Lawrence Wallack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Wallack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallack |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liana B. Winett and Lawrence Wallack are with the School of Community Health, Portland State University, Portland, OR. Alyssa B. Wulf is with Real Reason, Oakland, CA. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Framing Strategies to Avoid Mother-Blame in Communicating the Origins of Chronic Disease
Evolving research in epigenetics and the developmental origins of health and disease offers tremendous promise in explaining how the social environment, place, and resources available to us have enduring effects on our health. Troubling from a communications perspective, however, is the tendency in framing the science to hold mothers almost uniquely culpable for their offspring’s later disease risk. The purpose of this article is to add to the co…
More Than a Message
Framing battles in public health illustrate the tension in our society between individual freedom and collective responsibility. This article describes how two frames, market justice and social justice, first articulated in a public health context by Dan Beauchamp, influence public dialogue on the health consequences of corporate practices. The authors argue that public health advocates must articulate the social justice values motivating the cha…
Talking About Public Health
The mission of public health—improving the health of populations—is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first “language” of American culture is individualism. A second American language of community—rooted in egalitarianism, humanitarianism, and human interconn…
Putting Policy into Health Communication
Alcohol in the news
Alcohol is infrequently mentioned in the news. The occasional portrayals rarely depict problems or prevention, instead reinforcing the idea that alcohol is part of the good life or, at best, neutral. Substantive alcohol stories that do appear often report on research or advocacy. Researchers could, and should, have a stronger presence in the news
Primary prevention
Practical issues, ethical concerns and future directions in the prevention of alcohol-related problems
Talking About Public Health
The mission of public health—improving the health of populations—is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first “language” of American culture is individualism. A second American language of community—rooted in egalitarianism, humanitarianism, and human interconn…
Primary prevention
Framing Strategies to Avoid Mother-Blame in Communicating the Origins of Chronic Disease
Evolving research in epigenetics and the developmental origins of health and disease offers tremendous promise in explaining how the social environment, place, and resources available to us have enduring effects on our health. Troubling from a communications perspective, however, is the tendency in framing the science to hold mothers almost uniquely culpable for their offspring’s later disease risk. The purpose of this article is to add to the co…
Practical issues, ethical concerns and future directions in the prevention of alcohol-related problems
Primary prevention
Alcohol in the news
Alcohol is infrequently mentioned in the news. The occasional portrayals rarely depict problems or prevention, instead reinforcing the idea that alcohol is part of the good life or, at best, neutral. Substantive alcohol stories that do appear often report on research or advocacy. Researchers could, and should, have a stronger presence in the news
Putting Policy into Health Communication
More Than a Message
Framing battles in public health illustrate the tension in our society between individual freedom and collective responsibility. This article describes how two frames, market justice and social justice, first articulated in a public health context by Dan Beauchamp, influence public dialogue on the health consequences of corporate practices. The authors argue that public health advocates must articulate the social justice values motivating the cha…
Talking About Public Health
The mission of public health—improving the health of populations—is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first “language” of American culture is individualism. A second American language of community—rooted in egalitarianism, humanitarianism, and human interconn…
Framing Strategies to Avoid Mother-Blame in Communicating the Origins of Chronic Disease
Evolving research in epigenetics and the developmental origins of health and disease offers tremendous promise in explaining how the social environment, place, and resources available to us have enduring effects on our health. Troubling from a communications perspective, however, is the tendency in framing the science to hold mothers almost uniquely culpable for their offspring’s later disease risk. The purpose of this article is to add to the co…
Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Health promotion (3 works) · Public Health Policies and Education (3 works)