The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

Lea's Communication

by Teresa L. Thompson (Editor), Nancy Grant Harrington (Editor)

A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject's key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline's leading scholars.

　

The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns, interventions, and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy, health equity, and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication, such as theory and method; multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation, implementation, and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs, the environment, public health crises, global health, mental health and mental illness, and marginalized populations such as Black, Latinx (a/o), Native/First People, and LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as the multiple challenges health communication researchers face in conducting research.

　

The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

630 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Policythinkshop Blogger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I took a course outside of my graduate public policy department in interpersonal health communication. After the first class I realized that taking a graduate course outside of your graduate subject area would be a tremendous challenge since all of the students in that class were doing their Ph.D. in the subject area and had ready all that there was to read in that field.

I ran to the bookstore and found this book online and purchased it. I spent the first three weeks barely surviving. This book helped me briefly survey the main authors, ideas and constructs in the field and allowed me to compete and learn.

I earned an "A" in the class, but it was one of the hardest earned "As" ever!

Needless to say, this book is awesome for anyone serous about public health or building their library and personal understanding of the role of health communication in all things healthcare.

[John]

nonfiction,reference,communications

[Lucy Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written (and well researched) communication book on health communication. Would have been 5 stars but I was looking for a book on public health communication instead