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Center for Health and Risk Communications UGA Grady College

WebHealth protection messages may be delivered through traditional mass media, interactive new technologies or through interpersonal contact. Clear and timely communication between health service providers and individuals seeking health information, treatment or support can improve the quality and effectiveness of care.

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Strategic Health & Risk UGA Grady College

WebThe Strategic Health & Risk Communication certificate prepares students to better meet the evolving health needs of society at large and use their health promotion and/or communication skills in an applied manner. The program will culminate in a capstone course in which students will create a public health communication campaign for a community

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University of Georgia introduces Strategic Health & Risk …

WebThe SHRC certificate program is an 18-hour credit program featuring specialized classes from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations in Grady College and the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior in the College of Public Health. The curriculum includes foundational courses in health communications as well …

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Effective Communication Management in a Public Health Crisis: …

WebHealth communication executives heavily relied on their past health communication experiences, which led to nuanced understandings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretically, the contingency theory is furthered via an implied theoretical linkage between the construct of general external climate and the construct of external publics.

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Health & Medical Journalism

WebAlex Anteau, a student in the Health and Medical Journalism master’s program, spoke with Grady Newsource reporter Shaelyn Carroll and digital producer Ballard Ackaway about their coverage of mask and vaccine mandate protests. UGA Student Writing, Uncategorized Alex Anteau, interviews, mandates, masks, protests, student writing.

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Vaccine hesitancy persists among parents

WebPublic health, medical community must continually invest in vaccine education. Another challenge in building vaccination acceptance and reducing vaccine hesitancy is that the population of parents with children who need vaccines is ever changing. “Every single day, new parents are coming online, so efforts to improve vaccination …

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More adults likely to get a flu vaccination than receive an updated

WebVaccination intentions highest for liberal, lowest for conservative respondents. Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults reported that they would “definitely” or “probably” get a recommended influenza vaccination in the coming months, while 46% plan to receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to findings from a national survey of 1,280 adults …

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UGA and UMD researchers partner to explore strategies for …

WebThe research team will recommend best practices for how public health agencies can combat health misinformation for the COVID-19 pandemic and future threats. The team defines misinformation as a claim of fact that is false due to a lack of scientific evidence or conflicting scientific evidence. The researchers will conduct online …

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NIH awards $4 million grant to Emory University and University of

WebSun Joo “Grace” Ahn named co-director of Center for Children’s Health Assessment, Research Translation and Combating Racism. Many Black communities in Metro Atlanta face high levels of environmental exposures that can negatively impact the health of Black children, and scientists are faced with the challenge of effectively …

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Communicating about Infectious Disease Threats: Insights from …

WebAbstract: The public health communication challenges that arise in times of infectious disease threats (IDTs) were examined using the Risk Amplification through Media Spread (RAMS) Framework and in-depth phone interviews with 40 national, state, and local public health information officers (PIOs).

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Health Risk Tolerance as a Key Determinant of (Un)willingness to

WebPublic health crisis and risk communications are tasked to communicate about risks that can harm public health and persuade the public to adopt healthier and less risky behavior (Freimuth, Linnan, & Potter, 2000). Although risk perception itself has been extensively studied, it remains unclear how individuals choose not to modify unhealthy

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“Communicating during an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation”

WebAbstract: Epidemiologists and medical investigators deployed to disease outbreaks and public health investigations involving illness and deaths often need to communicate the journalists, local officials, and community members. This chapter identifies and describes the communication approaches and principles needed for effective communication

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Beyond Fear Appeals: The Role of Hope in Improving Effectiveness …

WebHowever, the effect was varied by each health topic. Statistical evaluation supported a model where the indirect effect of exposure to efficacy-inducing information on behavioral intention and intention to seek information through feelings of hope. Implications for health communication theory and practice are further discussed.

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eHealth class addresses intersection of healthcare and technology

WebStrategic Health and Risk Communication. Meet society’s evolving health needs with communication. News Literacy Certificate. Examine how we access, create and share media messages. Sports Media Certificate from the Carmical Sports Media Institute. Prepare for a dynamic career as a sports media professional. Graduate Certificate in …

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How Emotional Appeals in Health Promotion Messages and User …

WebAbstract: To close existing research gap and combat vaccine hesitancy among young adults, we conduct this study to integrate psychological reactance theory to better understand the effectiveness of three emerging yet understudied emotional appeals (i.e., guilt, shame, and pride) in health risk context.The current research has two goals: (1) to …

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Promoting healthy eating: The intervening role of health and …

WebAbstract: This study aimed to examine how consumers’ attitudes towards health and nutrition-related (HNR) claims in food advertisements affected their healthy food choice (HFC) and how online searching for nutrition information (OSNI) about food products mediated the impact of obesity knowledge on HFC. An online survey was conducted …

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Consistent cell phone service has direct link to health and well …

WebStrategic Health and Risk Communication. Meet society’s evolving health needs with communication. News Literacy Certificate. Examine how we access, create and share media messages. Sports Media Certificate from the Carmical Sports Media Institute. Prepare for a dynamic career as a sports media professional. Graduate Certificate in …

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How Health Consciousness and Perceived Healthiness of Fast Food

WebAbstract: This study examined how consumer health consciousness (high vs. low) and fast food brand type (unhealthy vs. healthy) impact evaluative responses to food advertisements. The findings revealed that consumers exhibited higher healthiness perceptions, more positive attitudes, and less consumption guilt for ads for healthy restaurant

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Dissecting the Root of Vaccine Misinformation on Pinterest

WebStrategic Health and Risk Communication. Meet society’s evolving health needs with communication. News Literacy Certificate. Examine how we access, create and share media messages. Sports Media Certificate from the Carmical Sports Media Institute. Prepare for a dynamic career as a sports media professional. Graduate Certificate in Media Analytics

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Factors that Impact COVID-19 Conspirational Beliefs and Health …

WebAbstract: To further investigate the role of conspirational beliefs on health-related behaviors during a health pandemic such as COVID-19, we conducted an online survey among U.S. adults (N = 798) to examine: (1) the strengths of different groups of individual-level variables in predicting conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and related health behaviors; and (2) …

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The Effect of Brand-Health Issue Fit on Fast-Food Health …

WebIn line with the predictions of categorization theory, the health issue-focused advertising message was more effective than the brand-focused advertising message under the low fit condition. The findings have theoretical and managerial implications and can help practitioners develop better marketing and advertising strategies for fast-food

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