Deliver Life was a campaign implemented in Malawi to emphasize the importance of practicing and sustaining good hygiene practices like hand washing with soap, using latrines prope…
This paper explores five different approaches to antibiotic stewardship, providing examples of how international collaborations can address optimal prescribing. Each approach exam…
Developed in two phases, the Smarter Travel initiative had an overall goal of decreasing the number of trips made by car in the Outer Boroughs of London, promoting walking, cyclin…
In the early 2000s, childhood obesity became a critical health issue in the United States identified by the Centers for Disease Control. In response to this development, the popul…
Launched by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), Healthy Penis was a social marketing campaign designed to increase syphilis testing and awareness among gay and …
Created as part of a larger HIV prevention project, the campaign described here was developed to reduce new HIV infections among the most-at-risk-populations in Vietnam – sex work…
In the summer of 2008, Réseau Africain de l’Éducation pour la Santé (RAES) developed and implemented a health communications pilot project targeting secondary school students thro…
Gulfside Healthcare Services’ healthcare workers care for the majority of their patients at home. Because workers are not always in the same setting (or in a controlled environmen…
In 2003, the Utah Cancer Action Network (UCAN), which aims to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in the state, selected skin and colon cancers as their top priorities. With the…
In an effort to increase colorectal cancer screening rates among low-income Asian Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans ages 50 to 75, Cook County created the Colorectal Can…