Health as Communication Nexus: A Service Learning Approach
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 446
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 446
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Health as Communication Nexus: A Service Learning Approach provides a unique combination of learning methods that effectively engage students, stir their passion for health communication, answer some challenging health questions they may be grappling with, and perhaps in the process, change their lives too.
Health as Communication Nexus: A Service Learning Approach presents a comprehensive view of the health communication topics and issues encountered in academic research and during our daily lives
Unique to the market, Health as Communication Nexus: A Service Learning Approach utilizes both a critical incident case study with a service-learning approach. The critical incident case study integrated across the chapters of the book provides a rich, in-depth example to illustrate the wide variety of topics and issues considered within the realm of health communication. The service-learning approach stimulates ideas for ways to apply the concepts of health communication.
Health as Communication Nexus: A Service Learning Approach:
- Is written for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and anyone else who may want to learn about the growing field of health communication
- Utilizes real-life scenarios spurred from the authors’ experiences
- Defines the field of health communication from the perspective of those who teach, conduct research, and have applied experiences within the discipline of Communication
- Includes a comprehensive web component that features poll questions, quizzes, interactive exercises, service learning application ideas, and links for each chapter
1 Introducing Health as Communication Nexus
2 Linking Health Communication with Ethics
3 Linking Health Communication with Theories Informed by Health Communication
4 Linking Health Communication with Patient Interactions
5 Linking Health Communication with Healthcare Provider Interaction
6 Linking Health Communication with Social Support
7 Linking Health Communication with Health Campaign Theories
8 Linking Health Communication with Health Campaign Practice
9 Linking Health Communication with Risk Communication and Crisis Community
10 Linking Health Communication with Entertainment Education
11 Linking Health Communication with Media
12 Linking Health Communication with e-Health
Professor Mattson's research and teaching program explores the intersection of organizing health communication initiatives, health advocacy, and health communication pedagogy. She is particularly interested in the role of communication processes in addressing problems related to human health and safety. Theoretically, she seeks to identify critical interactive features to improve communication and reduce harm among people in diverse contexts, including public health campaigns, public policy debates, aviation organizations, HIV testing, interactions about pain medication, and patient/health care provider confidentiality. Her methodological choices are predicated upon her research questions and typically involve mixed methodologies, including observations, interviews, focus groups, and surveys.
Her current research and teaching project, the Motorcycle Safety at Purdue campaign (www.ItlnvolvesYou.com). integrates her professional interests. This campaign was founded with a team of graduate students after Professor Mattson was involved in a life-altering motorcycle crash. Mattson's health communication research is published in journals, including Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, Health Communication, Health Marketing Quarterly, Health Promotion Practice, Joumal of Applied Communication Research, and Journal of Health Communication.
Lecturer Hall's research and teaching are centered on a fundamental interest in how individuals, groups, organizations and cultures communicate about their health and use communication to improve health. Specifically she is interested in the integration of narratives as people think about, talk about, and make sense of their health-related situations.
Her current research explores how women who experience high risk pregnancies integrate the many narratives around them into the narratives they create to assist in making sense of their experiences, in making decisions, and in asserting their identities. Hall's health communication research is published in journals, including Cases in Public Health Communication & Marketing and Health Communication.