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The rhetoric of health and medicine is tied to the emergence of rhetoric of science in the early 1970s and 1980s. [10] Contemporary theorists such as Kenneth Burke, Michel Foucault, Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, and Steve Woolgar laid the theoretical groundwork for this early interest in the persuasive dimensions of scientific language.
Health communication is an area of research that focuses on the scope and implications of meaningful expressions and messages in situations or circumstances associated with health and health care. [9] Health communication is considered an interdisciplinary field of research, encompassing medical science, public health, and communication studies.
The Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering the field of health communication across the intersecting fields of healthcare, public health, global health, and medicine.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Eisenberg Conference Series brings together "[e]xperts in health communication, health literacy, shared decision-making, and related fields come together to ... offer insight into how state-of-the-art advances in medical science can be transformed into state-of-the-art clinical decision ...
The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.
Health Communication is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering health communication. It was established in 1989 and is published eight times per year by Taylor & Francis . The editor-in-chief is Teresa L. Thompson ( University of Dayton ).
Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health ...
Behavior change, in context of public health, refers to efforts put in place to change people's personal habits and attitudes, to prevent disease. [1] Behavior change in public health can take place at several levels and is known as social and behavior change (SBC). [2]