UID:
almafu_9959327572502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781444310832
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1444310836
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9781444310825
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1444310828
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1282139428
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9781282139428
Serie:
Communication in the public interest
Inhalt:
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 Dont We Get Care? Is the Public Good Good for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and Whats Politics Got to Do with It?.; Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system.; Translates what we know abo.
Anmerkung:
Talking about Health; Contents; Preface; 1 Why Communicating about Health Matters; It Answers the Question, "Who Am I?"; It Answers the Question, "Who's Responsible?"; It Opens the Gate for "Resources"; It Promotes (Mis)Understanding; It Guides Effort, Emotion, and Excuses; Summing It Up . . .; 2 How "Normal" Am I?; Compared to the Numbers; Compared to the Stories; When It Comes to Poor Health; When Choosing Alternative Treatments; When We Don't Want To Know; Summing It Up . . .; 3 What Are My "Risk" Factors?; Our Response to Reward Cues; Our Response to Punishment Cues; How We View Novelty
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When We ProcrastinateWhat God Has To Do with It; Summing It Up . . .; 4 Why Don't We Get "Care"?; Our Doctors Didn't Recommend It; Family or Friends Don't Support It; We Use Support Networks; We're Managing Impressions; We're too Optimistic or Fatalistic; Summing It Up . . .; 5 Is the "Public Good" Good for Me?; When We Have to "Tell"; When Our Freedoms Are Limited; When Safety Clashes with (E)Quality; What Nonprofits Have to Do with It; Why Public Health Matters; Summing It Up . . .; 6 Who Profits from My Health?; Pharma-, Cosme-, and Nutri-ceuticals; The News, It Is an Industry
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The Entertainment IndustryBand-Aids, Crutches, and More -- Oh My!; Who Benefits from our Health Illiteracy?; Summing It Up . . .; 7 What's Politics Got To Do with It?; Medical Research and Disparities; Political Agenda-setting and Priorities; Religious Agendas and Priorities; Medical Associations and Lobbyists; Patient Advocacy; Summing It Up . . .; 8 An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: Increase Informed Choice and Consent, or "If I Ran the Circus . . ."; Make "Personalized Medicine" Personal; Be Timely in the Telling; Fill in the Blanks
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Track Your Health Report (. . . and Your Credit Report, Too)Stay Out of "The Big Muddy"; Summing It Up . . .; A Final Thought; References; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Parrott, Roxanne. Talking about health. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 ISBN 9781405177573
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1405177578
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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DOI:
10.1002/9781444310832
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444310832
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444310832
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444310832
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