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Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 714 Views anti-vaccination, design, design thinking, empathy, evidence, health, health communications, health literacy, Julie Leask, language, media, public health, qualitative research, Twitter, vaccination, wicked problems

When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The

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Attack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 662 Views anti-vaccination, evidence, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Ghanie-Opondo, Penn and Teller, public health, science, social media, Toronto Public Health

Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to

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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1021 Views Andre Picard, Cameron Norman, CENSE Research + Design, Globe and Mail, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, journalism, knowledge transfer, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, network theory, population health, public engagement, research, social media, social networks, Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Twitter, vaccination, youth

Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social

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The Importance of Journalism to Public Health: 10 Years After SARS How Are We Doing?

April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1433 Views developmental design, developmental evaluation, evidence, health communications, health reporting, Helen Branswell, journalism, Julie Leask, media, public health, social media, systems thinking, Wayne MacPhail

If a health scare manifested itself in the world and there were no journalists to cover the story, what would

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The Know-Do Gap in Knowledge Translation Human Resources

April 6, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 582 Views Allan Best, cancer control, health communications, health human resources, knowledge integration, knowledge translation, systems thinking

Health content needs systems in place to do support its integration into practice. These are human systems and those are built on relationships. We are starting to pay more attention to the way in which content is created now it is time to pay as much attention to how it is translated in real human terms and create the same kinds of supports for people that we try to do for content.

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Social Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change Theories?

October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 625 Views eHealth, health behaviour change, health communications, psychology, public health, social media, Twitter

The revolution most likely will be Tweeted, but whether that is the cause or the consequence is why research on social media and social activism is needed. Otherwise, we will wind up with another chicken and egg problem.

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Social Marketing, Marketers and Responsibility

September 19, 2010January 24, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 440 Views ethics, health communications, knowledge translation, public health, Seth Godin, social marketing

Social marketing can be a problem when what we ‘sell’ has unintended consequences. These are discussed in light of certain health behaviour change concepts and theories.