PSYC 3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Nonverbal Communication, Health Promotion, Systematic Review
12 Sep 2013
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Refers to all interpersonal, organization or mass communications that concerns health and is intended to improve the health status of individuals or populations. For healthcare providers effective health communications is vital in ensuring message reaches and influences its target. For consumers, effective health communication is important to make people aware of health risks and relevant services. For communication to occur you need a sender, a receiver, a message and a medium for transmitting the message. For senders it is important to consider the purpose and target destination. Good communication can enable patients to relay information about their physical and mental state that allow early identification of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of condition. Despite its importance health-care professionals (hcp) patient communication may not always be effective if there are gaps between what the hpc conveys and what the patient understands, and vice-versa. 2 general approaches to the study of hcp-patient communication: 1.
