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Show Theme: Introduction and History of Health Communication
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OnAir Post: Health Comm Live #1
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History of Health Communications
The Study of Health Communication
Health communication has developed over the last twenty-five years as a vibrant and important field of study concerned with the powerful roles performed by human and mediated communication in health care delivery and health promotion. Health communication inquiry has emerged as an exciting applied behavioral science research area. It is an applied area of research not only because it examines the pragmatic influences of human communication on the provision of health care and the promotion of public health, but also because the work in this area is often used to enhance the quality of health care delivery and health promotion. To this end, health communication inquiry is usually problem-based, focusing on identifying, examining, and solving health care and health promotion problems.
About Gary Kreps
University Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication, George Mason University
Director, Center for Health and Risk Communication
Gary L. Kreps is a University Distinguished Professor of the Department of Communication at George Mason University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Communication Research, Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Consumer-Provider Health Communication, Health Communication Campaigns, and E-Health Communication.
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About Alicia Mason
Associate Professor, Pittsburg State University
Interests: risk/crisis communication spans organizational/business, public health, and environmental contexts, medical tourism
Dr. Mason is a former broadcaster, who worked with local media outlets KOAM and KKOW in SE Kansas, prior to receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
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