Communicating About Health Current Issues and Perspectives

• Author : Athena DuPré
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Release : 21 October 2021

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 : 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 : Athena Du Pré
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 2021

• 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 : Grace Hwang
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 1993

• Author : Erin E. Gafner
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 2021

• Author : Belinda Lewis,Jeff Lewis
• Publisher : Macmillan International Higher Education
• 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 media for

• 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 : Karen Tompkins Berney,Africa Child Survival Initiative - Combatting Childhood Communicable Diseases,United States. Agency for International Development,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). International Health Program Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 1970

• Author : Priya Bahri
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 21 October 2021

• 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 : Jill Yamasaki,Patricia Geist-Martin,Barbara F. Sharf
• Publisher : Waveland Press
• Release : 01 July 2016

Health and illness are storied experiences that necessarily entail personal, cultural, and political complexities. For all of us, communicating about health and illness requires a continuous negotiation of these complexities and a delicate balance between what we learn about the biology of disease from providers and our own very personal, subjective experiences of being ill. Storied Health and Illness brings together dozens of noteworthy scholars, both established and emerging, in a provocative collection that embraces narrative ways of knowing to

• Author : Africa Child Survival Initiative - Combatting Childhood Communicable Diseases
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 1993

• Author : Rodney Jones
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 03 July 2013

Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions. Utilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life, this book addresses