Encyclopedia of Health Communication
Encyclopedia of Health Communication
Editor: Thompson, Teresa L.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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ISBN: 978-1-45-225875-1
Category: Health & Medicine - Health
Image Count:
232
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of the exciting field or Health Communications, including such topics as theories and research traditions; evaluation and assessment; cultural complexities; high risk and special populations; message design and campaigns; provider/patient interaction issues; media issues; and more.
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Table of Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- About the Editor
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Chronology
- A
- Abuse: Child and Spousal
- Acculturation
- Action Tendency Emotions
- Acupuncture
- Acute Versus Preventive Care
- Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Advance Directives
- Advanced Aging Communities
- Advertising: Dietary Supplements
- Advertising: Food
- Advertising: Over-the-Counter Drugs
- Advertising: Prescription Drugs
- Advertising, Governmental Regulation of
- Advertising Unhealthy Foods to Children
- Advocacy
- Affection Exchange Theory
- Affordable Care Act
- Ageism
- Agenda Setting
- Age-Related Hearing Loss
- Aging
- Alcohol and Health Decision Making
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- American Medical Association
- Amputation
- Amputee Wannabes
- Anger Appeals
- Antisocial Behaviors: Bullying and Cyberbullying
- Anxiety
- Attribution Theory and Attribution Error
- Audiences, Reaching
- Awareness and Instruction Strategies
- Ayurveda, Yoga, and Meditation
- B
- Bad News, Communicating
- Bangladesh
- Bereavement
- Big Data
- Biological Citizenship
- Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Biopower and Biopolitics
- Biopreparedness and Biosecurity
- Bioterrorism
- Birth Control and Contraception
- Body Images and Portrayals
- Body Implants, Medical
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Breast Cancer
- Breastfeeding
- Bundled Interventions
- C
- Campaign Effects Versus Effectiveness
- Cancer: Risk Communication
- Cancer Survivorship
- Care Model and Productive Interaction
- Celebrity Cancer Announcements
- Celebrity Endorsements
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
- Change Agency
- Change Approaches, Transtheoretical and Stages of
- Channels and Formats
- Childbirth
- Childhood Injury Prevention
- Children, Health Communication with
- China
- Chronic Diseases
- Circumcision, Male
- Climate Change
- Clinical Trial Participation
- Coding Health Interaction
- Collaborative Decision Making
- Collaborative Decision Making: Shared Mind
- Collaborative Decision Making, Uncertainty in
- Collective Efficacy
- Communication, Basic Concepts of
- Communication Accommodation Theory
- Communication Complex
- Communication for Behavioral Impact
- Communication Interventions
- Communication Networks
- Communication Privacy Management Theory
- Communication Skills Training: Patients
- Communication Skills Training and Assessment: Providers
- Communication Theory of Identity
- Community Initiatives, Comprehensive
- Community Mobilization
- Community Organizing as a Research Approach
- Community Participation
- Community Resilience
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Compassion
- Computer Kiosks, Free-Standing
- Computer-Tailored Interventions
- Conflict and Negative Health Effects
- Conflict Management: Health Professionals
- Content Analysis
- Contested Illnesses
- Contraception
- Control Theory
- Conversation Analysis
- Coping
- Crisis Communication
- Critical Approaches
- Cross-Generational Health Communication
- Cultivation Theory
- Cultural Differences
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Cultural Variance Model
- Culture-Centered Approaches
- Customization as Tailoring 2.0
- Cyberchondria
- D
- Data Mining
- Death and Dying
- Decision Making
- Defensive Reactions: Health Messages
- Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.
