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McEntee, Marie; Mortimer, Claire – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2013
This article examines two large-scale public communication campaigns to explore the appropriateness and effectiveness of using one-way communication in contentious environmental issues. The findings show while one-way communication can be successfully employed in contentious issues, it is not appropriate for all contexts and may contribute to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Communication Strategies, Public Relations
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Adams, Jeffery; Neville, Stephen – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: Ensuring men who have sex with men (MSM) adopt and maintain condom use for anal sex is a challenging health education goal. In order to inform the development of social marketing practices to encourage safe-sex practices, the views of MSM about a key HIV health education message ("using a condom every time for anal sex") were…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Education, Health Promotion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Meaghan, Diane – 2002
A study interviewed 37 Canadian sex workers in 4 cities to determine how they acquire a working knowledge of safer sex practices and what that knowledge constituted. Findings indicated the vast majority exhibited high levels of knowledge and efficacy regarding safer sex practices; sex workers took the initiative to obtain information and engage in…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Adults, Developed Nations
Anderson, Robert, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1990
Health promotion redirects thinking about health by: reasserting its social and political aspects; ensuring the people the power to define their own health concerns; and placing health more clearly in the context of other aims in life. This compilation of 41 articles in 8 sections attempts to document this process of redirection of thought. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services
Meaghan, Diane – 2000
This project examined attitudes, expectations, and behaviors that make prostitutes successful in learning to establish their autonomy and work safely. Ethnographic studies were conducted of 47 prostitutes in Canada and 60 in New Zealand through semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and open-ended discussions supplemented by researchers'…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Community Resources, Developed Nations