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April 16, 2018
The concept of Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) focuses on health system efforts to improve equity in healthcare access, community empowerment, participation of marginalized groups, and actions on the social determinants of health. Despite...
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April 16, 2018
Tremendous challenges remain to ensure that the most vulnerable populations, including women, children, and adolescents, are able to enjoy the healthy lives and well-being promised in the Sustainable Development Goals. Much of their poor health is...
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April 16, 2018
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which open educational resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources,...
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March 20, 2018
This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new...
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February 13, 2018
'In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today's media culture and media society.'– Sonia...
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February 9, 2018
This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts towards better media development. The pursuit of media freedom has been the bedrock of media...
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January 29, 2018
The CIOMS Guide to Vaccine Safety Communication provides an overview of strategic communication issues faced by medicines regulators, those responsible for vaccination policies and programmes and other stakeholders when dealing with:
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January 5, 2018
This volume on "Education towards a Culture of Peace" is a timely undertaking, since the United Nations has proclaimed the years 2001-2010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World." A culture...
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December 5, 2017
Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention, there has been little consideration of the wider...
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December 5, 2017
Children and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing...
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October 16, 2017
Paola Gianturco and her eleven-year-old granddaughter documented the work of fifteen girl-led nonprofit groups in thirteen countries in Asia and Central Asia, North and Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania. They interviewed and...
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September 19, 2017
The cross-disciplinary Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication contains 47 essays by 57 leading scholars organized into six sections: The first section establishes the need for a science of science communication, provides an overview...
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September 11, 2017
Norms in the Wild, distinguished philosopher Cristina Bicchieri argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place too much stress on rational deliberation. In fact, she says, many choices occur without much deliberation at all....
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August 17, 2017
The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as being inherently 'good', with the ability to make the world better, and in particular...
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July 24, 2017
The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes, approaches and debates in the field of media and human rights.
The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct...
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June 9, 2017
From the publisher:
"How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs [non-governmental organisations] and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?
In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental...
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April 21, 2017
Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an...
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April 21, 2017
The latest book in the Palgrave/ IAMCR Series on Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research is a true example of what the series sets out to do: a collective knowledge production and exchange through trans-disciplinary contributions...
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April 19, 2017
What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with indifference? Do different forms of media have greater or lesser impacts on mobilization...
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April 19, 2017
Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always...
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March 28, 2017
Building and Evaluating Research Capacity in Healthcare Systems: Case Studies and Innovative Models
Nancy Edwards (Editor), Dan C. Owino Kaseje (Editor), Eulalia Kokuangisa Kahwa (Editor)
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March 28, 2017
Jemimah Njuki (Editor), John R. Parkins (Editor), Amy Kaler (Editor)
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March 28, 2017
Luc J. A. Mougeot (Editor)
Dramatic changes in the ecosystem for international development are now pressing civil society organizations (CSOs) to invest more in knowledge to remain significant players. While the need for creative thinking and...
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March 22, 2017
"Why is participation in policy-making normatively desirable? How do citizens make policy-making better? What difference does it make if citizens take part in public debate, parliamentary discussions and procedures, and policy implementation and...
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March 9, 2017
This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they...
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March 8, 2017
Health Actions for Women addresses the social factors that prevent women and girls from enjoying healthy lives. This guide offers proven strategies to help women and men facilitate community discussions and action, even in challenging settings where...
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February 20, 2017
The book, draws on ten years of peer-reviewed research, interviews and case studies by The Stakeholder Media Project, based in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre in Fontainebleau, France. In five chapters, the book provides a blueprint for the...
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November 9, 2016
Emily's Choice is a child protection comic book and video created by British Columbia (BC), Canada's Healthy Aboriginal Network (HAN) and the Legal Services Society (Legal Aid BC). The graphic novel tells the story of Emily, who is struggling with...
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October 24, 2016
With young children gaining access to a dizzying array of games, videos, and other digital media, will they ever learn to read? The answer is yes—if they are surrounded by adults who know how to help and introduced to media designed to promote...
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August 15, 2016
As the developed world continues to become more digitized, lesser developed areas are starting to see more technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and...