- Dependent Variables Derived from Critical Health Outcomes
- Depression
- Developing Countries, Campaigns in
- Developmental Health
- Diabetes
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Difficult Patients
- Diffusion of Innovations Model
- Digital Divide
- Digital Media
- Digital Personal Health Records
- Disabilities and Family Relationships
- Disability
- Disaster Relief
- Disclaimers, Interpretation and Effects of
- Disclosure: Family Health History
- Disclosure: Medical Errors
- Disclosure: Providers and Patients
- Discourse and Health
- Disease Prevention
- Disenfranchised Populations
- Dissemination
- Distance Caregiving
- Doctor–Patient Communication
- Double ABC-X Model of Family Stress and Coping
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse Minimization
- Dual-Processing Models
- E
- Eating Disorders
- Ecological Perspectives
- Egypt
- E-Health: Defined
- Emergency Health Communication
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Emergency Rooms
- Emotion and Information Seeking
- Emotion Appraisals Regarding Risk
- Emotions and the Medical Care Process
- Encoded Exposure and Aided Versus Unaided Awareness
- Enhancement
- Entertainment–Education
- Entertainment–Education: European Approach
- Entertainment–Education: Hollywood and Public Relations Approach
- Entertainment–Education: Role of Involvement
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Health, Research in
- Ethic of Care
- Ethics: Campaigns
- Ethics: Health Communication Strategies
- Ethics: New Technologies
- Ethics: Overall
- Ethics: Provider–Patient Interaction
- Ethnic Diversity in Health Care Settings
- Ethnography
- Ethnomethodology
- Europe
- Evaluation: Mixed Methods
- Evaluation: Qualitative Methods
- Evaluation: Quantitative Methods
- Evaluation, Statistical Challenges in
- Everyday Health Communication
- Everyday Health Communication, Social Influence of
- Evidence: Role in Campaigns
- Exercise
- Explaining Illness
- Explaining Illness, Need for
- Expressive Writing and Health
- F
- Face and Politeness
- Familial Roles in Health Communication
- Families, Communication with
- Family: Relationship to Health
- Family Caregiving
- Family Communication and End of Life
- Family Meeting
- Family Planning
- Fatalism
- Fear Appeals and Extended Parallel Process Model
- Fertility
- Final Conversations
- Focus Groups
- Formative Evaluation
- Framing
- G
- Gambling Addiction
- Gaming
- Gender
- Generative Tensions in Health Communication Theory
- Genetically Modified Organisms, Media Coverage of
- Genetics
- Geographic Information Systems Technology
- Ghana
- Globalization Theory
- Grief and Loss
- Grounded Theory
- H
- Harm Reduction Theory
- Health Activism and Public Health
- Health Belief Model
- Health Blogging
- Health Campaigns
- Health Campaigns, Assessment of
- Health Care, Discrimination or Bias in
- Health Care Environment
- Health Care Teams
- Health Citizenship
- Health Communication, History of
- Health Communication, Unintended Effects of
- Health Communication Curricula
- Health Disparities: Clinical Interactions
- Health Disparities: Communal Level
- Health Disparities: Media
- Health Disparities: Overall
- Health Disparities, Personal Influences on
- Health Disparities, Relational Influences on
- Health Disparities, Solutions for
- Health Education
- Health Information Channels
- Health Information-Seeking Behavior, Psychosocial Determinants of
- Health Information-Seeking Behavior, Social Determinants of
- Health Journalism
- Health Literacy: Integrating into Health Care Systems
- Health Literacy, Consequences of
- Health Literacy, Improving
- Health Literacy, Measurement of
- Health Literacy, Model of
- Health Literacy, Online
- Health Literacy and Numeracy
- Health Locus of Control
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion
- Health Transition and Family Communication
- Healthy People Initiative
- Heart Health
- HIV Test Counseling
- HIV/AIDS: Condom Use and Meanings
- HIV/AIDS: Disclosure Dilemmas
- HIV/AIDS: Language, Metaphors, and Social Construction
- HIV/AIDS: Mother-to-Child Transmission
- HIV/AIDS: Overview
- HIV/AIDS: Social Determinants of Disparities
- HIV/AIDS Prevention
- HIV/AIDS Test, Meanings of
- HIV/AIDS Treatment
- Hofstede’s Dimensions of Culture
- Holistic Medicine
- Hospice
- Hospital Governance Culture
- Human Papillomavirus
- Human Rights
- Humor
- I
- Identification
- Ideological Hegemony
- Illness Identity
- Immigrant Families
- Immigrant Populations
- Immunizations
- Incentive Appeals
- Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory
- India
- Indonesia
- Influential Source Messengers
