Section Name Description
Public Health Communications Homepage File Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada
Module 1: Lesson 1: Why Public Health Communications? URL About Health Communication

Read the entire webpage. (2 minutes)

Society for Health Communication - 2018
URL What is Health Marketing?

Read the entire webpage. (3 minutes)

CDC - 2011
URL Public Health Communication

Read Chapter 1 "Introduction to Public Health Communication". (18 minutes)

Parvanta, David E. Nelson - 2017
URL Importance of Communication in Public Health

Read the entire article. (11 minutes)

PUBLIC HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT - 2014
URL Health Communication Basics

Read the entire webpage. (10 minutes)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2011
Module 1: Lesson 2: Communication Strategies and Principles URL Nursing Communication and Educational Technology

Read the content under Chapter 1 "Communication" from pages 1-9, and under the sub-headings "Theories of Communication," "A Model of Communication," "Objectives of Communications," "Elements of Communication Process," "Principles of Communication," and "Forms of Communication." (25 minutes)

Pramilaa R
URL 10 Strategies for Effective Health Communication

Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

Thulane University, School of Public Heath and Tropical medicine - 2020
URL WHO Strategic Communications Framework For Effective Communications

Read from the content under the heading "Purpose and background." on page 3 (2 minutes)

2017
URL Health Communication Strategies as Gateway to Effective Health Promotion and Well-being.

Read the entire article. (15 minutes)

iMedPub Journals - 2017
Module 2: Lesson 1: Cultural Competence URL General principles of practice and cultural competence

Read pages 7-8 of the document. (5 minutes)

National Territory of Department of Education- Australia - 2014
URL Cultural Competence In Health And Human Services

Read the content under the headings "What is Cultural Competence?" and "What's the Difference? Cultural Competence, Awareness, and Sensitivity."  (3 minutes)

National Prevention Information Network
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2020
URL Communication in the Real World: 8.4 Intercultural Communication Competence

Read the content from the heading "Components of Intercultural Communication Competence" up to the heading "Key Takeaways." (11 minutes)

Minnesota Libraries - 2016
URL Enhancing FDA’s Reach to Minorities and Under-Represented Groups through Training: Developing Culturally Competent Health Education Materials

Read the entire sections of the "Introduction" and "Discussion." (8 minutes)

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health-SAGE - 2021
URL Culturally Competent Outreach: Applying Social Marketing Techniques

Read the entire document. (9 minutes)

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors - 2012
URL Communicating COVID-19 health information to culturally and linguistically diverse communities: insights from a participatory research collaboration

Read the content under the heading "Introduction," and from the heading "Communicating COVID-19 health messages: challenges faced by CALD communities" to the end of the article. (11 minutes)

Public Health Research & Practice - 2021
Module 2: Lesson 2: Ethical considerations for Communicators URL Important Laws and Regulations in Health Informatics

Read the entire page. (7 minutes)

USF Health Morsani Collage of Medicine - 2021
URL Health Information Privacy Laws in the Digital Age: HIPAA Doesn't Apply

Read the entire article. (17 minutes)

NCBI - 2020
URL Federal Public Health Laws Supporting Data Use and Sharing

Read the entire document. (11 minutes)

CDC - 2015
URL Ethical Issues in Health Promotion and Communication Interventions

Read the content under the headings "Summary," "Introduction: Why Are Ethical Considerations a Pivotal Part of Communication for Health Promotion Interventions?" and "Moral and Practical Reasons." (8 minutes)

Oxford University Press - 2017
URL Ethical Considerations for Digitally Targeted Public Health Interventions

Read the entire article. (8 minutes)

Americal Journal of Public Health - 2020
URL Ethical sharing of health data in online platforms - which values should be considered?

Read from the "Abstract" up until the heading "Translating ethical values into practice: Five examples of online platforms for health data sharing." (32 minutes)

BMC - 2017
URL Ethical Issues in Health Promotion and Communication Interventions

Read ALL of the content under the following sections (required for the Peer Activity): "Types of Ethical Concerns Regarding Health Promotion Communication Interventions," "How to Identify and Consider Ethical Issues: Drawing on Ethical Frameworks and Precepts," "Ethical Approaches of Caring and Connectedness" and "Digital Media in Health Promotion: Issues of Privacy and Democracy." (69 minutes)

Oxford Research Encyclopedia - 2017
URL Disease surveillance data sharing for public health: the next ethical frontiers

Read the entire article. (15 minutes)

Life Sciences, Society, and Policy - 2018
Module 3: Lesson 1: Public Health Information Systems URL Key elements of a health information system

