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Health Communication in Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Health Communication in Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. Modeled on Eileen Berlin Ray's 1993 volume, Case Studies in Health Communication, this text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations. With chapters written by medical practitioners as well as communication scholars, the cases included herein cover a variety of topics, populations, contexts and issues in health communication, including: *provider-recipient communication and its importance to subsequent diagnosis and treatment; *decision-making; *social identity, particularl...

Real-Life Scenarios
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Real-Life Scenarios

Real-Life Scenarios: A Case Study Perspective on Health Communication provides thirty-one cases co-written by leading scholars that reflect the most current and pressing research and practice in the field. The brevity and variety of cases offer a diverse range of perspectives withoutmonopolizing student reading time. Rather than providing expert analysis, each case is followed by key terms and questions that challenge students to interrogate communication patterns, stimulating critical thinking and introspection.Created by two leaders in the field, Athena du Pre is author of the leading health communication text Communicating About Health and Eileen Berlin Ray is an award-winning health communication scholar with many books to her credit. This book can be used on its own, as a supplement to any text, or asan accompaniment to du Pre's Communicating About Health.

Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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Case Studies in Health Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Case Studies in Health Communication

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book focuses on the complexities of the communication of health-related messages and information through the use of case studies. The expert contributors to this volume are scholars who, during their research and consulting, grapple with many of the issues of concern to those studying health communication. While several introductory books offer brief case studies to illustrate concepts covered, this book provides in-depth cases that enable more advanced students to apply theory to real situations.

Communication Yearbook 7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 918

Communication Yearbook 7

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Communication Yearbook 7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 917

Communication Yearbook 7

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association , each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1983.

Communication and Disenfranchisement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Communication and Disenfranchisement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups, and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the United States. Whether through birth, life events, or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges, rights, and power within the existing societal structure. Centered around societal health problems as they relate to socioeconomic status, family, abuse, and health concerns, these volumes examine salient issues from several theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory and the social construction of reality. Communication and Disenfranchisement provides theory-based essays on topics such as the homeless, adult survivors of sexual...

Communication and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Communication and Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume examines this rapidly growing and changing field by applying a unified framework that integrates both interpersonal and mass communication investigations into theoretical and applied issues. Using a systems perspective as the organizational framework, relevant issues in the communication of health care, ranging from micro to macro levels, are discussed. The contributors recognize communication as a major factor affecting health today and therefore go beyond examinations of health communication as simply a dissemination of information regarding diseases, diagnoses, and treatments to show it as a much larger and more complex field with applications to all levels and forms of commun...

Stress and Burnout Among Providers Caring for the Terminally Ill and Their Families
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Stress and Burnout Among Providers Caring for the Terminally Ill and Their Families

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written primarily by individuals with hands-on hospice experience, this crucial volume identifies sources of stress among hospice workers and provides workers and managers with strategies to cope with those stressors. It is an enlightening examination of diverse theoretical perspectives and a much needed investigation on stress and burnout for hospice providers and caregivers. Readers will find concrete suggestions for the alleviation of stress and burnout in their work with the terminally ill, as well as theoretical and research discussions. The authors explore a wide range of subjects and problems faced by nurses, physicians, social workers, caregivers, hospice directors, and volunteers. T...

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 973

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for those new to this area, summarizes work for those already learned in the area, and suggests avenues for future research on the relationships between communicative processes and health/health care delivery. This second edition of the Handbook has been organized to reflect the goals of health communication: understanding to make informed decisions and to promote formal and informal systems of care linked to health and well-being. It emphasizes work in such areas as barriers to disclosure in family conversations and me...