Description
This book advances our understanding of communicative relationships and key barriers to more effective health communication. In this, it offers a humanistic orientation of health communication as well as its social, cultural, political, ethical, and spiritual dimensions and contexts. The book therefore brings a more inclusive and integrated approach to the major challenges and opportunities in contemporary health, medicine, and wellbeing.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Field of Health Communication: An Overview.- Chapter 2: A Failure to Communicate.- Chapter 3: Creatures of Habit – Automatic Health Behaviour.- Chapter 4: The Politics Of Talking Health: Power, Ethics, And Other Dilemmas.- Chapter 5: Eudaimonia – The Tricky Endeavour To Find Evidence for Wellbeing or its Absence.- Chapter 6: Culture’s Consequences – Making Health Communication More Equitable And Inclusive.- Chapter 7: Nurturing a Shared Vision: Self-identity, Relationship Building and People-powered Interventions.- Chapter 8: Hashtag Stay Healthy – Digital Media for Health Communication.- Chapter 9: Back To The Roots – Using Health Communication To Connect.