Read the entire page. (2 minutes)

United Nations Development Programme - 2021
URL Identification of the essential components of quality in the data collection process for public health information systems

Read the content under the headings "Introduction," "Results" and "Discussion." (20 minutes)

Sage Journals: Health Informatics Journal - 2019
URL Strengthening health information systems

Read the section "What are the main actions countries can take to strengthen their HIS?"  (3 minutes)

WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA - 2017
URL Measure Evaluation’s Health Information System Strengthening Model

Read the entire document. (10 minutes)

MEASURE Evaluation - USAID - 2017
URL Routine Health Information System (RHIS) improvements for strengthened health system management

Read the following sections:
- Plain language summary
- Background (up to the heading "Why is is important to do this review?")
- Results (from the heading "Interventions and comparisons" up to "RHIS performance"
- Discussion (up to the heading "Overall completeness and applicability of evidence") (33 minutes)

Cochrane Library - 2020
Module 3: Lesson 2: Digital Health Literacy URL Digital health literacy: how new skills can help improve health, equity and sustainability

Read the content under the heading "The Situation" and the graphic "Digital Health Ecosystems." (4 minutes)

European Healthnet-European Commission - 2019
URL The e-health literacy framework: A conceptual framework for characterizing e-health users and their interaction with e-health systems

Read the content in the sections:
- Introduction
- Results
- Discussion (up to, and inclusive of, Table 3) (28 minutes)

Knowledge Management and E-Learning - 2015
URL Health Literacy in Web-Based Health Information Environments: Systematic Review of Concepts, Definitions, and Operationalization for Measurement

Read the Introduction. (11 minutes)

Journal of Medical Internet Research - 2018
URL Association Between Health Literacy,eHealth Literacy, and Health Outcomes Among Patients With Long-Term Conditions

Read the sections "Health Literacy and eHealth Literacy –Definition and Measurement." (4 minutes)

European Psychologist - 2019
URL Barriers to the acceptance of electronic medical records by physicians from systematic review to taxonomy and interventions

Read the section "Taxonomy of Barriers to Electronic Medical Records." (33 minutes)

BMC Health Services Research - 2010
URL Barriers in Adoption of Health Information Technology in Developing Societies

Read the content under the heading "III. Literature Review" on pages 40-42. (9 minutes)

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications - 2011
URL WHO guideline recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening

Read pages 77-85 "Implementation Considerations." (16 minutes)

WHO - 2019
URL Proposing a Transactional Model of eHealth Literacy: Concept Analysis

Read the entire article. (55 minutes)

JMIR Publications - 2018
Module 4: Lesson 1: Critical Thinking URL Evidence Transfer: Ensuring end-users are aware of, have access to, and understand the evidence.

Read the entire article. (24 minutes)

JBI Evidence Implementation - 2018
URL Improving knowledge translation for increased engagement and impact in healthcare

Read the entire article. (20 minutes)

BMJ journals - 2018
URL The effectiveness of knowledge translation strategies used in public health: a systematic review

Read the content under the headings "Background" and "Discussion" up to the sub-section "Strengths and limitations."  (15 minutes)

BMC Public Health - 2012
URL Knowledge Translation Strategies for Different Target Audiences

Read the entire document. (12 mins)

Alberta Health Services - 2019
Module 4: Lesson 2: Creative Communications URL The Role of Social Media in Health Care: A Public Health Perspective

Read the entire page. (19 minutes)

OHIO university - 2020
URL Health communication in the age of COVID: BC’s response

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

Canadian Health Information Management Association - 2021
URL 5 Ways Technology Has Changed the Communication Field

Read the entire page. (5 minutes)

American University - 2019
URL Social Media in Public Health: Strategies to Distill, Package, and Disseminate Public Health Research

Read the entire article. (14 minutes)

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice - 2020
URL Tactics to apply to make your communications understandable

Read the entire page and the infographic. (6 minutes)

World Health Organization - 2017
URL United Nations COVID-19 Response Creative Content Hub.

