Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS Stacey B. Day MD A pioneer book seeking to cover the widely divergent and critically complex, often undefined sub-threshold fields of knowledge, information, communications science, technology, policy, public health,… OL13757225W
Facilitating state health exchange communication through the use of health literate practices Facilitating state health exchange communication through the use of health literate practices Maria Elizabeth Hewitt "Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 will result in significant changes to the U.S. health care system. Among its many provisions, the ACA will extend access to health care covera… OL16666871W
Evidence-based Health Communication Evidence-based Health Communication Brian Brown Provides a review of the field of health communication and the kinds of evidence that have been collected concerning effective communication. This book also critically evaluates the kinds of training… OL16936595W
Narrative based health care Narrative based health care Trisha Greenhalgh Based on the sound methodology of using patients' stories to better understand and manage their disease, this should be an ideal learning aid across all disciplines. Examples focus on the care of dia… OL16951539W
The Politics of Invisibility The Politics of Invisibility Olga Kuchinskaya Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Eur… OL17834136W
Communicating public health information effectively Communicating public health information effectively Ross Brownson,Patrick L. Remington As the first of its kind, this book provides a comprehensive approach to help public health practitioners in both the public and private sector to improve their ability to communicate with different … OL20717106W
Health literacy Health literacy Jürgen M. Pelikan,Ilona Kickbusch,Franklin Apfel,Agis D. Tsouros As societies grow more complex, and people are increasingly bombarded with health information and misinformation, health literacy becomes essential. People with strong health literacy skills enjoy be… OL23314610W
Lies My Doctor Told Me Lies My Doctor Told Me Ken D. Berry MD xii, 183 pages ; 23 cm OL24317605W
The patient-doctor consultation in primary care The patient-doctor consultation in primary care Jill Thistlethwaite,Penny Morris The patient-doctor consultation is at the heart of general practice. This book explores the nature of the consultation in the 21st century. The important concepts of patient partnership and the invol… OL24845743W