Accurate, timely information can be a powerful tool to mitigate harmful effects of air pollution.
While national guidelines for environmental risk communication–based on risk and crisis …

The aim of this review was to evaluate the association between parental oral health literacy
and children's oral health outcomes. A comprehensive search was conducted across four …

Names: Juhila, Kirsi, editor.| Raitakari, Suvi, editor.| Hall, Christopher, 1948-editor. Title:
Responsibilization at the margins of welfare services/edited by Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari …

Narrative messages have the potential to convey causal attribution information about
complex social issues. This study examined attributions about obesity, an issue …

This essay describes how individuals have increasingly used the language of medicine to
seek legal rights and benefits. These claims have often been applied to conditions that …

Abstract Political orientation (Republican/Democrat and conservative/liberal) and political
environment (geo-spatial political party affiliated voting patterns) are both associated with …

A substantial body of research describes the distribution, causes and potential reduction of
health inequalities, yet little scholarship examines public understandings of these …

Based on a public health model of obesity, this study set out to examine whether a news
article reporting the obesity issue in a societal versus individual frame would increase …

This study attempts to advance theorizing about narrative persuasion by explicating types of
thoughts, beyond counterarguing, generated in response to a short narrative with …

This study tests whether policy narratives designed to increase support for obesity-reducing
public policies should explicitly acknowledge individual responsibility while emphasizing …