- Community Guide, The (Guide to Community Preventive Services)
Evidence-based interventions for public health. Includes sections on alcohol, motor vehicles, physical activity, tobacco, cancer, nutrition, pregnancy, vaccines, diabetes, obesity, sexual behavior, violence, mental health, oral health,...
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An online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organizations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change
Includes...
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- Community Toolbox
Includes many annotated links to other web-based resources supporting social marketing and social change...
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- Program Impact Attribution
This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the...
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- Strategic Roles for Health Communication in Combination HIV Prevention and Care Programs
This special issue of JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes is devoted to health communication and its role in and impact on HIV prevention and care. The authors in this special issue have tackled a wide swath of topics,...
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- CDC Public Health Image Library
Provides photographs, illustrations and multimedia files, with image collections for environmental health, natural disasters, anatomy, biological sciences, heart health, nutrition, chemicals and drugs, diseases (including AIDS) and...
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Parents and Adolescents Talking about Healthy Sexuality (PATHS) is an online intervention for parents designed to improve communication about HIV and increase behaviors supportive of YMSM sexual health. A Randomized Control Trial found that...
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- Getting Practical: Integrating Social Norms into Social and Behavior Change Programs
Getting Practical uses examples from family planning and reproductive health to illustrate how to integrate social norms into your program.This step-by-step guide is written for people in the field of social and behaviour change who know...
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- Incorporate Sexual Pleasure into Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programs to Improve Outcomes
This systematic review and meta-analysis from 2005 to 2020 found that incorporating sexual pleasure considerations into Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programs improved condom use and related outcomes.According to the authors, ...
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- HIV and STI Testing Preferences for Men Who Have Sex with Men in High-Income Countries
This open-access scoping review looks at, for men who have sex with men, what attributes of an HIV/STI testing service they prefer, and what attributes discourage them from getting tested. To market/promote HIV and STI testing among men who...
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- Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Prevention Interventions for Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior Among Youth Worldwide
This open-access, mixed methods systematic review synthesizes global evidence on barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention interventions for reducing risky sexual behavior among youth based on peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative or...
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- Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
This compendium from the US CDC hosts a collection of summaries of rigorously studied, effective, American behavioral interventions and best practices for reducing HIV.The compendium breaks interventions into five groups:
Pre...
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- Money Spent on Community-Based HIV Prevention Translates into Treatment Savings
This 2016 study found that money spent on community-based HIV prevention translates into treatment savings. Every $1 spent on community-based HIV prevention programs in Ontario Canada saves $5 in treatment costs.Investments in community...
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- Program Evaluation Methods; Measurement and Attribution of Program Results
A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods....
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- Urban Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Social and Behavior Change Communication Implementation Kit
This tool will help you develop programs for urban adolescents on sexual and reproductive health and behavior change.Contains guidance and worksheets geared to working with adolescents in a wide range of countries and situations. One...
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- Engaging Teachers to Communicate Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Other Topics
When consensus about a risk or mitigating behavior is newly developed and/or not clearly understood, communicating that consensus through teachers / instructors can be critical. While this blog entry focuses on climate change, it may also...
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- Brief interventions to prevent sexually transmitted infections suitable for in-service use: A systematic review
A small number of interventions were found to be effective in reducing Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) among young people and in promoting self-reported STI-risk behavior change in men who have sex with men.BACKGROUND: Sexually...
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- U.S. National Social Norms Center
Links best evidence with practice to promote effective social norms marketing campaigns to improve health on college campuses and beyond.The mission of the National Social Norms Center (NSNC) is to:
advance the social norms approach...
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- Impact of Comics vs Photographs on Knowledge, Attitude and Behavioural Intentions
This 2017 study compares two modes of visually presenting information - one using photographs and the other using cartoons - on audience's knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.This study compares two modes of visually presenting...
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- Global Burden of Disease
A comprehensive picture of what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health...
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- HIV Self-Testing is Associated with Increased Uptake and Frequency of Testing in RCTs
HIV Self-Testing is associated with increased uptake and frequency of testing in RCTs. Such increases, particularly among those at risk who may not otherwise test, will likely identify more HIV-positive individuals as compared to standard...
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- WHO Issues Updated Biobehavioural Survey Guidelines for Populations at Risk for HIV
These updated WHO guidelines cover all aspects of surveying key populations, including sampling methods for hard-to-sample populations, integration of methods for estimating size of key populations, and inclusion of biomarker measurements...
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- HIV/STI Prevention Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This review of randomized and non-randomized controlled trials assessed the effectiveness of HIV/STI prevention interventions for people living with HIV in high income settings. It discusses the types and common characteristics among...
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- Health Communication and Social Marketing Campaigns for Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Control: What Is the evidence of their effectiveness?
This 2014 review yielded 26 articles representing 16 unique STD testing and/or prevention campaigns. Nearly all campaigns found differences between exposed and unexposed individuals on one or more key behavioral outcomes. Several campaigns...
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- A Review of Current Practices to Increase Chlamydia Screening in the Community--a consumer-centered social marketing perspective
Of 18 interventions identified in 2015, quality of evidence was low. Proportional screening rates varied, ranging from: 30.9 to 62.5% in educational settings (n = 4), 4.8 to 63% in media settings (n = 6) and from 5.7 to 44.5% in other...
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- STD Program Management & Evaluation Tools
This website from the US CDEC contains sections on Effective Interventions, Statistics, Training, Tools and Materials, and the Effective Use of Program Evaluation....
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- Behaviour Change Techniques in Brief Interventions to Prevent HIV, STI and Unintended Pregnancies: A systematic review
This guideline recommends the use of brief behaviour intervention and communication programmes to promote sexual health and to prevent HIV, STIs, and unintended pregnancies in primary health services, particularly sexual and reproductive...
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- Interventions to Support Contraceptive Choice and Use: A global systematic map of systematic reviews
Meta-analyses of fifty systematic reviews found strong evidence for the effectiveness of promoting contraceptive choice and use through: motivational interviewing, contraceptive counselling, psychosocial interventions, school-based...
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- Interventions to improve antiretroviral adherence in HIV-infected pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on improving antiretroviral adherence targeting among HIV-infected pregnant women. The study calls for combining a device reminder with other...
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- Interventions to improve antiretroviral adherence in HIV-infected pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on improving antiretroviral adherence among HIV-infected pregnant women. The study calls for combining a device reminder with other intervention...
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- EPPI-Centre
Contains reviews of research evidence on interventions related to active transportation (walking and cycling), rod safety, physical activity, heart health (cardiovascular disease), HIV / AIDS, nutrition, obesity, tobacco (smoking), conflict...
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- Health-Evidence.ca
A free, searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions. The content has been quality rated. Bilingual (English and French).
Topics include: AIDS, environmental...
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