Health Communication for Social Justice

Health Communication for Social Justice
Author: VINITA. AGARWAL
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781032081038

This textbook combines whole person and social justice perspectives to educate students on the role of communication in promoting inclusive and person-centered healthcare practices. This book explores health inequities experienced by disadvantaged and marginalized populations and outlines the actions students can take to address these challenges. The book demonstrates how physical, mental, and emotional health is connected to equitable understandings of individual, community, and environmental health. It considers how social, interpersonal, and systemic factors such as personal relationships, language, literacy, religion, technology, and the environment affect health equity. To present strategies and invite action to support the goals of the whole person, social justice activist approach, the book provides contemporary examples, interviews with communication scholars, and case studies that examine local communities and the everyday contexts of health meaning making. This textbook serves as a core or supplemental text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in health communication. Online resources include PowerPoint slides and an instructor manual containing sample syllabi, assignments, and test questions. They are available online at www.routledge.com/9781032081038.

Communication Activism

Communication Activism
Author: Lawrence R. Frey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Presents studies that promote public dialogue and discussion and that demonstrate how communication consulting can be used to accomplish needed social change. This volume, along with the other volume, shows how scholars have engaged in communication activism to assist individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to secure social reform.

Quantitative Research Methods in Communication

Quantitative Research Methods in Communication
Author: Erica Scharrer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000380211

This textbook is an advanced introduction to quantitative methods for students in communication and allied social science disciplines that focuses on why and how to conduct research that contributes to social justice. Today’s researchers are inspired by the potential for scholarship to make a difference for society, to push toward more just and equitable ends, and to engage in dialogue with members of the public so that they can make decisions about how to navigate the social, cultural, and political world equipped with accurate, fair, and up-to-date knowledge. This book illustrates the mechanics and the meaning behind quantitative research methods by illustrating each step in the research design process with research addressing questions of social justice. It provides practical guidance for researchers who wish to engage in the transformation of structures, practices, and understandings in society through community and civic engagement and policy formation. It contains step-by-step guidance in quantitative methods—from conceptualization through all the stages of execution of a study, including providing a detailed guide for statistical analysis—and demonstrates how researchers can engage with social justice issues in systematic, rigorous, ethical, and meaningful ways. This text serves as a core or supplementary textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in research methods for communication and social sciences and fills a gap for a methods text that is responsive to the desire of scholars to conduct socially impactful research.

Health Communication Fundamentals

Health Communication Fundamentals
Author: Suruchi Sood, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826173020

"The authors bring together a strong mix of theory, concepts, methods, practice, and research that come to life through multiple examples, experiences, and questions for reflections that any reader – whether seasoned or a newcomer into the public health communication field – should find extremely helpful and engaging. This book constitutes a significant contribution to the continuous fermentation and growth of the public health communication field."--Rafael Obregon, Country Representative, UNICEF Paraguay Health Communication Fundamentals: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation in Public Health is a comprehensive, practice-based textbook designed to equip students with the tools needed to excel in the public health communication workforce. Using a mix of domestic and global examples, the book guides readers through the entire health communication process— from planning and implementation to research, monitoring, and evaluation. Interdisciplinary perspectives and contemporary public health topics are explored throughout the book via real-world examples, case studies, and spotlights on professionals and organizations currently working to bring about positive individual and social change. Contemporary public health topics include communication for pandemics, social justice, anti-racism, chronic disease prevention, environmental health and justice, and mental health, to name just a few. Each chapter features a podcast interview with a professional currently working in a health communication related field, to show health communication skills in action and illustrate the wide variety of careers available in this dynamic and growing sector. Health Communication Fundamentals is an essential resource for students in a variety of health professional and communication-based programs, and will help prepare them to make unique and valuable contributions to jobs in health departments, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, private organizations, government, academia, the media, and more. Key Features: Focuses on evidence-based and theory-driven health communication practice Covers the entire communication campaign process – planning, implementation and evaluation of health communication initiatives that want to achieve social and behavior change Includes interdisciplinary perspectives and contemporary topics with a focus on health equity, social justice, and human rights Illustrates concepts using US and global examples, outcomes, and applications of health communication campaigns that span core public health topic areas Provides insight into career opportunities in health communication Audio podcasts highlight insights from leaders and experts with diverse careers in health communication Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers Qualified instructors have access to chapter PowerPoints, an Instructor’s Manual, Sample Syllabus, and Test Bank

