Opening of the International Congress on Health Communication @ Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron by @ Fran Garcia, Director of Communication, Corporate Strategy and Citizen Care #HealthCommsCongressVH

🌞 Bon dia! Avui és el Dia Mundial de la Salut Mental.  Es calcula que 1 de cada 4 persones tindran problemes de salut mental al llarg de la seva vida.  En aquest fil us compartim la recerca que s'ha dut a terme recentment en aquesta línia. #RecercaUPF

How to Report Research on the Communication of Health-Related Numbers: The Research on Communicating Numbers (ReCoN) Guidelines journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @smdm.bsky.social @bzikmund.bsky.social @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au

How to Report Research on the Communication of Health-Related Numbers: The Research on Communicating Numbers (ReCoN) Guidelines - Natalie C. Benda, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, Jessica S. Ancker, 2025

Background Research with lay audiences (e.g., patients, the public) can inform the communication of health-related numerical information. However, a recent syst...

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"Comunicación del cáncer con impacto: una mirada a través de los modelos mentales de los jóvenes" Presentación a cargo de Julia Guerrero Alcántara en el #CGutenberg25 sobre su proyecto de tesis doctoral, centrado en mejorar la comunicación sobre el cáncer de piel @casresearchgroup.bsky.social

Mesa Redonda: Comunicación científica versus neurofolclore, con Júlia Bestard, Estefanía Estévez e Ignacio Morgado moderado por @gemarevuelta.bsky.social #CGutenberg25 @ccsupf.bsky.social

Presentació dels resultats del estudi sobre escenaris de futur per al periodisme i les empreses de mitjans, fet en el marc de la Càtedra Futurs de la Comunicación @upf.edu, a carrer de Bertrán Salvador-Mata i Joan Corbella Cordomí

Ha sido un lujo participar en esta monografía de la Fundación Dr. Antoni Esteve junto con otros expertos en comunicación en salud, para abordar avances recientes en este ámbito. Disponible en acceso abierto👇 La investigación en comunicación sobre medicamentos y salud esteve.org/es/publicaci...

La investigación en comunicación sobre medicamentos y salud - Fundació Dr. Antoni Esteve

¿Qué tipo de información sobre salud y fármacos recibe la ciudadanía a través de la prensa? La Fundación Dr. Antoni Esteve publica la Monografía La investigación en comunicación sobre medicamentos y s...

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Seminar Reminder! Mark this date to join the upcoming seminar! Prof. Jessica Ancker will present on "Making Numbers Meaningful: Lessons from a Systematic Review on Risk and Data Communication." #SharedDecisionMaking May 14th 3:00 PM UTC Register here: tinyurl.com/ydj3xb2k

📢📢 Are you thinking about spending one or two years as a postdoc in a very active research environment? Exciting opportunity to join the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow! 👇👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships candidates – health communication, risk perception and communication, judgment and decision making

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Looks like a very interesting paper!

Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin)@arc-mpib.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New from Ralph Hertwig @susanmichie.bsky.social @robertjwest.bsky.social & Stephen Reicher. They argue for a shift from nudging to boosting empowering people with skills for lasting behaviour change to tackle global challenges like climate change. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 ¡Nueva colaboración entre el proyecto Nutrimedia y el ecosistema de transferencia de conocimiento ARSENAL de la Facultad de Comunicación @upf.edu! Excelente noticia para la difusión de la evidencia científica sobre nutrición, que facilitará las #decisionesinformadas www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/...

El projecte Nutrimedia i ARSENAL UPF uneixen esforços per difondre missatges de nutrició i salut

El projecte Nutrimedia, de la UPF i el Centre Cochrane Iberoamericà (CCIb), serà present als carrers de Barcelona a partir del 15 d'abril amb una campanya de comunicació del CCIb sobre els seus projec...

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We’re delighted that our About Cancer website pages have passed the Patient Information Forum’s #PIFTick accreditation for another year! This means we’re an accredited provider of trusted patient and health information. Find out what this means: pifonline.org.uk/pif-tick/

Presentació del llibre sobre La Democracia en Riesgo, editad per Frederic Guerrero-Solé @anthropies.bsky.social i Laura Pérez-Altable @lauraperezaltable.bsky.social. Taula rodona amb la Arantxa Capdevilla, Carlota Moragas i Letícia Rodríguez @upf.edu, Departament de Comunicació

Successes and Failures: Everything We Learned from Health Communication Campaigns and Programs - inaugural Special Issue of @jhealthcomm.bsky.social, just published - includes 9 peer-reviewed research papers from health communication programs around the world www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhcm20/3...

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Successes and Failures: Everything We Learned from Health Communication Campaigns and Programs. Volume 30, Issue sup1 of Journal of Health Communication

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This study found that web-based resources did not meet criteria for appropriate education to support adults measuring blood pressure at home. We've found similar issues with websites about many health conditions. infodemiology.jmir.org/2025/1/e55248

Appropriateness of Web-Based Resources for Home Blood Pressure Measurement and Their Alignment With Guideline Recommendations, Readability, and End User Involvement: Environmental Scan of Web-Based Re...

