CONTENTS

Volume 12, Number 2
March 2007

Vol. 12, Number 2: Contents | Editorial | Abstracts

EDITORIAL (HTML | PDF)

An Informed Patient - An Oxymoron in an Information Restricted Society
Scott C. Ratzan

ARTICLES  abstracts from the print version

Media Usage as Health Segmentation Variables
Shelly Rodgers; Qimei Chen; Margaret Duffy; Kenneth Fleming

Fighting AIDS Among Adolescent Women: Effects of a Public Communication Campaign in Brazil
Mauro P. Porto

The "Choose With Care System" - Development of Education Materials to Support Informed Medicare Health Plan Choices
Lauren D. Harris-Kojetin; Jennifer D. Uhrig; Peyton Williams; Carla Bann; Elizabeth M. Frentzel; Lauren McCormack; Nancy Mitchell; Nathan West

The Effectiveness in Utilizing Chinese Media to Promote Breast Health Among Chinese Women
Angela Sun; Jian Zhang; Janice Tsoh; Evaon Wong-Kim; Edward Chow

Healthy or Unhealthy Slogans: That's the Question
Leen Adams; Maggie Geuens

Social Support and Social Undermining as Correlates for Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders in American Indian Women Presenting for Primary Care at an Indian Health Service Hospital
John Oetzel; Bonnie Duran; Yizhou Jiang; Julie Lucero

Book Reviews

Emmers-Sommer, T. & Allen, M. (2005). Safer Sex in Personal Relationships: The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention.
A Review of: "Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Author: Sandra L. Faulkner

Scott, J. Blake (2003). Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing
A Review of: "Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Author: Vickie Harvey