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Information: Health communication is a subfield that focuses on two major issues:
1. How communication techniques can be used to improve the public's understanding of health issues, such as smoking or diet.
2. How health care professionals, such as doct This page was last updated on December 22nd, 2008
Journal of Health Communication
Tables of contents and submission information for quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on interpersonal health communication and public health campaigns. http://www.gwu.edu/~cih/journal/
Health Risk Communication Primer
Practical guide from the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to communicating health risks to the public in writing, through meetings, and through the mass media. Includes bibliography. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/primer.html
HealthCommKey
A database of health communication literature, focusing on communication research and practice in the context of public health. Produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/hcomm/
Health Communication
Scholarly article summarizes the current and future state of dissemination of health information through various media. http://www.health.gov/HealthyPeople/Document/HTML/volume1/11HealthCom.htm
Additional
Information: Health communication is a subfield that focuses on two major issues:
1. How communication techniques can be used to improve the public's understanding of health issues, such as smoking or diet.
2. How health care professionals, such as doct
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