PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Genetic Counseling, Ehealth, Electronic Health Record
27 Feb 2018
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Main goal intended to improve health status of individuals or populations . Interpersonal;organisational (university to the student, staff, company to workers);mass communication: medium face-to-face. Communication of personal diagnosis or treatment communication of risk (e. g. lyme disease) disease awareness service awareness (vaccine, screening) Disease prevention effective communication takes into account context. Default way of thinking of communication is educational (e. g. not helpful for alcohol related issues) Change people"s mindset in a very strategic way. Physical cognitive affective socio-cultural: note criticisms of model (okay framework) Health care professionals patient communication: importance for: health promotion disease prevention treatment, allows: convey info on physical & mental state; symptoms discuss treatment options, problems: gaps in understanding lack of emotional reassurances, deviant patient" perspective. Problems in communication are attributed to characteristics of patient (with the patient) Focus on patient characteristics and non-adherence than the focus of what is wrong with the patient.
