TY - JOUR
TI - Crush Cancer! The communication strategy of the Rak’n’Roll Foundation as an example of an alternative form of communicating about health
AU - Hess, Agnieszka
TI - Crush Cancer! The communication strategy of the Rak’n’Roll Foundation as an example of an alternative form of communicating about health
AB - 
	The goal of this article is an analysis of the function, which NGOs perform in the health system in Poland, as well as their participation in universal-social debate concerning health. The object of this paper, is Communications strategy of the Rak’n’Roll Foundation, one of the Polish NGOs with the highest level of recognition, operating in the sphere of health. On the basis of the author’s own research, she describes the activities undertaken by the Foundation to create and develop mutual relations with the media and analyze how it is represented in the media, as well as the efficacy of its own means of communication. She raises the question as to whether the communication activities of the “Rak’n’Roll” Foundation aim to improve the health care system (support) or does it rather contribute to an “overloading of the system” (that is a situation where the demands of individuals exceed the ability of the state to act) or perhaps they don’t have any greater significance on an institutional level?
	 
VL - 2015
IS - Tom 58, Numer 2 (222)
PY - 2015
SN - 0555-0025
C1 - 2299-6362
SP - 423
EP - 439
DO - 10.4467/2299-6362PZ.15.030.4140 
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/artykul/crush-cancer-the-communication-strategy-of-the-rakn-roll-foundation-as-an-example-of-an-alternative-form-of-communicating-about-health
KW - NGO
KW - communications strategy
KW - health care
KW - mediatization