- Influenza A Virus Subtype H1N1
- Information Nonseeking
- Information Seeking
- Information Sharing
- Informed Consent
- Inoculation Effects
- Institutional Processes and Competing Agendas
- Integrated Marketing Mix
- Integrative Medicine
- Interactional Context and Intervention
- Intercultural Health Communication
- Interdisciplinary Health Services Research
- Internet: Information Acquisition
- Internet Addiction
- Interpersonal Communication and Mass Media Health Campaigns
- Interpersonal Communication Skills
- Interpreters and Language
- Intervention Evaluation Methodology Technologies, New
- Interviewing in the Health Care Context
- Invisible Disabilities
- Iran
- Islamic Healing
- J
- Japan
- L
- Language and Negation Bias: Doctor–Patient Interaction
- Language Brokering
- LGBT Issues
- Lifespan, Communication Across the
- Listening in Health Care Interactions
- Logic Models and Program Evaluation
- Loose Versus Tight Coupling
- M
- Malaria and Mosquito Nets
- Malawi
- Malpractice Litigation
- Mammography
- Marginalized Populations
- Mass Media
- Measurement: Message Quality
- Measurement Problems
- Media: Quality of Health Information
- Media and Health, Critical Analysis of
- Media Complementarity Theory
- Media Content: Magazines
- Media Content: Newspapers
- Media Content: Other Print
- Media Content: Televised Entertainment
- Media Content: Televised News
- Media Content, Impact of
- Media Depictions: Disability
- Media Depictions: Medical Workers
- Media Depictions: Mental Illnesses
- Media Literacy
- Mediated Health Campaigns
- Medical Outcomes
- Medical Records, Electronic
- Medical Regimens, Adherence to
- Medicalization
- Medicine as Business, Evolution of
- Memorable Messages
- Mental Health
- Message Design
- Message Sensation Value
- Message Sidedness
- Message Tailoring
- Meta-Analysis
- Metaphor
- Metatheory
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Military Health
- Military Sexual Assault
- Mobile Health
- Modeling Development and Testing
- Moderating Variables and Audience Effects: Violence
- Mother–Daughter Dyad Communication
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural Campaigns
- Multilevel Interventions
- Multilevel Modeling
- Music in Health Behavior: Change Campaigns and Interventions
- N
- Narrative Engagement Theory
- Narrative Medicine
- Narratives: Health Campaigns
- Narratives: Overall
- Narratives: Social Marketing
- Narratives and Barrier Reduction
- National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
- National Cancer Institute
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine
- National Medical Association
- Nature, Environment, and Sustainability
- Negotiated Morality Theory
- Nepal
- Neurorhetoric
- Newborn Care
- Nigeria
- Nonverbal Communication in Health Care Settings
- Numeracy
- Nursing
- Nursing Homes, Staff Communication in
- Nutrition and Diet
- O
- Obesity: Overview
- Obesity and Mass Media
- Olson’s Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems
- Online Focus Groups
- Online Health Information Credibility
- Online Health Information Exchange and Privacy
- Online Health Information Seeking
- Online Health Information Sharing
- Online Support Groups
- Online Support Groups, Advantages and Disadvantages of
- Open Dialogue Approach
- Opinion Leaders
- Optimistic Bias
- Oral Health and Dentistry
- Organ Donation
- Organizational and Public Policy Barriers
- Organization–Public Relations Theory
- Organizations and Health
- O-S-O-R Model
- Osteopathy
- Overtreatment and Overreliance on Diagnostic Testing
- P
- Palliative Care
- Pandemics
- Pathways to Change Tool
- Pathways to Health Outcomes
- Patient Activation
- Patient and Relationship-Centered Communication and Medicine
- Patient Education: Hospital Discharge and Readmission
- Patient Empowerment
- Patient Navigators and Family Advisors
- Patient Privacy
- Patient Safety
- Patients' Significant Others: Communication with Health Care Providers
- Pediatric Hospice Care
- Perceived Effectiveness
- Perceived Threat
- Personalized Medicine
- Persuasive Technologies for Health
- Pharmaceutical Industry: Public Scrutiny and Activism
- Pharmacists
- Phenomenology
- Philippines
- Photovoice
- Physical Activity and Weight
- Placebo Effects
- Politics and Political Complexities
- Pornography, Health Consequences of
- Postcolonial Studies of Health
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Pregnancy
- Premises of Health Communication
- Prenatal Health Promotion
- Prescribing Medications
- Priming in Health Campaign Messages
- Problematic Integration Theory
- Problem-Based Learning
- Program Strategies: Campaigns
- Prostate Cancer
