Did You Know? Reaching this milestone can affect your health 12/19/2014 December 19, 2014 Your race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and whether you graduate from high school may influence how healthy you are—find out why.  The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends high school completion programs for students at risk for not getting their diplomas, and for improving health equity. You can access helpful materials on promoting health equity through education programs and policies. Did You Know? will return on Friday, January 2.  Get Did You Know? on your website Subscribe Submit an idea   Provided by the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Communication Science Digest -- December 2014 12/19/2014 Dear colleagues, We wish you all Happy Holidays! and thought we’d give you a gift: The December issue of Health Communication Science Digest (HCSD or Digest) is now available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/ScienceDigest/index.html In the Digest this month several authors report on health communication intervention design and evaluation (Biroscak, et al.; Crombie, et al.; Resnicow, et al.; van Zyl, et al.). Writers examining health message design factors discuss both anecdotes (Ricketts) and visual imagery (Juszczyk, et al.; Zhoa, et al.). The expanding role of new media health messaging (Freeman, et al.; Liang, et al; Merchant, et al.) and several perspectives health message design factors health messaging via traditional media (Clinton-McHarg, et al.; Lambert & Wu; Suran, et al.) are also detailed. Additionally, aspects of health literacy (Franzen, et al.; Ng & Omariba; Victorson, et al.) are discussed. Please remember that you can access all issues of the “Health Communication Science Digest” series online via the searchable Health Communication Science Digest Archive. We hope that you find the Health Communication Science Digest useful and invite you to provide us with feedback for improvement. Please send us articles that you would like to share with others—articles you or your colleagues have published or found useful. Please send your comments and questions to [log in to unmask]. We wish you much success and joy in your public health work in the New Year! Doğan Eroğlu Associate Director for Communication Science Office of the Associate Director for Communication Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA             The CDC has reached 1 million email subscribers. Thank you for your support. | Learn about CDC Updates Questions or problems? Please contact [log in to unmask]. T,on behalf of: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • 1600 Clifton Rd • Atlanta, GA 30329-4027 • 1-800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)

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