Talking about Health: Why Communication MattersISBN: 978-1-4051-7757-3
Hardcover
208 pages
May 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work
straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking
About Health explores the importance of health communication in
the 21st century, and how it affects us all.
- Organized around six key questions about health and communication: How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It?
- Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system
- Translates what we know about communication and health into useful guidelines for everyday practice
- Includes discussions of politics and healthcare, genetic testing, and alternative care
- The author's blog http://whyhealthcommunication.com/whc_blog/ focuses on why communicating about health can make a difference in our health and our quality of life