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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480063603321

Autore

Guttman Nurit

Titolo

Public health communication interventions [[electronic resource] ] : values and ethical dilemmas / / Nurit Guttman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2000

ISBN

1-322-41808-X

0-7619-0259-7

1-4522-6500-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

362.1014

Soggetti

Communication in public health

Health behavior

Medical ethics

Social values

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Values in Public Health Communication Interventions: Beyond Strategic Analytic Approaches; Chapter 2 - Justifications; Chapter 3 - ""They are Always There"": Values in Intervention Facets; Chapter 4 - Even When They Apply the Same Justifications, Interventions are not the Same: The Personal Responsibility Typology; Chapter 5 - Analyses of Intervention Types: Community Involvement; Chapter 6 - Ethical Dilemmas and Practice-Oriented Questions; Chapter 7 - Toward a Normative Approach

Resource A: Sample Work Sheets for Analysis of Intervention FacetsResource B: Sample Work Sheets for Comparing Health Communication Interventions; Resource C: Analyses of Intervention Types; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This text critically examines the ethical dimensions of health campaigns and interventions. It questions how far health communication can and should go towards changing people's values



and behaviour.