400732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Communication, Health Promotion, International Communication
Document Summary
Health communication professionals are speci cally trained in methods and strategies for effective communication of public health messages, with quali cations in research, strategic development, and evaluating effectiveness. Health communication is taught in masters and doctoral programs. Scholars and practitioners in health communication are often trained in disciplines such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, public health, or medicine and then focus within their eld on either health or communication. Practitioners are pragmatic and draw from social-scienti c scholarship, theories from the humanities, and professional elds such as education, management, law and marketing. Professionals trained in health communication encounter a wide range of employment opportunities spanning between the public, private, and volunteer sectors and have the opportunity for a large amount of career mobility. International communication association of cially recognized health communication in 1975; in 1997, the american public health association categorised health communication as a discipline of public health education and health promotion.
