Public Health Communication
Subtitle: Evidence for Behavior Change (Lea's Communication Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780805831771
Subjects: Communication Studies; Health systems & services; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical / Nursing; Mass media in health education; Medical; Mental Health; Media Studies; Public Health; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Health promotion; Communication in public health; Health in mass media
First sentence: When cigarette smoking prevention programs are offered to students in grades 6 to 8, there is consistent evidence of reductions in smoking initiation that persist into the early high school grades (G. J. Botvin, Baker, Dusenbury, &amp; E. M. Botvin, 1990; Elder et al., 1993; Glynn, 1989).