background: in order to extend hbv immunization to twenty-five-year old adolescents, ministry of health and medical education (moh & me) in iran has decided to implement hbv mass vaccination campaign for adolescents who were born from 1989 to 1992. the first three-round campaign covering 1989 born adolescents was implemented in 2007 in iran. this study was conducted for cost estimation and anal...

OBJECTIVE An 18-site randomized trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of social norms marketing (SNM) campaigns in reducing college student drinking. The SNM campaigns are intended to correct misperceptions of subjective drinking norms and thereby drive down alcohol consumption. METHOD Institutions of higher education were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. At the...

BACKGROUND Global Handwashing Day (GHD) is a handwashing promotion campaign organized by the Global Public-Private Partnership of Handwashing with Soap. In China, it has been promoted by the Chinese public health authorities, international organizations and multinational corporations through various channels including social media such as Sina Weibo, the leading Chinese microblogging site simil...

Good morning. Even as we gather, the Clintons are preparing for their historic bus ride from Monticello to Washington, DC. I have been thinking lately of the campaign bus as a metaphor for a populist administration; a populist administration that is determined to “look like America.” I think we would all be well-advised to consider how fundamentally nonpopulist is the conduct and image of scien...

Methods Liaison with stakeholders started early. Literature and local data were reviewed. A population-based telephone survey was commissioned to measure knowledge, attitude, practice of the public related to antibiotics and their awareness of antibiotic resistance. Random sample was drawn from the latest residential telephone directory. A structured questionnaire was used for adults 18 years o...

Both lifestyle and structural changes are needed to reduce carbon emissions limit the impacts of climate change. In a series three studies, we examine whether undertaking behaviors at personal level affects (i.e., spills over onto) people's willingness engage in collective level. Study 1, find that none measured negatively associated with behavior intentions (willingness join campaign convince ...

COVID-19 infectious disease resulted in a pandemic that has threatened millions of people the world. It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and it created global health crisis. Hence, present study aimed at assessing communication strategies used Ethiopian Public Health Institute Ministry to address vaccine hesitancy, make analysis vaccination messages, hybr...

Why do political campaigns so often fail to persuade voters, and what does this say about voter decision making? Some interpret the difficulty of persuading voters as evidence that remain loyal their parties even when confronted with new information. However, an informational (quasi-Bayesian) mechanism may also contribute. We test empirical implications these alternatives four survey experiment...

INTRODUCTION Mass-media campaigns such as, "Change4Life' in the UK and "get active America" in the US, promote physical activity (PA) recommendations of at least 150 min/week of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). We investigated whether different messages used in MVPA campaigns were associated with intention to engage in more MVPA. MATERIALS AND METHODS Theory of planned behavior (TPB) construct...