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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818640203321

Autore

Witte Kim

Titolo

Effective health risk messages : a step-by-step guide / / Kim Witte, Gary Meyer, Dennis Martell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks [Calif.] ; ; London, : Sage Publications, c2001

ISBN

1-322-41560-9

0-7619-1509-5

1-4522-6439-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 214 p.) : ill., facsims

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerGary

MartellDennis

Disciplina

613

Soggetti

Health promotion

Health attitudes

Threat (Psychology)

Perception

Health risk assessment

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. 199-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; preface for Instructors and Practitioners; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - What are Health Risk Messages?; Chapter 2 - History of Health Risk Messages: Fear Appeal Theories from 1953 to 1991; Chapter 3 - Putting it All Together: The Extended Parallel Process Model; Chapter 4 - Useful Concepts from Other Theories; Chapter 5 - Starting Out the Right Way: Formative Research; Chapter 6 - The Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale; Chapter 7 - Out of the Tower and into the Field; Chapter 8 - Data Collection; Chapter 9 - Data Analysis; Chapter 10 - Getting the Message Out; Appendix; Glossary

WorksheetsReferences; Suggested Readings; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically-based campaigns that work. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide practical experience.