Research project

Health communication

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Research overview

Health messaging is important to raise public awareness and to promote positive decision making with regard to behaviours such as taking up vaccines, invitations to screening for cervix, breast or colorectal cancer, and to shape responses to serious symptoms for stroke or sepsis for example.

Messaging and framing of communication is also important in interactions between patients and doctors, for example in the context of patients inappropriately requesting antibiotics.

Our work in this are seeks to identify elements of effective communication, including the roles of culture or socioeconomic status in effective communication.

Workshops

EEPRU is sponsor to a series of workshops organised by the Antimicrobials, Behaviour and Cognition Network on the role of behaviour in antimicrobial resistance held at the Department of Psychology in 2023 and 2024.

Participants at the 2023 workshop

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