Health Communication Books

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41. Tailoring Health Messages

    Customizing Communication With Computer Technology

    By Matthew W. Kreuter, David W. Farrell, Laura R. Olevitch, Laura K. Brennan

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that are customized based on the unique needs, interests, and concerns of different individuals. These tailored health...

    Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
42. The Educator's Guide To Substance Abuse Prevention

    By Sanford Weinstein

    The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention is for educators and other school personnel who are concerned about student drug use and school violence. It will help them to appreciate and use their humanity, professional skills, educational ideals, and the school curriculum as tools for...

    Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
43. The Educator's Guide To Substance Abuse Prevention

    By Sanford Weinstein

    The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention is for educators and other school personnel who are concerned about student drug use and school violence. It will help them to appreciate and use their humanity, professional skills, educational ideals, and the school curriculum as tools for...

    Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
44. Communication, Race, and Family

    Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Edited by Thomas J. Socha, Rhunette C. Diggs

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs argue that the hope for managing America's troubles with "race" lies not only with communicating about...

    Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
45. Power in the Blood

    A Handbook on Aids, Politics, and Communication

    Edited by William N. Elwood

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    In this single volume, William N. Elwood has gathered potent evidence of the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on the world, its communities, and its inhabitants, and he addresses the role of communication in affecting the way in which people respond to AIDS. With a multidisciplinary group...

    Published October 31st 1998 by Routledge
46. Preventing Aids

    A Sourcebook for Behavioral Interventions

    By Seth C. Kalichman

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviors. It synthesizes the empirical literature on individual, group, and community-level interventions and provides an objective and detailed assessment of intervention outcomes. Factors...

    Published April 30th 1998 by Psychology Press
47. Aspects of Confused Speech

    A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers

    By Pamela Shakespeare

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved. The...

    Published November 30th 1997 by Routledge
48. Aspects of Confused Speech

    A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers

    By Pamela Shakespeare

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved. The...

    Published November 30th 1997 by Routledge
49. Black Women's Health

    A Special Double Issue of women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy

    Edited by Hope Landrine, Elizabeth A. Klonoff

    In this special issue, top researchers from a diversity of disciplines provide an overview of and insights into the major social, cultural, and structural variables that play a role in Black women's poor health, and differential morbidity and mortality. The articles focus on the major threats to...

    Published November 30th 1997 by Psychology Press
50. Humor and the Healing Arts

    A Multimethod Analysis of Humor Use in Health Care

    By Athena du Pr‚, Athena du Pre

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Offering a social scientific look at humor's role in medical transactions, this volume is based on extensive field study in seven medical settings. It includes excerpts from dozens of actual conversations between patients and caregivers. Analysis of these episodes reveals that humor is a practical...

    Published October 31st 1997 by Routledge