CMN 10Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cognitive Therapy, Acculturation, Visual Language
Document Summary
Doctor encourages diabetic patient to lose weight. You talk to your roommate about alcohol poisoning. Can be found in formal and informal settings. Parents are health communicators when they talk to their children about eating healthy. Health communication: the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual decisions that enhance health. A state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity: both its study and it"s use. Medicine, sociology, public health, communication, psychology, journalism, public relations, economics, anthropology. Applied social science: concerned with understanding and solving problems in the real world. Theory-driven: theory > application > theory application. Contexts of application: studied and used in healthcare (between doctors and patients, public health (media campaigns, interpersonal relations (when parents, friends, strangers talk to you about maintaining health, commercial advertising (promoting prescription drugs) Environmental influences that shape people"s responses to those strategies.
