3rd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject’s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline’s leading scholars.
The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns, interventions, and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy, health equity, and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication, such as theory and method; multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation, implementation, and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs, the environment, public health crises, global health, mental health and mental illness, and marginalized populations such as Black, Latinx (a/o), Native/First People, and LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as the multiple challenges health communication researchers face in conducting research.
The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.
Section 1: Introduction
1. The Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Nature of Health Communication Scholarship
Elisia L. Cohen
2. Theoretical and Methodological Matters in Health Communication: Navigating Current and Future Directions
Nancy Grant Harrington, Diane B. Francis, and Aurora Occa
3. Research Translation, Dissemination, and Implementation
Janice L. Krieger, Donghee Lee, Melissa J. Vilaro, Danyell Wilson-Howard, Aantaki Raisa, and Yewande O. Addie
4. Narrative Features, Forms, and Functions: Telling Stories to Foster Well-Being, Humanize Healthcare, and Catalyze Change
Lynn M. Harter, Jill Yamasaki, and Anna M. Kerr
Section 2: Interpersonal and Family Health Communication
5. Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Suicide
Rosalie S. Aldrich and Jessie M. Quintero Johnson
6. Stigma, Communication, and Health
Xun Zhu and Rachel A. Smith
7. Health and Relational Outcomes for Informal Caregivers and Care-Recipients
Jacqueline Harvey, Meara H. Faw, and Elizabeth S. Parks
8. Family Health Communication
Maureen P. Keeley and Lauren Lee
9. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication
Elaine Wittenberg and Joy Goldsmith
10. Supportive Communication and Health
Erina L. MacGeorge and Yanmengqian Zhou
11. Everyday Interpersonal Communication about Health and Illness
Katharine J. Head, Jennifer J. Bute, and Katherine E. Ridley-Merriweather
Section 3: Patient-Provider Communication
12. Mutual Persuasion as Patient-Centered Communication
Jennifer Freytag and Richard L. Street, Jr.
13. Difficult Conversations between Healthcare Providers and Patients
Allison M. Scott
14. Improving Clinician and Patient Communication Skills
Brianna R. Cusanno, Nivethitha Ketheeswaran, and Carma L. Bylund
15. Patient-Provider Communication and Health Outcomes
Kelly Haskard-Zolnierek, Morgan Snyder, Rabecca-Kimberly Hernandez, and Teresa L. Thompson
Section 4: Healthcare Provider and Organizational Health Communication
16. The Multiple Voices of Communication in Healthcare
Margaret F. Clayton, Pearman D. Parker, and Lee Ellington
17. Interprofessional Communication: Teams, Handoffs, and Multiteam Systems
Kevin Real, Anne Ray Streeter, and Marshall Scott Poole
18. Stress and Burnout: A Review of Research in Health Organizations
Jennifer Ptacek and Julie Apker
Section 5. Mediated Communication
19. Health and Media: The Impact of News and Entertainment
Katherine A. Foss
20. Consumer Advertising and Health Communication
Michael Mackert, Deena Kemp, Daniela De Luca, and Rachel Esther Lim
21. Social Media and Health
Yan Tian and James D. Robinson
22. Health Misinformation
Xiaoli Nan, Yuan Wang, and Kathryn Thier
Section 6: Campaigns, Interventions, and Technology Applications
23. Public Health Communication Campaigns
Kami J. Silk, Tara L. Smith, Charles T. Salmon, Brandon D. H. Thomas, and Thanomwong Poorisat
24. Community-Based Health Interventions
Taylor Goulbourne, Charles R. Senteio, Kathryn Greene, and Itzhak Yanovitzky
25. Technology-based Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Treatment
Jessica Fitts Willoughby
26. The Role of Technology in Health Communication: Trends and Trajectories
Ronald E. Rice, S. Shyam Sundar, and Hyang-Sook Kim
Section 7: Over-arching Issues in Health Communication
27. Health Information Seeking
Nehama Lewis, Nancy Shekter-Porat, and Huda Nasir
28. Inroads into Healthy Decision Making: The Role of Health Literacy in Health Communication
Sarah A. Aghazadeh and Linda Aldoory
29. Communication, Health, and Equity: Structural Influences
Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Rachel F. McCloud, and Mesfin A. Bekalu
30. Intercultural Health Communication: Rethinking Culture in Health Communication
Elaine Hsieh
31. Global Health Communication
J. Douglas Storey
32. Public Health Crises
Lindsay Neuberger and Ann Neville Miller
33. Communicating about the Environment and Health
Amy E. Chadwick
Section 8: Challenges and Challenging Contexts in Health Communication Research and Practice
34. Ethical Issues in Health Communication in Clinical and Digital Setting and in Health Communication Campaigns
Nurit Guttman, Maram Khazen, and Eimi Lev
35. Rethinking Imbalances of Power through Health Communication: Challenges for Scholars, Practitioners, and Activists
Angela Cooke-Jackson, Andrew Spieldenner, Nicole Hudak, and Crystal Ben
36. Conversation Analysis and Health Communication
Kristella Montiegel and Jeffrey D. Robinson
37. Advancing Health Communication Research: Issues and Controversies in Research Design and Data Analysis
Ilona Fridman, Brian G. Southwell, Marco Yzer, and Michael T. Stephenson
38. Health Communication Research and Practice at the Level of Government, Foundations, Public Policy, and NGOs
Bradford W. Hesse
39. Challenges in Conducting Health Communication Research
Amy Koerber and Avinash Thombre
Biography
Teresa L. Thompson is Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton, USA. She edits the journal Health Communication.
Nancy Grant Harrington is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, USA.