiatives (Duren-Winfield, et al.; Meppelink & Bol; Nouri & Rudd; Yamashita & Kunkel). Health communication campaigns and/or interventions, some yielding evidence of behavior change, are also detailed (Knowlden, et al.; Schwinn, et [...]
We've just added an important new resource: a complete archive of the Report on Social Norms, edited by Alan Berkowitz, PhD, published from 2002-2005. The 37 issues and working papers cover many important topics in social norms, including interventions on diverse health behaviors for diverse populations, summaries of conference presentations, and the perspectives of leading researchers. The Archive [...]
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, [...]