Health Communication

Health Communication
Author: Renata Schiavo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118416392

Now in its second edition, Health Communication: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to theory, intervention design, current issues, and special topics in health communication. The book also represents a hands-on guide to program development, implementation, and evaluation. This second edition further emphasizes the importance of a people-centered and participatory approach to health communication interventions, which takes into account key social determinants of health as well as the interconnection of various health and social fields. While maintaining a strong focus on the importance of behavioral, social, and organizational results as key outcomes of health communication interventions, this second edition also includes new or updated information, theoretical models, resources, and case studies on: Health equity Urban health New media Emergency and risk communication Strategic partnerships in health communication Policy communication and public advocacy Cultural competence Health literacy The evaluation of health communication interventions To access a companion website with instructor resources (PowerPoint presentations for all chapters, sample assignments, and other resources), please visit www.wiley.com/go/schiavo2e This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from iTunes, Google Play or the MedHand Store.

Health Communication for Social Justice

Health Communication for Social Justice
Author: Vinita Agarwal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1003801773

This textbook combines whole person and social justice perspectives to educate students on the role of communication in promoting inclusive and person-centered healthcare practices. This book explores health inequities experienced by disadvantaged and marginalized populations and outlines the actions students can take to address these challenges. The book demonstrates how physical, mental, and emotional health is connected to equitable understandings of individual, community, and environmental health. It considers how social, interpersonal, and systemic factors such as personal relationships, language, literacy, religion, technology, and the environment affect health equity. To present strategies and invite action to support the goals of the whole person, social justice activist approach, the book provides contemporary examples, interviews with communication scholars, and case studies that examine local communities and the everyday contexts of health meaning making. This textbook serves as a core or supplemental text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in health communication. Online resources include PowerPoint slides and an instructor manual containing sample syllabi, assignments, and test questions. They are available online at www.routledge.com/9781032081038.

The Handbook of Global Health Communication

The Handbook of Global Health Communication
Author: Rafael Obregon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118241908

International in scope, The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change Brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wide range of communication approaches in current global health programs Offers an integrated view that links communication to the strengthening of health services, the involvement of affected communities in shaping health policies and improving care, and the empowerment of citizens in making decisions about health Adopts a broad understanding of communication that goes beyond conventional divisions between informational and participatory approaches

Teaching College Students Communication Strategies for Effective Social Justice Advocacy

Teaching College Students Communication Strategies for Effective Social Justice Advocacy
Author: Robert J. Nash
Publisher: Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9781433114366

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013. The book deals concretely with the most effective ways for educators to be social justice advocates, with questions about what it means to be a social justice advocate, and with the best communication strategies to advocate for a particular social justice view that might start and sustain an open dialogue. The book presents a number of practical approaches to dialoguing about social justice in formal educational settings. It is well suited for college students, graduate students, faculty and higher education administrators, politicians, and anyone interested in having a civil discourse addressing social justice.

Reproductive Justice and Women’s Voices

Reproductive Justice and Women’s Voices
Author: Beth L. Sundstrom
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498503144

Reproductive rights are human rights. Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan offers an in-depth analysis of women’s reproductive health in a transformative, sociopolitical moment that is redefining women’s access to health care; reducing disparities in maternal and child health is a critical public health goal for the United States. Sundstrom contributes to patient-centered public health by analyzing women’s reproductive health across the lifespan. Four critical body episodes: contraceptive use dynamics, pregnancy, childbirth, and the post-partum period explicate women’s understandings of control and embodiment in the context of technology. Women’s meaning making of each body episode is interrogated in three areas: (1) the physiological experience of reproductive health, (2) perceptions of medicine and the biomedical model, and (3) opinions of mediated messages about reproduction, including new media. Through stories and silence, the women interviewed in this book demand accurate information, including the risks and benefits of health care, and access to reproductive services and technologies. The analysis disrupts the nature/technology dualism and reconceptualizes health outside of the normative processes of menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. By talking with women, this study privileges women’s decision-making about reproductive health and offers insight for how women’s partners, families, and health care providers can support them in this process.