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JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 167-194Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10810730490447020
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Referring to literature in sociology, mass communication, and public health, we conceptualize and operationally define health social capital and individual health social capital and then posit and test a model for its development in response to a public health media campaign. The campaign evaluated here was designed to stimulate behaviors that would provide a more supportive social environment for children and youth, an environment which we consider to be richer in aggregate health social capital. The association model of advertising was employed to explain the development of individual health social capital measures of awareness, attitude, and behavior. With cross-sectional data (1998, n = 614; 1999, n = 1,087; 2000, n = 1,388), we examine the results for changes in awareness, attitude, and behavior over time and the significant links between these dependent variables and media campaign exposure. The results show significant increases in awareness and attitude, but not in behavior. Structural equation modeling revealed different patterns of influence for newspaper and TV campaign exposure.
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