Public Health Communication
Subtitle
Science and Practice
Public Health Communication: Science and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of how to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate public health communication interventions. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book:
• Reviews the social marketing and ecological approaches to health promotion.
• Examines multiple theoretical perspectives including the health belief model, social cognitive theory, the extended parallel process model, the reasoned action approach, and the transtheoretical model.
• Explains how to measure key theoretical construct reliably and validly.
• Summarizes results from seminal meta-analyses, with an emphasis on when various theories and techniques work best.
• Describes how to collect qualitative and quantitative data using individual and focus group interviews, survey research, and practical experimental design.
• Connects theory, research, and practice using real-world examples with which readers can easily identify.
Public Health Communication: Science and Practice is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate or graduate classes across a range of disciplines, and a valuable resource for practitioners and researchers interested in changing health behavior.
Bio
Anthony (Tony) Roberto received his B.A. in Communication at Central Connecticut State University, and his M.A. in Advertising and his Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University. He is a been professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University since 2008. Dr. Roberto’s areas of interest and expertise include health communication, persuasion and social influence, quantitative research methods. To date, he has published over 50 referred research articles, three books, 19 book chapters and encyclopedia entries, and five referred teaching articles. Tony has also received two dozen awards for research, teaching, and service in these and related areas. Tony lives in Arizona with his wife Karin, a miniature poodle Brigitte, and a quarter horse named Peaches.
