Collection Development Manual

Health Communication

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Definition:

The study or use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health (adapted from Healthy People 2010).

Discussion:

This field encompasses many areas of research and practice, such as health risk communication, health literacy, mass communication of health and medicine, patient-professional communication, and the development of telemedicine applications.

Scope and emphasis:

Collected comprehensively.

See also:

Medical Informatics

Public Health

7/23/04