Background: High blood pressure (≥140/90 mm Hg) is the most prominent mortality risk factor worldwide. Home blood pressure measurement (HBPM) is recommended for blood pressure (BP) management. HBPM is...

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Hoy es el Día Mundial contra el Cáncer de Colon. Una investigación española realizada a 57 000 personas concluye que la prueba de sangre en heces es equivalente y menos invasiva que la colonoscopia para detectar esta enfermedad. www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/La-...

La colonoscopia y el test de sangre en heces son pruebas equivalentes para detectar cáncer de colon

Una investigación realizada a 57 000 personas concluye que la prueba de sangre en heces es equivalente y menos invasiva que la colonoscopia para detectar el cáncer colorrectal, una afección que se rei...

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Sesión informativa en línea del Màster Universitario en Investigación en Comunicación. Jueves, 10 abril 16:00. Inscripción a la sesión en línea: app.geckoform.com/public/#/mod... Info sobre el máster: www.upf.edu/web/master-i...

The Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review papers are now available! Review of 316 papers on communicating health-related probabilities to the public. 1,119 findings. Methods / scoping paper, 6 evidence summary papers, 5 editorials. All open access. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

"We urge all leaders, not to ignore or contradict advice that is supported by a consensus of evidence. We urge policymakers to help boost people’s confidence in vaccines, and not to undermine scientific and medical institutions or the process of research." www.nature.com/artic...

Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them

Nature - Attacks on vaccines and the cancellation of research into what causes vaccine hesitancy puts people in harm’s way.

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🤳 Rere l’algoritme de TikTok: quin és l’impacte en els joves de l’exitosa xarxa social? Analitzarem TikTok des del vessant de la recerca en comunicació en un nou webinar del cicle #2025AmbUllsUPF. 📅 27 de març, 18.00 h 📌 en línia Apunta't a la sessió 👇 www.upf.edu/web/alumni/w...

Analizan herramientas de IA generativa para búsqueda (chatGPT, Perplexity, Deepseek, Copilot, Grok y Gemini). Mayoritariamente presentan respuestas inexactas con gran confianza, mostrando mayor probabilidad de proporcionar respuestas incorrectas que reconocer limitaciones www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Read our MJA Insight+ article about @melodytaba.bsky.social's PhD research with @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social - outlining 5 things you can do to engage young people in social media communication about health: insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/10/how-...

How to use social media for health communication with young people - InSight+

With 82% of young people using social media for health information, it’s increasingly important for health professionals to cut through online misinformation with reliable and appealing social media h...

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"You can help people rebuild their confidence by breaking actions into smaller steps, providing clear and accessible guidance, and creating social reinforcement through visible adoption from their neighbors and peers"

Behavioral Scientist@behscientist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why do people feel more alone in supporting climate action than they really are? Americans overwhelmingly support climate-friendly policies, yet they underestimate how many others feel the same. Breaking this perception gap is key to wider climate action. behavioralscientist.org/we-still-und...

Glad to have been a part of the working group to create the GROVE reporting guideline for vignette experiments in healthcare. A useful guide for any researchers conducting or reporting health-related vignettes - now published in PEC! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Development of GROVE: a Guideline for RepOrting Vignette Experiments conducted in a healthcare context

Experimental studies using vignettes investigate the impact of healthcare professional or patient/client characteristics, communication, and/or other …

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Very concerning. What's next? Burning people at the stake for claiming the earth is round?

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 2y ago

My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

Today is #InternationalWomensDay Progress on #GenderEquality in health care is too slow. Women have distinct & changing health needs at different stages of their lives. Health care should be easy to access, fair & tailored to meet each woman’s unique needs & circumstances. 🔗 bit.ly/3DmZQ2o

El porqué de la brecha salarial en el ámbito académico theconversation.com/el-porque-de...

El porqué de la brecha salarial en el ámbito académico

Un 34 % de las personas con contrato de investigación son mujeres en la Unión Europea. Sus carreras se ven condicionadas por factores que inciden en menos publicaciones e investigaciones.

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Early-onset colorectal cancer is expected to become the leading cause of #cancer death in ages 20 to 49 in the U.S. by 2030. Research is urgently needed to better detect and treat patients, argues this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4h1TYcQ #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth

A common cancer at an uncommon age

The etiology of early-onset colorectal cancer needs to be understood to tackle rising incidence

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This important piece has already received media attention from around the world: ➡️ The University of Sydney media release here: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... ➡️ The Guardian article here: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... ➡️ The New York Times article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...

Influencers promoting ‘overwhelmingly’ misleading information about medical tests on social media

Influencers have been found to be promoting “overwhelmingly” misleading information about medical tests on Instagram and TikTok in a global University of Sydney-led study.

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Communicating Probabilities of Cervical Cancer Screening Results with Icon Arrays or Tree Diagrams: Longitudinal Experiment @yasminaokan.bsky.social @dafinapetrova.bsky.social et al: Icon arrays --> lasting knowledge of approx probabilities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2024.2421612

Communicating Probabilities of Cervical Cancer Screening Results with Icon Arrays or Tree Diagrams: A Longitudinal Experiment

Simple graphical displays such as icon arrays and tree diagrams have been proposed for communicating health risks and supporting informed decisions. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) uses tree...

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