180 results match your criteria: "*Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs[Affiliation]"
Malar J
January 2015
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
Background: Despite targeted indoor residual spraying (IRS) over a six-year period and free mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), malaria rates in northern Ghana remain high. Outdoor sleeping and other night-time social, cultural and economic activities that increase exposure to infective mosquito bites are possible contributors. This study was designed to document these phenomena through direct observation, and to explore the context in which they occur.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlob Health Sci Pract
December 2014
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, Abuja, Nigeria.
Background: The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), a 6-year comprehensive family planning program (2009-2015) in 4 cities, intentionally applies communication theories to all program elements, not just the demand generation ones, relying mainly on a theory called ideation-the concept that contraceptive use is influenced by people's beliefs, ideas, and feelings and that changing these ideational factors can change people's behavior.
Program Description: The project used multiple communication channels to foster dialogue about family planning, increase social approval for it, and improve accurate knowledge about contraceptives. Mobile service delivery was started in the third year to improve access to clinical methods in slums.
Malar J
January 2015
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place Suite 310, Baltimore 21202, MD, USA.
Background: SBCC campaigns are designed to act on cognitive, social and emotional factors at the individual or community level. The combination of these factors, referred to as 'ideation', play a role in determining behaviour by reinforcing and confirming decisions about a particular health topic. This study introduces ideation theory and mediation analysis as a way to evaluate the impact of a malaria SBCC campaign in Tanzania, to determine whether exposure to a communication programme influenced universal coverage through mediating ideational variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalar J
August 2014
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, 111 Market Place, Ste 310, 21202 Baltimore, MD, USA.
Background: The longevity of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) under field conditions has important implications for malaria vector control. The behaviour of bed net users, including net care and repair, may protect or damage bed nets and impact the physical integrity of nets. However, this behaviour, and the motivating and inhibiting factors, is not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPopul Rep J
October 1995
Research and Evaluation Division, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, USA.