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Online health communities [PDF]
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006 Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances. They are supported by a variety of technologies (e.g., email lists, forums, chat rooms) and are hosted by patients, advocacy groups, medical organizations, and corporations.
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Health literacy and health communication [PDF]
BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2010 Health communication consists of interpersonal or mass communication activities focused on improving the health of individuals and populations. Skills in understanding and applying information about health issues are critical to this process and may have a substantial impact on health behaviors and health outcomes.
Kiuchi Takahiro, Ishikawa Hirono
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Community health advocacy [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006 Competing health needs of diverse populations and ever shrinking resources available to support these needs often serve as the impetus for the initiation of advocacy efforts to improve community health. However, perceptions of what constitutes a community differ, as do approaches to advocacy itself.
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Communicating health risk [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 1999 Health risk communication is a two way interactive process that involves the exchange of information among interested parties about the nature, magnitude, significance, or control of a risk. Although it has only recently become a topic for scientific research, much has been learned in relation to the strategies and the techniques that contribute to ...
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, 2011 The area of health communication research and theory focuses primarily on the application of communication theory, concepts, and strategies in the service of enhancing public health, and understanding how such processes work. The approaches are numerous and represent significant scholarship across bio-psycho-social levels of analysis.
Glenn Leshner, Elizabeth Gardner
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Women’s health is community health [PDF]
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2019 +9 more sources
Community Health Education [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1940 openaire +2 more sources
Video Remote Sign Language Interpreting and Health Communication for Deaf Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]
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