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This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the
applications of communication inquiry to the solution of relevant
social issues. Nationally recognized experts from a wide range of
subject areas discuss ways in which communication research has been
used to address social problems and identify direction for future
applied communication inquiry.
This book analyzes international cases of immigrants and refugees
from a health communication perspective - A useful contribution to
debates on the wellbeing of immigrants and refugees It provides
theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing
future health communication campaigns and interventions for health
promotion It brings together internationally renowned scholars on
the reality of health communication situations that immigrants and
refugees experience in host countries around the globe The chapters
examine how national and global health risk situations, including
the COVID-19 pandemic, affect immigrant and refugee health during
difficult health circumstances The book offers effective health
communication strategies for promoting immigrant and refugee health
It provides lessons learned from past and present health
communication campaigns, responses of diverse communities, and
governmental policies It draws on case studies from major host
countries on different continents It will be of interest to anyone
researching or studying in the areas of health communication,
public health, international relations, public administration,
nursing, and social work
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the
applications of communication inquiry to the solution of relevant
social issues. Nationally recognized experts from a wide range of
subject areas discuss ways in which communication research has been
used to address social problems and identify direction for future
applied communication inquiry.
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population addresses a people
whose lack of health care access, including mistreatment and
refusal of services, are often omitted from discussions about
health care and insurance reform. Research suggests that LGBT
people experience worse health outcomes than their heterosexual
counterparts. Low rates of health insurance coverage, high rates of
stress due to systematic harassment, stigma, discrimination, and
lack of cultural competency in the health care system frequently
manifest in negative health-related behaviors. The dearth of data
collection on sexual orientation and identity in state and federal
health care surveys has led to inadequate information about LGBT
populations, and has impeded the establishment of health programs
and public policies that benefit them. With its diverse
perspectives, this book will not only benefit LGBT people, but will
also more broadly improve the lives of entire communities, medical
care, and prevention programs and services. This research provides
a better understanding of the social and structural inequalities
that LGBT populations experience. Improvements to our country's
health care system should go beyond just providing universal
insurance and should ensure equitable health care for all.
This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack
of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and
refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions
about health care disparities and insurance reform. The
perspectives and needs of LGBT people should be routinely
considered in public health efforts to improve the overall health
of every person and eliminate health disparities. Previous research
suggests that LGBT people experience worse health outcomes than
their heterosexual counterparts. Differences in sexual behavior
account for some of these disparities, but others are associated
with social and structural inequities. Low rates of health
insurance coverage, high rates of stress due to systematic
harassment, stigma, and discrimination, and a lack of cultural
competency in the health care system frequently manifest in
negative health-related behaviors. The lack of data collection on
sexual orientation and identity in state and federal health care
surveys leads to inadequate information about LGBT populations and
impedes the establishment of health programs and public policies
that benefit them.This volume's research will increase people's
understanding of the social and structural inequalities that LGBT
populations experience. With its diverse perspectives, this book
will not only benefit LGBT people, but will also more broadly
improve the lives of entire communities, medical care, and
prevention programs and services. Improvements to our country's
health care system should go beyond providing universal insurance
and should ensure equitable health care for all.
Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are
inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and
well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can
substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer,
healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step
in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding
global and local health practices. Taking a multi-disciplinary
approach, the volume includes state-of-the-art theories that can be
applied to health communication interventions and practical
guidelines about how to design, implement, and evaluate effective
health communication interventions. Few books have synthesized such
a broad range of theories and strategies of health communication
that are applicable globally, and also provided clear advice about
how to apply such strategies. This volume combines academic
research and field experience, guided by past and future research
agendas and on-the-ground implementation opportunities.
Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are
inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and
well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can
substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer,
healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step
in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding
global and local health practices. Taking a multi-disciplinary
approach, the volume includes state-of-the-art theories that can be
applied to health communication interventions and practical
guidelines about how to design, implement, and evaluate effective
health communication interventions. Few books have synthesized such
a broad range of theories and strategies of health communication
that are applicable globally, and also provided clear advice about
how to apply such strategies. This volume combines academic
research and field experience, guided by past and future research
agendas and on-the-ground implementation opportunities.
