Communicating About Health Current Issues and Perspectives

• Author : Athena DuPré
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Release : 17 August 2022

This text provides a research-based thorough overview of health communication, balancing theory with practical advice and examples that encourage students to further develop their own communication skills. In a broad survey of the field, approached from the perspectives of both caregiver and patient, it offers solid coverage of the history of health care, an examination of culture’s role in health and healing, and a look at current issues and challenges facing health care. The new edition includes expanded coverage

• Author : Grace Hwang
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 August 1993

• Author : Roxanne Parrott
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 30 March 2009

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all. Organized around six key questions about health and communication: How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It?

• Author : Teresa L. Thompson,Nancy Grant Harrington
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 September 2021

A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject’s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline’s leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal

• Author : Athena du Pré,PH D Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Communication Athena Du Pré,Barbara Cook Overton
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 25 June 2020

Now in its sixh edition, Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives continues to live up to its long-standing reputation as the most dynamic and current exploration of health communication on the market. The book offers rich, current research and in-depth analysis of the cultural, social, and organizational issues that influence health communication and health advocacy. Communicating About Health is an indispensable resource for readers seeking to improve their communication abilities in fields related to health. This text explores health

• Author : Clara L. Gaff,Carma L. Bylund
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 17 August 2022

Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making, School of Psychology, University of Sydney --

• Author : Priya Bahri
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 17 June 2020

At the core of this book lies the question how to approach medicines, risks and communication as a researcher - or anybody planning and evaluating a communication intervention, or wanting to understand communication events in private and the media. With a view to tackle current shortcomings of communication systems and processes for improved implementation, patient satisfaction and health outcomes, a multilayered approach is presented. This combines multiple data types and methods to obtain a wider and deeper understanding of the

• Author : Teresa L. Thompson
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 18 April 2014

From the dynamics of interpersonal communication between health professionals and clients to global command-and-control during public health emergencies that cross international borders, the field of health communication bridges many disciplines and involves efforts from the micro to the macro. It involves navigating personal, cultural, and political complexities and an ability to distill complex technical science into quickly and easily understood terms for ready distribution by the mass media--or to an individual patient or to the parent of an ailing child.

• Author : Philip C.R. Gray,Richard M. Stern,Marco Biocca
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 18 April 2013

Public experience with risk communication differs greatly from country to country in Europe and there has been little opportunity for the transfer of experience and learning between countries. This is especially true for the many new European States, including the countries in transition from centralised to market economies. This book presents case studies on risk communication. One of its unifying concepts is the role of risk communication in the risk management process. Technical and philosophical introductions to risk communication and

• Author : Dale E Brashers,Daena Goldsmith
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 August 2009

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness is a valuable resource for those in the field of health and interpersonal communication, public health, medicine, and related health disciplines. This scholarly edited volume advances the theoretical bases of health communication in two key areas: 1) communication, identity, and relationships; and 2) health care provider patient interaction. Chapters aim to underscore the theory that communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various facets of health and illness. Contributors to

• Author : Dr. Jerry C. Parker, PhD,Dr. Esther Thorson, PhD
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 20 October 2008

"This is a timely discussion of using new information technologies and media for communicating diverse health information to diverse audiences. This book is useful, readable, current, well organized, and seems to be a unique contribution." --Doody's "In this volume there are examples of how advances in technology not only empower individuals in their interactions with a health system but also enable health professionals to better tailor their work and time for the benefit of patients and clients." -Paul R. Gully,

• Author : Belinda Lewis
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 02 December 2014

This book is about communicating for health and social change. With a clear focus on public health and health promotion practice, it provides a unique introduction to media and cultural studies perspectives on health communication. Health Communication explores the dynamic world of contemporary mass media and diverse forms of alternative, mobile and social media: - How are communities using media to communicate about health and advocate for social change? - What are the challenges and opportunities involved with using the

• Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 10 March 2012

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 will result in significant changes to the U.S. health care system. Among its many provisions, the ACA will extend access to health care coverage to millions of Americans who have been previously uninsured. Many of the newly eligible health insurance consumers will be individuals of low health literacy, some speakers of English and others more comfortable using languages other than English. Health insurance terms such as "deductible," "co-insurance," and "out-of-pocket limit"

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 August 2022

• Author : Judith Martin,Thomas Nakayama,G.P. van Rheede van Oudtshoorn,Paul Schutte
• Publisher : McGraw Hill
• Release : 16 July 2013

The new Southern African edition of this popular introductory textbook offers students a practical and accessible framework for developing their intercultural communication skills. It provides a global perspective on intercultural communication while allowing students to contextualise their knowledge with relevant examples, applications and perspectives. Recognising that students in Southern African come from diverse cultural, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, it provides discussion of issues and perspectives they can apply to everyday life and to broader contexts.