Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A Resource Book

Abstract

Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit PART ONE: POLITICAL AGENDAS AND WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MESSAGES Medical and Psychological Consequences of Legal Abortion in the United States - Diane Helene Miller A Matter of Consequence - Diane Helene Miller Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman - Robert Lemieux The Prevalance, Social Impact, Effects and Legislative Action The Drama of in utero Drug Exposure - Kimberly N Kline Fetus Takes First Billing PART TWO: HISTORICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Contraception and Clinical Science - Susan Owen and Sally Caudill Constructing Woman's Place Our Bodies, Our Risk - Martha Solomon, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P King Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information The American Experience of Childbirth - Elizabeth Jean Nelson Toward a Range of Safe Choices Contemporary Birthing Practices - Helen M Sterk Technology over Humanity? PART THREE: A FETAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Women and Smoking - Michael Pfau, Margot L Nelson and Mary Moster Consequences and Solutions Tugging at Pregnant Consumers - Deirdre M Condit Competing 'Don't Smoke!' 'Do Smoke!' Media Messages and Their Messengers Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children - Joan Marie Kraft A Review of the Literature Knowing When to Say When and Why - Kathryn J French, Theresa D Frasier and C Jay Frasier Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women's Alcohol Consumption PART FOUR: A CAMPAIGN PERSPECTIVE FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Promoting Pregnancy and Prenatal Care to Women - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret Daniels Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls Prenatal Care from a Woman's Perspective - Margaret Daniels annd Roxanne Louiselle Parrott A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer - Melanie A Williams Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival Magic, Moralism and Marginalization - Michele Kilgore Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer PART FIVE: A SOCIAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause - Pamela J Kalbfleisch and Karen H Bonnel The Communication of Information and Social Support Media Portrayals of Women's Menstrual Health Issues - Pamela J Kalbfleisch, Karen H Bennel and Tina M Harris Social Support and Breast Cancer - Maureen P Keeley Why Do We Talk and To Whom Do We Talk? An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography - Mary L Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer Pain, Promise, and Prevention PART SIX: CONTEMPORARY PRIORITIES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies - Lisa Flores Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies - Celeste M Condit Hysterectomies - Cathey S Ross Don't Ask 'Why Not?': Ask 'Why?' Hysterectomy - E M I Sefcovic What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992) Women and AIDS - Rebecca J Welch Cline and Neyla J McKenzie The Lost Population The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Womens's Health Issue - Salome Raheim CONCLUSION A Woman-Centered 'Sense-Making' Approach to Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott