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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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