Talking About Health Why Communication Matters Roxanne Parrottauth by Roxanne Parrott(auth.) 9781405177573, 9781444310832, 1405177578, 1444310836 instant download after payment.

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all.

• Organized around six key questions about health and communication:  How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It?
• Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system
• Translates what we know about communication and health into useful guidelines for everyday practice
• Includes discussions of politics and healthcare, genetic testing, and alternative care
• The author's blog http://whyhealthcommunication.com/whc_blog/ focuses on why communicating about health can make a difference in our health and our quality of life

Content:
Chapter 1 Why Communicating about Health Matters (pages 1–19):
Chapter 2 How “Normal” Am I? (pages 20–39):
Chapter 3 What are My “Risk” Factors? (pages 40–59):
Chapter 4 Why Don't We Get “Care”? (pages 60–79):
Chapter 5 Is the “Public Good” Good for Me? (pages 80–100):
Chapter 6 Who Profits from My Health? (pages 101–120):
Chapter 7 What's Politics Got to do with it? (pages 121–140):
Chapter 8 An Agenda for the Twenty?First Century: Increase Informed Choice and Consent, or “If I Ran the Circus … ” (pages 141–163):