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Health Communication

Health communication is a subfield that focuses on two major issues: Health communication therefore overlaps with interpersonal communication and advertising/public relations. It is as likely to be taught in schools of Public Health as in traditional Speech Communication departments. The field is relatively new, dating back to the mid-1970s.

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• - Scholarly article summarizes the current and future state of dissemination of health information through various media.
  
• - Practical guide from the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to communicating health risks to the public in writing, through meetings, and through the mass media. Includes bibliography.
  
• - A database of health communication literature, focusing on communication research and practice in the context of public health. Produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  
• - Tables of contents and submission information for quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on interpersonal health communication and public health campaigns.
  
• - Final Report of an Australian project to use information technology to communicate health information in rural and remote areas.
  
  

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