The contributors to this volume make convincing cases that
communication is an intrinsic element of cancer care and holds
unique communicative challenges for older adults. The chapters in
the first section focus on some aspect of how older adults deal
with issues of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and how their
unique identities play a role. The chapters in the second part
shift attention to some of the more salient survivorship issues
inherent in cancer communication research. The chapters in the
third section raise a number of issues that seek to identify issues
of cultural values, spirituality, and end-of-life to help patients
cope with their internal strife.
The Handbook of Communication and Cancer Care is a major new
compendium of state-of-the-art readings concerning the powerful
influences of human and mediated communication to enable health
care consumers and providers to get the most out of cancer care. An
extraordinary number of communication issues must be considered in
the conduct of cancer care, including gathering and interpreting
relevant health information, eliciting coordination among
interdependent patients, providers, and family members, and/or
caregivers, and providing social support and promoting psychosocial
adjustment. The contributors to this volume provide compelling
analyses of the way communication enhances cancer care. It is
important to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities
involved in effective and appropriate communication with cancer
patients across the continuum of cancer care from diagnosis to
survivorship. The ""Handbook"" provides important insights into the
ways health care consumers and providers can acquire and use
communication to effectively confront cancer.
This collection of readings is designed to be used as a
supplemental text in health communication - specifically a course
concerned with explaining current health communication theory and
applied research in health communication. As the area of health
communication has grown in recent years, there has been an
increased need among health communication instructors for a
resource that offers in-depth coverage of applied health
communication topics beyond what is currently available in the
leading health communication textbooks. The contributors are highly
recognized and respected scholars in cutting-edge areas of health
communication. In their chapters they draw on their extensive
experience conducting applied communication research in a variety
of health-related settings.
This book contends that the discourse of genetics is recombining
our understanding of who we are and the state of our health by
redefining what it means to be competent, knowledgeable,
responsible and proactive in our professional, clinical and
personal lives. It highlights the communicative practices engaged
by participants and professionals in genetics clinics as they
collectively recombine diverse forms of knowledge to produce new
understandings of health and self.
Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a
great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers,
and college health professionals. A variety of efforts have focused
on the problem. This book describes an innovative way to approach
the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and
describes an award winning prevention campaign.
Explores the use of qualitative research methods to study
organizational communication and to generate data for enhancing
organizational performance and to help organizational
representatives and/or consultants demystify the complexities of
communicative influence on organizational studies.
The studies provided in this volume provide evidence of the
pervasive influences of communication on health, health care, and
health promotion, helping to validate assertions about these
influences made by many health communication scholars.
The studies provided in this volume provide evidence of the
pervasive influences of communication on health, health care, and
health promotion, helping to validate assertions about these
influences made by many health communication scholars.
This text confronts some of the major friction points between
doctors and their clients, and recommends practical steps clients
can take to obtain quality medical care. The emphasis is on an
active approach to seeking health care.
This volume addresses the phenomenon of sexual harassment. It
provides an in-depth analysis of the influences of communication on
sexual harassment and suggests new directions for responding to and
eliminating the problem in the workplace.
Over the last five decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots
has consistently increased in the realm of access to healthcare
services among different sectors of society: from quality of
healthcare services, access to health supplies, technologies, and
usage of health information and health prevention services, to
vulnerability to certain types of diseases and health outcomes.
Against this backdrop this edited collection - the first of its
kind - uses the framework of communication in order to understand
the underlying dimensions of health disparities and the
communicative processes, policies, methodologies, and messages that
are deployed with the goal of increasing access, improving quality,
and addressing the underlying causes.
Over the last five decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots
has consistently increased in the realm of access to healthcare
services among different sectors of society: from quality of
healthcare services, access to health supplies, technologies, and
usage of health information and health prevention services, to
vulnerability to certain types of diseases and health outcomes.
Against this backdrop this edited collection - the first of its
kind - uses the framework of communication in order to understand
the underlying dimensions of health disparities and the
communicative processes, policies, methodologies, and messages that
are deployed with the goal of increasing access, improving quality,
and addressing the underlying causes.
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