Applications in Health Communication: Emerging Trends
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 390
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Copyright: 2014
Pages: 390
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A valuable resource for the health communication scholar, Applications in Health Communication: Emerging Trends represents a wide array of essays from a variety of methodological approaches.
Written by a cross-section of national and international professorships, Applications in Health Communication: Emerging Trends:
- Is comprised of five units: 1) Health Disease and Prevention; 2) Cultural Implications of Health Communication; 3) Health in Later Stages of Life; 4) Research in Health and; 5) Alternative Perspectives in Health.
- Features a chapter devoted to incorporating a new perspective on disclosure, stigma, and its impact in the mental health arena.
- Examines eating disorders and how family and friends can provide the needed support, reframing sexuality and how we perceive issues of sexuality, and the community of running with others to stay healthy.
Unit One: Health and Disease Prevention
Chapter 1: Communicating Cancer: Media Agenda Building for Health Promotion in Singapore
Angela Ka Ying Mak, Monash University; Augustine Pang, Nanyang Technological University
Chapter 2: Designing a Disclosure-Focused Stigma Intervention for Mental Health Research
Amanda Carpenter & Kathryn Greene, Rutgers University
Chapter 3: It Happens to Those People: Phenomenological Study of HIV in the Media
Malynnda A. Johnson, Carroll University
Chapter 4: Strategies: A Case Study of the Skin Cancer Specialty Clinic
Michael H. Eaves Valdosta State University
Unit Two: Medical Tourism and Culture in Medicine
Chapter 5: Tourism: The Role of Communication Regarding Risks and Benefits of Obtaining Medical Services Abroad
Kevin B. Wright, George Mason University & Alicia Mason, Pittsburgh State University
Chapter 6: Traditional Chinese Medicine as Emerging Domain for Health Communication Study
Jim Schnell, Ohio Dominican University
Chapter 7: Cultural Considerations in Health Care Practices
Nan Yu & Charles Okigbo, North Dakota State University
Unit Three: Health in Later Life
Chapter 8: Health Communication in the Context of Aging: The Development of an Intergenerational Communication Intervention to Reduce Biases and Discrimination
Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Lisa Hanasono, & China Billotte-Verhoff, Bowling Green State University
Chapter 9: Spousal Caregiver Narratives and Credible Authority: Uncertainty in Illness of Spousal Caregivers
Karen Sodowsky, Valdosta State University
Chapter 10: Ensuring a Good Death: Where Communication Can Intervene
Emily M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Unit Four: Research in Health
Chapter 11: Family Communication Patterns, Illness Attitudes, and the Willingness to Disclose Symptoms to Parents
Nathan Miczo & Lisa Miczo, Western Illinois University
Chapter 12: The Ventria Venture: Communicating Health Risks and Rewards of Genetically Modified Crops
Roy Schwartzman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Chapter 13: Using the Right Cues: Directions and Implications for Communication of Health Related Information Through Social Media
Patric R. Spence, University of Kentucky; Kenneth A. Lachlan, University of Massachusetts, Boston, & Xialing Lin, University of Kentucky
Chapter 14: Toward a Framework for the Study of Communication and Ocular Health and Disease: Lessons From a Personal Narrative of Vision Loss
Peter M. Kellett, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Chapter 15: The Moderating Role of Empathy in Patient Outcomes: A Proposed Model to Reframe the Debate between Biomedical and Patient-Centered Approaches
Patricia E. Gettings, Purdue University
Unit Five: Alternative Perspectives in Health
Chapter 16: Forms and Facets of Effective Support Provision from Friends and Family: Recipient Perspectives among People Coping with Eating Disorders
Jessica E. Akey, University of New York, Fredonia; Hsin Lin, University at Buffalo—The State University of New York; I-Hsuan Chiu, University at Buffalo—The State University of New York; Lance Rintamaki, University of Buffalo—The State University of New York
Chapter 17: Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality
Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois University
Chapter 18: Mexican-American Women and Health
Emma K. Wertz, Kennesaw State University
Chapter 19: Running Dialogue: The Social and Communicative Experience of Running Together
Tessa M. DuBois, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Chapter 20: When Family Bullying Mandates Medical Error: Redefining Elder Abuse
Susan L. Cook, Metro State University of Denver
Chapter 21: Communicating Sex-Positive Sexuality Education: Benefits and Strategies of an Emerging Approach
Jessica A. Nodulman, University of New Mexico
Index
New Health Communication Resource Now Available!
