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Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 557 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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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 813 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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Seeing Simplicity / Seeing Complexity

October 24, 2009May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 406 Views complexity, decision making, health, public health, simplicity, smoking, social media, tobacco control, vaccination

We often confuse simplicity and complexity, which can have harmful effects on our health and social wellbeing. The confusion between the complex and the simple as it relates to public health is discussed in this look at issues like vaccination and cigarette smoking.