Speaking from the margins: Communication strategies used in African American HIV prevention campaigns in Alabama

Myrick, Roger

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“…However, in the opinion of a sample of Alaskan women at risk for HIV infection, to be effective, outreach workers need not be similar to targets with respect to race, gender, or age, but do need to be pleasant and have similar life experiences to the targets (Fenaughty & Namyniuk, 2004). In addition, in a study with teens by Jemmott et al (1998), matching the ethnicity of leaders and the target youth was unrelated to the effectiveness of interventions for African American youth, even though matching age is reportedly important for teen audiences (Kalafat & Elias, 1994; Milburn, 1995; Myrick & Folk, 1991; Myrick, 1996; Ozer, Weinstein, Maslack, & Siegel, 1997; Philliber, 1999; Reeder, Pryor, & Harsh, 1997; Stuart, Waalen, & Haelstromm, 2003; Tindal & Salmon-White, 1990; Wolf, Bond, & Tawfik, 2000; but see Department for Education and Skills, U.K., 2000). Finally, Pealer et al (2004) recently reported that an analysis of the data from a multisite trial (Project RESPECT) revealed no significant association of intervention completion or new STIs with either the demographic characteristics of the 32 counselors who participated in the project or demographic matching between the interventionists and clients.…”

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Conceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV-prevention interventionists for different groups.

Durantini¹,

Albarracín²,

Mitchell³

et al. 2006

Psychological Bulletin

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A meta-analysis of 166 HIV-prevention interventions tested theoretical predictions about the effects of experts, lay community members, and similar and dissimilar others, as agents of change. In general, expert interventionists produced greater behavior change than lay community members, and the demographic and behavioral similarity between the interventionist and the recipients facilitated behavioral change. Equally importantly, there were differences across groups in the efficacy of various sources, especially among populations of low status and/or power. These findings support the hypothesis that unempowered populations are more sensitive to characteristics of the interventionists who can facilitate access to various resources. In addition, they suggest the need to ensure the availability of health professionals from diverse demographic and behavioral backgrounds.

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Conceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV-prevention interventionists for different groups.

Durantini¹,

Albarracín²,

Mitchell³

et al. 2006

Psychological Bulletin

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120

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“…For the most part, health ecologies (Collins 2001;Hunarī and Boleyn 1999), geographies of health (Gatrell 2005;Kearns 1993;Kearns and Moon 2002) and medical anthropologies (Myrick 1996;Nichter and Nichter 1996) Journal of Political Ecology…”

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Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease

Connolly

Kotsila

D’Alisa

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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Political ecology has, in the past decade, emerged as an increasingly accepted framework for studying issues of health and disease and has thus given rise to a distinct sub-field: the political ecologies of health and disease (PEHD). More recently, scholars have suggested more specific avenues through which the sub-field can be further developed and focused. Building on recent work, we suggest that the role of health perceptions and health discourses is one area that could benefit from examination through the lens of political ecology. The papers in this special section thus intend to further contribute to the empirical richness of this area of study, through an emphasis on anthropological and cultural aspects of health injustices. We emphasize the role of health perceptions, in particular, as a way of exploring how people's experiences of the local environment often differ from dominant discourses related to un/healthy environments, and the effects stemming from this disjuncture. Keywords: Political ecology of health, disease, perceptions, discourse, ethnography, environmental justice RésuméAu cours de la dernière décennie, l'écologie politique a émergé comme cadre analytique de plus en plus courant pour étudier des questions de santé et de maladie, jusqu'à devenir un sous-domaine à part entière: l'écologie politique de santé et de maladies. Plus récemment, certains chercheurs ont suggéré des pistes plus spécifiques permettant de développer et orienter ce sous-domaine. A partir de travaux récents, nous suggérons que le rôle de perceptions de la santé et de discours sur la santé constitue un champ qui pourrait gagner à être analysé par le biais de l'écologie politique. Les articles dans cette section visent donc à contribuer à la richesse empirique de ce champ de recherche, en mettant l'accent sur les aspects anthropologiques et culturels d'injustices de santé. Nous soulignons le rôle des perceptions de la santé, en particulier, comme manière d'explorer comment les expériences populaires de l'environnement local souvent divergent des discours dominants sur des environnements sains/malsains, et les effets de cette divergence.

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Speaking from the margins: Communication strategies used in African American HIV prevention campaigns in Alabama

Cited by 4 publications

References 62 publications

Conceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV-prevention interventionists for different groups.

Conceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV-prevention interventionists for different groups.

Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease

Responding to ambiguity: HIV communication campaigns for gay and bisexual African Americans

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