Talking about Health: Why Communication Matters: 7 (Communication in the Public Interest) - Softcover

Parrott, Roxanne

 
9781405177566: Talking about Health: Why Communication Matters: 7 (Communication in the Public Interest)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 140517756X ISBN 13: 9781405177566
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Roxanne Parrott is Distinguished Professor at Pennsylvania State University, holding joint appointments in the Communication Arts & Sciences and the Health Policy & Administration departments. She is also a faculty member in the College of Medicine, for the Homeland Security Program.

From the Back Cover

Whether in the news, from our doctors, in our families, or through entertainment or commercial outlets, communicating about health can be harnessed in ways to benefit our choices, our decisions, and our physical and mental well-being. 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 twenty-first century, and how it affects us all.

Immensely readable and accessible, the book is organized around six questions relating to why and how we communicate about health:

  • 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?
  • What’s politics got to do with it?

For more “talk about health,” and to chat with the author and others about the book, please visit whyhealthcommunication.com.

From the Inside Flap

Whether in the news, from our doctors, in our families, or through entertainment or commercial outlets, communicating about health can be harnessed in ways to benefit our choices, our decisions, and our physical and mental well-being. 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 twenty-first century, and how it affects us all. 

Immensely readable and accessible, the book is organized around six questions relating to why and how we communicate about health:

  • 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?
  • What’s politics got to do with it?

For more “talk about health,” and to chat with the author and others about the book, please visit whyhealthcommunication.com.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
140517756X
ISBN 13 
9781405177566
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210