INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM
This symposium concerns communication effectiveness in public health. For quite some time, I have been troubled that public health effectiveness scholarship has focused on effectiveness at the programmatic level as opposed to the institutional level. There is no
In the pages that follow, various authors offer a wide variety of views surrounding this central issue. The first three articles, "Assessing Communications Effectiveness in Meeting Corporate Goals of Public Health Organizations" by Gordon D. Brown, Kenneth D. Bopp, and Suzanne Austin Boren, "Communication Between Public Health Agencies and Their External Stakeholders" by Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. and Wesley M. Rohrer, and "Public Relations Effectiveness in Public Health Institutions" by Jeffrey K. Springston and Ruth Ann Weaver Lariscy, examine effectiveness questions from broad perspectives.