A valuable resource for the health communication scholar, Applications in Health Communication: Emerging Trends represents a wide array of essays from a variety of methodological approaches.
Written by a cross-section of national and international professorships, Applications in Health Communication: Emerging Trends:
- Is comprised of five units: 1) Health Disease and Prevention; 2) Cultural Implications of Health Communication; 3) Health in Later Stages of Life; 4) Research in Health and; 5) Alternative Perspectives in Health.
- Features a chapter devoted to incorporating a new perspective on disclosure, stigma, and its impact in the mental health arena.
- Examines eating disorders and how family and friends can provide the needed support, reframing sexuality and how we perceive issues of sexuality, and the community of running with others to stay healthy.
Unit One: Health and Disease Prevention
Chapter 1: Communicating Cancer: Media Agenda Building for Health Promotion in Singapore
Angela Ka Ying Mak, Monash University; Augustine Pang, Nanyang Technological University
Chapter 2: Designing a Disclosure-Focused Stigma Intervention for Mental Health Research
Amanda Carpenter & Kathryn Greene, Rutgers University
Chapter 3: It Happens to Those People: Phenomenological Study of HIV in the Media
Malynnda A. Johnson, Carroll University
Chapter 4: Strategies: A Case Study of the Skin Cancer Specialty Clinic
Michael H. Eaves Valdosta State University
Unit Two: Medical Tourism and Culture in Medicine
Chapter 5: Tourism: The Role of Communication Regarding Risks and Benefits of Obtaining Medical Services Abroad
Kevin B. Wright, George Mason University & Alicia Mason, Pittsburgh State University
Chapter 6: Traditional Chinese Medicine as Emerging Domain for Health Communication Study
Jim Schnell, Ohio Dominican University
Chapter 7: Cultural Considerations in Health Care Practices
Nan Yu & Charles Okigbo, North Dakota State University
Unit Three: Health in Later Life
Chapter 8: Health Communication in the Context of Aging: The Development of an Intergenerational Communication Intervention to Reduce Biases and Discrimination
Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Lisa Hanasono, & China Billotte-Verhoff, Bowling Green State University
Chapter 9: Spousal Caregiver Narratives and Credible Authority: Uncertainty in Illness of Spousal Caregivers
Karen Sodowsky, Valdosta State University
Chapter 10: Ensuring a Good Death: Where Communication Can Intervene
Emily M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Unit Four: Research in Health
Chapter 11: Family Communication Patterns, Illness Attitudes, and the Willingness to Disclose Symptoms to Parents
Nathan Miczo & Lisa Miczo, Western Illinois University
Chapter 12: The Ventria Venture: Communicating Health Risks and Rewards of Genetically Modified Crops
Roy Schwartzman, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Chapter 13: Using the Right Cues: Directions and Implications for Communication of Health Related Information Through Social Media
Patric R. Spence, University of Kentucky; Kenneth A. Lachlan, University of Massachusetts, Boston, & Xialing Lin, University of Kentucky
Chapter 14: Toward a Framework for the Study of Communication and Ocular Health and Disease: Lessons From a Personal Narrative of Vision Loss
Peter M. Kellett, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Chapter 15: The Moderating Role of Empathy in Patient Outcomes: A Proposed Model to Reframe the Debate between Biomedical and Patient-Centered Approaches
Patricia E. Gettings, Purdue University
Unit Five: Alternative Perspectives in Health
Chapter 16: Forms and Facets of Effective Support Provision from Friends and Family: Recipient Perspectives among People Coping with Eating Disorders
Jessica E. Akey, University of New York, Fredonia; Hsin Lin, University at Buffalo—The State University of New York; I-Hsuan Chiu, University at Buffalo—The State University of New York; Lance Rintamaki, University of Buffalo—The State University of New York
Chapter 17: Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality
Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois University
Chapter 18: Mexican-American Women and Health
Emma K. Wertz, Kennesaw State University
Chapter 19: Running Dialogue: The Social and Communicative Experience of Running Together
Tessa M. DuBois, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Chapter 20: When Family Bullying Mandates Medical Error: Redefining Elder Abuse
Susan L. Cook, Metro State University of Denver
Chapter 21: Communicating Sex-Positive Sexuality Education: Benefits and Strategies of an Emerging Approach
Jessica A. Nodulman, University of New Mexico
Index