Health Communication

Rina Alcalay is an emertis professor of public health sciences at UC Davis. Her research involves the effective communication strategies to prevent depression among populations in transition, such as people who have changed cultures, who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease, or who are aging. Shana Alex Lavarreda is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. As the Center's director of Health InsuranceStudies, she works with numerous projects, including the State of Health Insurance in California (SHIC) project and the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP). The SHIC project acts as a statewide and national resource for health insurance information, creating and disseminating reports, fact sheets, policy briefs and on-demand data estimates. As a member of the cost analysis team with CHBRP, Lavarreda estimates the impact of health insurance benefit mandates pending in the state's legislature. Lavarreda is also an expert on health insurance data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Changing Health Needs - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex The Imperative for a Multicultural Paradigm The Emergence of a New Public Health Paradigm in the United States - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex The Evolution of Health Communication in the United States - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex A Multicultural Society - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex Facing a New Culture Communicating with Multicultural Populations - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex A Theoretical Framework PART TWO: HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN HIGH-RISK MULTICULTURAL POPULATIONS Childhood Unintentional Injury Prevention - Deborah Glik and Angela Mickalide Multicultural Perspectives The Usefulness of the 'Health Diary' - Karen Thiel Raykovich, James A Wells and Clifford Binder Findings from a Case Study of Six Healthy Start Sites Parent-Child Communication in Drug Abuse Prevention among Adolescents - Gauri Bhattacharya The Effectiveness of Peer Education in STD/HIV Prevention - Donald E Morisky and Vicki J Ebin Health Communication for HIV Risk Reduction among Homeless Youth - Lisa A Russell The Community as Classroom - Len Levy Storms et al A Health Communication Program Among Older Samoan and American Indian Women Health Communication Campaign Design - Robert A Bell and Rina E Alcalay Lessons from the California 'Wellness Guide' Distribution Project PART THREE: EVALUATION OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN MULTICULTURAL POPULATIONS Evaluation of Multicultural Health Communication - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex Lessons Learned and Implications - Snehendu B Kar, Rina Alcalay with Shana Alex