This website includes several examples of creative communication, the examples can be filtered by different types of media. Spend 4 minutes exploring examples of communication on each type of media. (25 minutes)

United Nations - 2021
URL The Art of Effective Visual Communication

Read the entire article. (8 minutes)

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - 2017
URL Use Design and Layout Effectively

Read pages 17-26. (8 minutes)

CDC - 2018
URL Visual Design Basics

Read the entire page. (6 minutes)

Usability.gov - 2013
Module 5: Lesson 1: Society and Public Health Communications URL Effective health communication – a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic
Read Section 3 "How to promote behavior change: lessons from health communication research." (6 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine - 2020
URL Communicating to Advance the Public's Health

Read from the beginning of the page up to the heading "Discussion." (19 minutes)

Institute of Medicine - 2015
URL Translating the Link between Social Identity and Health Behavior into Effective Health Communication Strategies: An Experimental Application Using Anti-Smoking Advertisements

Read the content from the beginning of the article up to the heading "Current Study" and under the heading "Discussion and Implications." (21 minutes)

HHS Public Access - 2014
URL Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria: a qualitative study
Read the content under "Abstract," "Results" and "Discussion." (30 minutes)
BMC Public Health Journal - 2017
Module 5: Lesson 2: Community Mobilization URL Strategies Guided by Best Practice for Community Mobilization

Read the entire page except for the "References" (13 minutes)

Advocates for Youth- CDC funded - 2014
URL Concept analysis of community health outreach

Read the Abstract, Background, and Discussion. (7 minutes)

BMC Public Health Journal - 2020
URL Mass Media Health Communication Campaigns Combined with Health-Related Product Distribution A Community Guide Systematic Review

Read the content under the headings "Context," "Overview of Health Communication Campaigns," and "Overview of Social Marketing Campaigns." (5 minutes)

Americal Journal of Preventive Medicine - 2014
URL Strategies: Health Communication

Read the sections "Health Communication," "Examples of Health Communication interventions" and "Considerations for Implementation."  (3 minutes)

Rural Health Information Hub - 2018
URL Strategy 8. Social Marketing

Read the entire document except for the "Resources." (7 minutes)

CDC - 2013
URL Community Mobilization: A Community-Wide Approach to Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health

Read the content under the heading "Key strategies" on pages 5-8. (8 minutes)

The Journal of Applied Research on Children- US OFFICE of Adolescent Health - 2017
URL Social marketing guide for public health programme managers and practitioners

Read the content in the section "What are the key social marketing concepts and principles?" on pages 7-15. (25 minutes)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - 2014
Module 6: Lesson 1: What is Effective Communication? URL Better Communication for Better Public Health: Perspectives From an Interdisciplinary Training Program

Read the section "Communication is an Essential MCH Leadership Skill."  (7 minutes)

National Center for Biotechnology Information - 2016
URL Health Education, Advocacy and Community Mobilisation

Read the entire webpage. (2 minutes)

Open Learn create - 2011
URL Effective Oral and Written Communication

Read the content under the heading "Introduction" and "Principles of making effective communication in organization" (3 minutes)

Journal of Applied and Advanced Research-India - 2018
URL WHO Strategic Communications Framework for effective communications

Read the following sections:
- Principle: Accessible (page 4 up to "Identify Effective Channels" on page 5)
- Principle: Actionable (page 9 up to "Increase Awareness" on page 11)
- Principle: Credible and Trusted (page 17 up to "Coordinate with Partners" on page 20)
- Principle: Relevant (page 24 up to "Know the Audience" on page 5)
- Principle: Timely (page 30 up to "Communicate what who knows early" on page 31)
- Principle: Understandable (page 35) (24 minutes)

WHO - 2017
URL Non-verbal barriers to effective intercultural communication

Read the content under the heading "Introduction" "Results" and "conclusions" (16 minutes)

Universidad del Zulia - 2019
Module 6: Lesson 2: Written and Oral Communication Skills URL Effective Oral and Written Communication

Read the content from "Oral communication" to the end of the article on pages 30-32. (10 minutes)

Journal of Applied and Advanced Research-India -  2018
URL Health literacy – Written communication

Read the entire page. (4 minutes)

Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health - 2020
URL Effective Communication: Barriers and Strategies

Read the content under the heading "Barriers to Effective Verbal Communication" and "Strategies for Effective Verbal Communication." (4 minutes)

University of Waterloo
URL Communicating in a Crisis

Read the content on the section "Presenting Information at Public Meetings" on pages 34 - 37 (6 minutes)

SAMHSA - 2019
Module 6: Lesson 3: Tailoring Public Health Messages for the Audience URL 4 Research Methods for Audience Analysis

Read the entire page. (7 minutes)

Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism - 2011
URL 5.1 Why Conduct an Audience Analysis

Read the entire page. (24 minutes)

University of Minnesota - 2012
URL 5.2 Three Types of Audience Analysis

Read the entire page. (26 minutes)

University of Minnesota - 2012
URL Unit 5: Analyzing your Audience

Read the entire page. (16 minutes)

Seneca College - 2020
URL WHO Strategic Communications Framework for effective communication

Read pages 24-29. (10 minutes)

WHO - 2017
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