This book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.
Last modified: July 23, 2021
Language: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu
This page provides a series of soap operas and films produced as part of the Pakistan Health Communication Component project, 2014-2018.
Included are:
Source: USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: July 15, 2021
Internews works with Translators without Borders and other groups to collect and analyze rumors and misinformation related to COVID-19. Data is collected in six languages across Asia.
This bulletin relies on social media data collected by monitors working for Internews and partner organizations. Data is collected both manually and with the use of specialist monitoring platforms. The bulletin aims to provide tools and resources to help journalists and community workers to respond to misinformation they encounter in their work.
Last modified: July 15, 2021
Language: Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has created a three-minute video called “Making of No-Cost Face Masks at Home to Prevent the Spread of the Coronavirus“. It has been uploaded separately in 12 other major Indian languages thus enabling the free face mask message to be understood throughout rural and urban India, and have been designed specifically for poor and lower middle class households, including for non-readers.
These short videos demonstrate how these vulnerable families can easily make no-cost face masks/coverings at home, use them hygienically and observe related precautions. They can be used by all those working in government agencies, and NGOs in health, community and adult education/school programmes and any awareness-raising activities related to Covid-19.
The list of the video in 12 major Indian languages is below.
Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
Date of Publication: August 26, 2020
This video was created to encourage co-workers to talk to one another about adhering to COVID-19 precautions. JHU CCP Pakistan is facilitating the Labor Standards Programme of GIZ Pakistan in its behavior change efforts focused on industrial workers, particularly those working in the textile sector. The well-known characters of Billo and Dhiloo, who have been featured in other videos educating the workers on other work safety topics,are back with important information regarding COVID-19.
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: July 21, 2020
The team at VitalTalk crowdsourced this playbook to provide some practical advice to health care professionals on how to talk to their patients about some difficult topics related to COVID-19.
Building on their experience studying and teaching communication they’ve drawn on their networks to crowdsource the challenges and match them with advice from some of the best clinicians they know.
Last modified: June 18, 2020
Language: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese
This page provides a series of music videos and jingles produced as part of the Pakistan Health Communication Component project, 2014-2018.
Included are:
Source: USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
This page provides a series of television advertisements produced as part of the Pakistan Health Communication Component project, 2014-2018.
The ads include:
Source: USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
This toolkit includes counseling cards in Urdu for 22 distinct health topics related to Maternal and Child Health. The counseling cards are intended to support Pakistani Lady Health Workers as they conduct household visits. Each card follows a three-step counseling process informed by cognitive behavioral therapy.
Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
This 20 minute video tells the story of a young couple who have recently had their first child. There is family pressure for them to have another child soon. The husband and his mother quarrel about the couple’s decision, but after the mother witnessses her friend’s grandchildren suffering, she realizes that the young couple is right and tells them she has agreed that they should space their children.
Source: Health Communication Component, Pakistan
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
