Welcome to Health Communication (HPP 608)!

Welcome to the Health Communication (HPP 608) course blog!

This is the page where I will add posts, so that you can submit your weekly reading response.

I will also add updates, articles, and post events to this page.

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  1. Reading through these chapters I was struck by the highlighted importance of a multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to both the study and the implementation of health communication. “Communication is a relationship business” and there are a myriad of relationships to contemplate in the health communication equation. What kind of relationship do health care providers have with researchers in health communication? As a nurse who works in a busy emergency department I know the importance of timely and correct communication but also realize that the actual time spent in my professional training did little to prepare me to be the high-level communicator my work requires.

    Though there are many levels to health communication the focus of these readings started at the personal level of communication rather than social, community or societal level. Door to door promotion is not uncommon in our culture and neither is the fact that we trust health providers more who can sell an image of confidence and knowledge to us. These examples demonstrate the dual definition of personal selling described in chapter 4.

    Elizabeth’s story shows us the power of stories as it gets at the heart of personal challenges associated with health care, AA, and dealing with dual diagnosis. We absorb information through stories very differently. Showing the stories of those who suffer from substance use disorder does so much to humanize and relate a persons story to our own personal experience. The communication strategy of stories worked very well to convey the writers points in a memorable way.

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