Health Communication

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Tools | Publications | Program Development | News | Professional Development

Tools

• Counseling Tools
  • "Care for Postabortion Complications: Saving Women's Lives," Population Reports, Series L, Number 10, 1997.
  • "GATHER Guide to Counseling," Population Reports, Series J, Number 48, 1998.
  • "GATHER Approach to Counseling About Injectables" in "New Era for Injectables," Population Reports, Series K, Number 5, 1995.
    
    
• Checklists
  • Rule Out Pregnancy [English | French | Spanish]
  • Checklist for Clients Who Want to Initiate Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs) in Community-Based Services
    © Family Health International, 2000
  • Checklist for Clients Who Want to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN) in Community-Based Services (CBS)
    © Family Health International, 2000
  • Check Your Counseling Skills
  • Ideas for Providers: Teach Yourself Better Counseling
  • Tips for Managers: Promoting Better Counseling
    
    
• Wallcharts, Posters, and Pamphlets
  • The Essentials of Contraceptive Technology Wall Chart [English | French | Portuguese | Spanish]
  • The wallchart text is also available.[English | Spanish | French | Portuguese]
  • The M/MC Health Communication Materials Database contains wallcharts, posters, and pamphlets in many languages from countries worldwide. You may search the M/MC Health Communication Materials Database by country, subject matter, and type of material.

Publications

• Books
  • Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health
  • The Essentials of Contraceptive Technology: A handbook for clinic staff
    
    
• Center Publications
  • Health Communication Insights: Taking Community Empowerment to Scale--Lessons from Three Successful Experiences [2007] — ( PDF )
    
  • Health Communication Insights: Information and Communication Technologies for the Developing World [2004] — ( PDF )
    
    
• Field Guides
  • Reaching Men to Improve Reproductive Health for All [2004] – (Online version: HTML and PDF ) ( Order CD-ROM )
  • Tools to Assess Family Planning Counseling
  • How To Select and Work with an Advertising Agency (order form)
  • How To Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development: A Script Writer's Manual (order form)
  • How To Design and Produce a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development: A Program Manager's Guide (order form)
    
    
• MAQ Pack
  • MAQ (Maximizing Access and Quality) is an initiative of USAID and collaborating agencies to serve clients and programs by improving both access to and quality of services. We offer a special package of materials and information to support this initiative.
    
    
• POPLINE
  • Search POPLINE for the latest documents on health communication. More information is available about POPLINE.
    
    
• JHU/CCP Journal Articles
  • Peer-reviewed journal articles include all articles written by Center staff that have been published in peer-reviewed journals since 1994. Links to abstracts are available and to full-text articles when possible.

Program Development, Management and Evaluation

• Program Development
  • SCOPE - Through an interactive software interface, SCOPE helps you design, implement, and evaluate effective health communication projects directly on the computer.
    

• Program Management
  • The Six Directions of Leadership
  • P Process (includes The Seven Cs of Effective Communication)
  • Steps to Behavior Change Communication
  • Entertainment-Education
  • MAQ (Maximizing Access and Quality) Checklist
    
    
• Advocacy
  • "A" frame for Advocacy
    
    
• Evaluation
  • Tools for evaluating health communication programs are available from the Research and Evaluation division at JHU/CCP. For more information, contact Sherry Weber at sweber@jhuccp.org.

News

• "The Pop Reporter" E-zine - Stay current on news and trends in population, family planning, and reproductive health by subscribing to "The Pop Reporter," a weekly electronic (e-mail) magazine loaded with links to key news stories, reports, and related developments around the globe.

• JHU/CCP Press Room contains resources for journalists and others interested in news about Center activities.

Professional Development

• Degree Programs - Interested in professional development? Visit the Web site of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

• Distance Education - The School of Public Health also offers a distance education program.

• Workshops - Our Training division offers a variety of workshops.

• Questions and Answers

  • Jim Shelton's Pearls provide answers to commonly asked questions about family planning. Check out the "Pearl" of the Week for Questions & Answers.
    
    These "Pearls" are prepared by Dr. James D. Shelton, Senior Medical Scientist, Office of Population, USAID.
    
    Have a question for a future "Pearl"? Send your proposed question to Dr. Shelton. Your question may be chosen as a future "Pearl of the Week."

• Organizations
  • Search for links to Web sites, and organizations in the field of health communication.

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