title: Health education: message and medium.
abstract: During 1979, 1980 and 1981, the Scottish Health Education Unit of the Scottish Health Service Common Services Agency is funding a research project involving the production and evaluation of six video recorded health education programmes. The project is being undertaken by the Department of Community Medicine of the Forth Valley Health Board and the Department of Continuing Medicine, Stirling University. In the first of two articles, Dr J.L. Graham, Chief Administrative Medical Officer, Forth Valley Health Board, and Chairman of the project's steering committee, describes the benefits of this approach.
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012606:Scotland