Applied Health Communication (Kevin Wright, Scott D. Moore)

Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-732-8 Price:$95.00 Title: Applied Health Communication Editor(s): Kevin Wright, Scott D. Moore Publish Date: October 2007 Pages: 400 Format: Cloth

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This collection 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. Contents: OVERVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES OF APPLIED HEALTH COMMUNICATION. Health Communication: Where Have We Been and Where Can We Go?, Teresa L. Thompson, James D. Robinson, Dustin J. Anderson, and Molly Federowicz. Story as Medicine: Empirical Research on the Healing Effects of Health Narratives, Sunwolf, Lawrence R. Frey, and Jason Lesko. New Technologies and Health Communication, Kevin Wright. Social Marketing and Organizational Communication Efficacy: Improving Health Related Behavior to Identified Populations, Gerald R. Ledlow, James A. Johnson, and Mikiyasu Hakoyama. Cultural Competence and Barriers to the Delivery of Health Care, Scott D. Moore and Jerry Thurston. Communicating Health Beliefs and Practices, Joy L. Hart and Kandi L. Walker. APPLIED LIFESPAN HEALTH COMMUNICATION. Explaining Illness to Children: Conceptualizations and Strategies, Brian Whaley and Tim Edgar. Communication with the Aging Patient, Jon F. Nussbaum and Craig Fowler. Cross-Cultural Differences in Choices of Health Information by Older Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers, Lisa Sparks and Jeannie McPherson. End-of-Life Communication: The Drama of Pretense in the Talk of Dying Patients and Their M.D.s, Sandy Ragan and Joy Goldsmith. Communication within the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, Laura Ellingson. APPLIED ILLNESS CONTEXTS. Communication and Cancer Prevention, Control and Care, Gary L. Kreps and Ellen Bonaguro. Relational Agency During Life-Threatening Illnesses, Dan O'Hair and Lisa Sparks. Alzheimer's Caregiving Issues, Jim L. Query, Jr., Jane A. Stuart, and Mindi Ann Golden. Interpersonal Communication Issues in Conversations About Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Patricia Amason and Lynne M. Web. Preventing a Green Tobacco Sickness in Farming Youth: A Behavior Adaptation Approach to Health Communication in Health Campaigns, Roxanne Parrott and Lindsey Polone. Author Index. Subject Index.