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Planning a Drone Shoot? Here are the Top Seven Questions to Ask

As soon as we mention that we fly drones, people get excited! They often show a lot of interest and share a story about someone they know who owns a drone. More often than not it’s someone’s friend’s son or a friend from work. Surprisingly – or unsurprisingly – virtually everyone we speak to isn’t […]

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Health Communication Quandary: The Ethics of Presenting Behaviour Change Campaigns

“Until recently, health education was seen as ‘beneficent’ by nature” states the French journal Sante Publique. However, recent ethical reflections on the methods and objectives of many behaviour change campaigns has revealed “a number of problems or abuses” that “often contradict…the very goal of health promotion.” Hence the quandary that arises when determining how to best

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Behaviour Change Campaigns: Iterating a Health Communication Intervention Using the WHO’s Itinerary

ABSTRACT A meta-analysis conducted by the British Medical Journal into the “complex and contentious” nature of health communication interventions revealed that, while difficult to incorporate into routine clinical practice, they can be made workable by “using existing…frameworks as the basis for [their] development.” WORLD HEALTH, MADE WORKABLE The World Health Organization produced the Strategic Communications Framework for effective communications – an

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What is the medical community’s responsibility when it comes to producing content?

Does the medical community have a responsibility to produce content that is not only accurate, but educational? People are increasingly searching for video content online regarding their own suspected or confirmed health conditions, and unfortunately a lot of that content comes from organisations or persons that have no affiliation with a professional society. A case

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Video Cures What Ails You: How Video-Based Health Communication Interventions Inspire Healthy Behaviour

ABSTRACT A review from the Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis concluded that, in today’s multimedia culture, “the use of video technology” is a “vital component” for disseminating health communication interventions. And, “in fact, some users may find the lack of video…aversive.” DISSEMINATING HEALTH COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS As the World Health Organization reports, “health communication is seen to have relevance for virtually every aspect of

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