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Health Communication
Volume 24(4), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Moore, Scott D., Wright, Kevin B., and Bernard, Daniel R. Influences on health delivery system satisfaction: A partial test of the ecological model 285-294
 
  This study uses structural equation modeling to investigate several predictors of hospital system satisfaction 
 
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health
interpersonal
 
 
Greenberg, Bradley S., Rosaen, Sarah F., Worrell, Tracy R., Salmon, Charles T., and Volkman, Julie E. A portrait of food and drink in commercial TV series 295-303
 
  This study examines the content and presentation of food and drink on fictional, commercial television 
 
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television
broadcasting and media
children
 
 
Feeley, Thomas Hugh, Cooper, James, Foels, Thomas, and Mahoney, Martin C. Efficacy expectations for colorectal cancer screening in primary care: Identifying barriers and facilitators for patients and clinicians 304-315
 
  Physicians (MDs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) in primary care (PC) specialties, as well as patients, participated in a series of peer-level focus groups to explore how colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is approached in PC 
 
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health
cognition
interpersonal
 
 
Cameron, Kenzie A., Rintamaki, Lance S., Kamanda-Kosseh, Mafo, Noskin, Gary A., Baker, David W., and Makoul, Gregory Using theoretical constructs to identify key issues for targeted message design: African American seniors' perceptions about influenza and influenza vaccination 316-326
 
  African American seniors (65 and older) are less likely to be vaccinated against influenza than are non-Hispanic White seniors 
 
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african american issues and civil rights
race and ethnicity
health
persuasion
 
 
Avery, Elizabeth Johnson, Lariscy, Ruthann Weaver, and Sohn, Youngju Public information officers' and journalists' perceived barriers to providing quality health information 327-336
 
  Given the increase in the volume of health and medical news over the past few years, the expanding population of journalists committed to feeding the public's voracious appetite for such information, and the important role of government public health organizations in producing and disseminating public health information, it is surprising that little research exists that explores the relationships among public health entities and health journalists 
 
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health
print journalism
politics and government
news
broadcasting and media
 
 
Cho, Hyunyi, So, Jiyeon, and Lee, Jinro Personal, social, and cultural correlates of self-efficacy beliefs among South Korean college smokers 337-345
 
  Much research has documented the significant influence of self-efficacy on smoking cessation, but considerably less is known as to what health communicators can do to promote or address barriers to self-efficacy 
 
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asia
interpersonal
drugs
health
 
 
Boot, Cecile R. L., Meijman, Frans J., and van Dulmen, Sandra Beliefs about the causes of health complaints: A study in primary care 346-350
 
  In public and interpersonal health communication, a need exists to explore the nature of lay beliefs about health complaints to achieve effective communication 
 
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interpersonal
health
 
 
Noland, Carey M., and Rickles, Nathaniel M. Reflection and analysis of how pharmacy students learn to communicate about medication errors 351-360
 
  Medication errors are a serious and costly problem 
 
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health
education
 
 
Lee, Annisa Lai Changing effects of direct-to-consumer broadcast drug advertising information sources on prescription drug requests 361-376
 
  This study tracks the changes of the effects of 4 information sources for direct-to-consumer drug advertising on patients' requests for prescription drugs from physicians since the inception of the "Guidance for Industry about Consumer-directed Broadcast Advertisements." The Guidance advises pharmaceuticals to use four information sources for consumers to seek further information to supplement broadcast drug advertisements: small-print information, the Internet, a toll-free number, and health-care providers (nurses, doctors, and pharmacists) 
 
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advertising
economics
health
computer
technologies
interpersonal