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Health Communication and Change

Co-Chair: Marjan Debruin [contact]
Co-Chair: Kate Holland [contact]
Braga 2010 - Health Communication & Change Working Group Call for Papers
braga_2010IAMCR’s General Assembly accepted in July 20082008 the establishment of a new working group in IAMCR: Health Communication and Change. This working group will meet for the second time during the IAMCR 2010 Conference in Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July 2010. The overall IAMCR-conference theme is 'Communication and Citizenship. Rethinking Crisis and Change'.

It is in this light that we now invite papers for this new working group on health communication and change.
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Mexico 2009 - Health Communication and Change Working Group Call for Papers

Mexico 2009 - Health Communication and Change Working Group Call for Papers IAMCR’s new working group in Health Communication and Change is inviting submissions for the IAMCR 2009 Conference in Mexico City. The theme of the conference is "Human Rights and Communication".

Health Communication as a scientific discipline has grown significantly in the past years, establishing itself institutionally with academic courses and programmes worldwide. Traditionally. its focus was on individual behaviour change, with behaviour change communication as a central approach. The theoretical emphasis has primarily been on psychological and social-psychological issues rather than on communication issues.
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