The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject’s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline’s leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns, interventions, and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy, health equity, and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication, such as theory and method; multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation, implementation, and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs, the environment, public health crises, global health, mental health and mental illness, and marginalized populations such as Black, Latinx (a/o), Native/First People, and LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as the multiple challenges health communication researchers face in conducting research. The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

Section 1: Introduction 1. The Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Nature of Health Communication Scholarship Elisia L. Cohen 2. Theoretical and Methodological Matters in Health Communication: Navigating Current and Future Directions Nancy Grant Harrington, Diane B. Francis, and Aurora Occa 3. Research Translation, Dissemination, and Implementation Janice L. Krieger, Donghee Lee, Melissa J. Vilaro, Danyell Wilson-Howard, Aantaki Raisa, and Yewande O. Addie 4. Narrative Features, Forms, and Functions: Telling Stories to Foster Well-Being, Humanize Healthcare, and Catalyze Change Lynn M. Harter, Jill Yamasaki, and Anna M. Kerr Section 2: Interpersonal and Family Health Communication 5.Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Suicide Rosalie S. Aldrich and Jessie M. Quintero Johnson 6. Stigma, Communication, and Health Xun Zhu and Rachel A. Smith 7.Health and Relational Outcomes for Informal Caregivers and Care-Recipients Jacqueline Harvey, Meara H. Faw, and Elizabeth S. Parks 8.Family Health Communication Maureen P. Keeley and Lauren Lee 9. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication Elaine Wittenberg and Joy Goldsmith 10.Supportive Communication and Health Erina L. MacGeorge and Yanmengqian Zhou 11.Everyday Interpersonal Communication about Health and Illness Katharine J. Head, Jennifer J. Bute, and Katherine E. Ridley-Merriweather Section 3: Patient-Provider Communication 12. Mutual Persuasion as Patient-Centered Communication Jennifer Freytag and Richard L. Street, Jr. 13. Difficult Conversations between Healthcare Providers and Patients Allison M. Scott 14. Improving Clinician and Patient Communication Skills Brianna R. Cusanno, Nivethitha Ketheeswaran, and Carma L. Bylund 15. Patient-Provider Communication and Health Outcomes Kelly Haskard-Zolnierek, Morgan Snyder, Rabecca-Kimberly Hernandez, and Teresa L. Thompson Section 4: Healthcare Provider and Organizational Health Communication 16. The Multiple Voices of Communication in Healthcare Margaret F. Clayton, Pearman D. Parker, and Lee Ellington 17. Interprofessional Communication: Teams, Handoffs, and Multiteam Systems Kevin Real, Anne Ray Streeter, and Marshall Scott Poole 18. Stress and Burnout: A Review of Research in Health Organizations Jennifer Ptacek and Julie Apker Section 5. Mediated Communication 19. Health and Media: The Impact of News and Entertainment Katherine A. Foss 20.Consumer Advertising and Health Communication Michael Mackert, Deena Kemp, Daniela De Luca, and Rachel Esther Lim 21.Social Media and Health Yan Tian and James D. Robinson 22. Health Misinformation Xiaoli Nan, Yuan Wang, and Kathryn Thier Section 6: Campaigns, Interventions, and Technology Applications 23.Public Health Communication Campaigns Kami J. Silk, Tara L. Smith, Charles T. Salmon, Brandon D. H. Thomas, and Thanomwong Poorisat 24. Community-Based Health Interventions Taylor Goulbourne, Charles R. Senteio, Kathryn Greene, and Itzhak Yanovitzky 25. Technology-based Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Treatment Jessica Fitts Willoughby 26. The Role of Technology in Health Communication: Trends and Trajectories Ronald E. Rice, S. Shyam Sundar, and Hyang-Sook Kim Section 7: Over-arching Issues in Health Communication 27. Health Information Seeking Nehama Lewis, Nancy Shekter-Porat, and Huda Nasir 28.Inroads into Healthy Decision Making: The Role of Health Literacy in Health Communication Sarah A. Aghazadeh and Linda Aldoory 29. Communication, Health, and Equity: Structural Influences Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Rachel F. McCloud, and Mesfin A. Bekalu 30. Intercultural Health Communication: Rethinking Culture in Health Communication Elaine Hsieh 31. Global Health Communication J. Douglas Storey 32.Public Health Crises Lindsay Neuberger and Ann Neville Miller 33. Communicating about the Environment and Health Amy E. Chadwick Section 8: Challenges and Challenging Contexts in Health Communication Research and Practice 34. Ethical Issues in Health Communication in Clinical and Digital Setting and in Health Communication Campaigns Nurit Guttman, Maram Khazen, and Eimi Lev 35. Rethinking Imbalances of Power through Health Communication: Challenges for Scholars, Practitioners, and Activists Angela Cooke-Jackson, Andrew Spieldenner, Nicole Hudak, and Crystal Ben 36. Conversation Analysis and Health Communication Kristella Montiegel and Jeffrey D. Robinson 37. Advancing Health Communication Research: Issues and Controversies in Research Design and Data Analysis Ilona Fridman, Brian G. Southwell, Marco Yzer, and Michael T. Stephenson 38. Health Communication Research and Practice at the Level of Government, Foundations, Public Policy, and NGOs Bradford W. Hesse 39. Challenges in Conducting Health Communication Research Amy Koerber and Avinash Thombre

Teresa L. Thompson is Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton, USA. She edits the journal Health Communication. Nancy Grant Harrington is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, USA.