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Low-Health Literacy and the Clinical Encounter: Promoting Understanding for Patients through Effective Communication
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Abstract Inadequate health literacy is a major public health concern in the United States. Health communication students and practitioners are well positioned to address this problem productively by focusing on the interactions between health care providers and patients who experience low health ...
Physicians' Views of Interpersonal Communication Training, the Importance of Communication in their Medical Practices, and the Delivery of Bad News
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Sample Communication in medical contexts can be verbal, written, or electronically delivered; however, interpersonal communication remains the most vital form of communication in medical practice (Makoul, 2003). Medical communication comprises a complex set of behaviors used to carry out the func...
Media for Your Life: A Consumer's Guide to Everything Media
Author(s): Don Lowe
Media for Your Life: A Consumer's Guide to Everything Media introduces students to mass communication theories of media literacy and mass media effects research. It also includes a comprehensive history of mass media development in the United States (and worldwide). This publication allows studen...
Violence and Cultivation Theory: A Case Study
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Abstract Since the 1950s, television has been not only the most prominent of all mass media, but also a defining element of modern life. Television’s institutional structure and technology, as well as its programming, have seen immense changes, yet it remains the source of our most widely shared ...
Holding These Truths: Empowerment and Recognition in Action
Author(s): Nancy Erbe
Holding these Truths is an all-encompassing reference book that has been the backbone of my studies to successful negotiations, interpersonal relations, with applications in jurisprudence and administrative medicine. I appreciate the examples and exercises that combine psychology and behavioral heal...
Air Traffic Control Fundamentals: The Definitive Guide
Author(s): CHARLES SPRATT
To be a good controller requires an innate ability to accept constructive criticism, to know one’s own capabilities and limitations, to be relatively good with numbers, to be able to recall obscure regulatory information at a moment’s notice, and to be able to listen to and interpret numerous conver...