- Psychological Reactance
- Psychometric Theory and Reliability/Validity of Measures
- Public Engagement: Science Policy
- Public Health and Academic Partnerships
- Public Health Communication
- Public Health Communication, Evolution of
- Public Health Intervention: Multicultural Communities
- Public Relations and Health Care Organizations
- Public Relations and Health Journalism
- Public Relations and Health Promotion
- Public Relations and Social Media
- Public Service Announcements
- Public Understanding: Research
- Public Understanding: Science
- PubMed
- Q
- Quality of Life as a Health Outcome
- R
- Readiness Assessments
- Realism
- Reconceptualized Health Belief Model
- Relational Dialectics Theory
- Relational Health Communication Competence Model
- Religion and Spirituality
- Reproductive Technologies, New
- Resilience
- Rhetoric: Death with Dignity
- Rhetoric: Flu Vaccine
- Rhetoric: Health and Medicine
- Risk Communication
- Risk Communication: Food Safety
- Risk Communication: Instructional Principles
- Risk Communication: Social Construction Perspective
- Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model
- Risk Perception Attitude Framework
- Risk Perceptions
- Risk Society
- Risk-Taking Behavior
- Role Stress: Overall
- Rural Health Communication
- Russia
- S
- Safer Sex
- Sampling
- Satisfaction
- School Health
- Science Communication
- Science Literacy
- Scientific Complexity, Communication of
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Segmentation: Health Campaigns
- Segmentation: Public Relations
- Self-Determination Theory
- Self-Efficacy
- Senegal
- Sensation-Seeking Targeting
- Setting Objectives: Health Communication and Intervention
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- Sex Education
- Sex Workers
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Health
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention
- Situational Theory and Communication Behaviors
- Skin Cancer and Sun Safety
- Skin Cancer and Tanning
- Slow-Motion Technological Disaster, Responses to
- Smoking
- Social Action, Types of
- Social Aggregates
- Social Capital
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Social Comparison Theory
- Social Construction: Disability
- Social Construction: Reality
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Identity
- Social Judgment Theory
- Social Marketing
- Social Marketing: Community Change Perspective
- Social Media
- Social Networks: Overall
- Social Networks, Measurement of
- Social Networks and Message Delivery
- Social Norms
- Social Support: Relationship to Health
- Social Support, Types of
- Social Support and Cardiovascular Health
- Social Support and Support Groups
- Social Support Interventions
- Societal Risk Reduction Motivation Model
- Sociometric Social Networks
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Stigma Reduction
- Stigmatization
- Stigmatization: Courtesy Stigma
- Stigmatization: Labels, Marks, and Peril
- Stigmatization, Consequences of
- Stigmatization, Coping with
- Stress and Burnout: Emotional Labor
- Stress and Burnout: Home–Work Conflict
- Stress and Burnout: Overall
- Structural Violence and Health
- Structure-Centered Approach
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Suicide
- Support Providers and Persons with Disabilities, Decision Making between
- Supportive Listening
- Surrogate Decision Makers
- Systems Theory
- T
- Technology: Impact on Physician–Patient Dialogue
- Technology and Health Outcomes
- Teen Pregnancy
- Telemedicine
- Television
- Terminality
- Thailand
- Theoretical Frameworks, Communication Technology
- Theory of Motivated Information Management
- Theory of Normative Social Behavior
- Theory of Planned Behavior
- Theory of Reasoned Action
- Three Community and Five Cities Projects
- Tobacco
- Traditions of Health Communication Theory
- Trait Approaches
- Transitions, Health Effects, and Support
- Translational Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tuberculosis
- Turkey
- Twitter and Public Health
- U
- Uganda
- Uncertainty Management Theory
- UNICEF
- United Kingdom
- United States
- University–Community Relationships
- Uses and Gratifications Theory
- V
- Vaccinations
- Virtual Reality Environments
- Visual Information
- W
- Warning Labels: Alcohol
- Warning Labels: Cigarettes
- Warning Labels: Overview
- Warning Labels: Prescription Drugs
- Weak Tie/Strong Tie Network Support
- Web-Based Delivery
- Weick’s Model of Organizing
- Women’s Health
- Work Site Safety
- Working Well
- World Health Organization
- Z
- Zimbabwe
- Glossary
- Resource Guide
- Appendix: Health Communication Posters
- Photo Credits