Health Communication Research: Four Decades of Dedication to Enhancing Public Health

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Kaushal, R. K., Bhardwaj, R., Kumar, N., Aljohani, A. A., Gupta, S. K., Singh, P., & Purohit, N. (2022). Using Mobile Computing to Provide a Smart and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Framework for Medical Applications. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8741357

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Matricardi, P. M., Dramburg, S., Alvarez‐Perea, A., Antolín‐Amérigo, D., Apfelbacher, C., Atanaskovic‐Markovic, M., Berger, U., Blaiss, M. S., Blank, S., Boni, E., Bonini, M., Bousquet, J., Brockow, K., Buters, J., Cardona, V., Caubet, J., Cavkaytar, Ö., Elliott, T., Esteban‐Gorgojo, I., … Agache, I. (2020). The Role of Mobile Health Technologies in Allergy Care: An EAACI Position Paper. Allergy, 75(2), 259–272. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.13953

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Richards, A. S., Bessarabova, E., Banas, J. A., & Bernard, D. R. (2022). Reducing Psychological Reactance to Health Promotion Messages: Comparing Preemptive and Postscript Mitigation Strategies. Health Communication, 37(3), 366–374. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1839203

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Sönmez, M. E. (2024). A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications at the Intersection of Health Communication and Artificial Intelligence. Akdeniz University Faculty of Communication Journal, (44), 66–90. (In Turkish). https://doi.org/10.31123/akil.1428134

Stolow, J. A., Moses, L. M., Lederer, A. M., & Carter, R. (2020). How Fear Appeal Approaches in COVID-19 Health Communication May Harm the Global Community. Health Education & Behavior, 47(4), 531–535. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120935073

Taba, M., Ayre, J., McCaffery, K., Vassilenko, D., Ma, I. C. K., Haynes, T., Leask, J., Wilson, A., & Bonner, C. (2025). Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory Research Study. Health Expectations, 28(2), e70203. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70203

Tran, B. X., Dang, A. K., Thai, P. K., Le, H. T., Le, X. T. T., Do, T. T. T., Nguyen, T. H., Pham, H. Q., Phan, H. T., Vu, G. T., Phung, D. T., Nghiem, S. H., Nguyen, T. H., Tran, T. D., Do, K. N., Truong, D. V., Vu, G. V., Latkin, C. A., Ho, R. C. M., & Ho, C. S. H. (2020). Coverage of Health Information by Different Sources in Communities: Implication for COVID-19 Epidemic Response. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(10), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103577

Zelan, Z. (2025). The Role of Disinformation in Health Communication: The Case of The Mpox Disease. TRT Academy, 10(23), 140–181. (In Turkish). https://doi.org/10.37679/trta.1569270