The Routledge handbook of health communication / edited by Teresa L. Thompson and Nancy Grant Harrington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Nature of Health Communication Scholarship -- Theoretical and Methodological Matters in Health Communication: Navigating Current and Future Directions -- Research Translation, Dissemination, and Implementation -- Narrative Features, Forms and Functions: Telling Stories to Foster Well-Being, Humanize Healthcare, and Catalyze Change -- Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Suicide -- Stigma, Communication, and Health -- Health and Relational Outcomes for Informal Caregivers -- Family Health Communication -- Palliative Care and End of Life Communication -- Social Support, Supportive Communication, Everyday Interpersonal Communication About Health and Illness -- Mutual Persuasion as Patient- Centered Communication -- Difficult Conversation Between Healthcare Providers and Patients -- Improving Clinician and Patient Communication Skills -- Patient-Provider Communication and Health Outcomes -- The Multiple Voices of Communication in Healthcare -- Interprofessional Communication: Healthcare Team, Patients Handoffs, and Multiteam Systems -- Health and Media: The impact of News and Entertainment -- Consumer Advertising and Health Communication -- Social Media and Health -- Health Misinformation -- Public Health Communication Campaigns -- Community-Based Interventions for Health Promotions and Disease Prevention and Treatment -- The Role of Technology in Health Communication: Trends and Trajectories -- Health Information Seeking -- Inroads Into Healthy Decision-Making: The Role of Health Literacy in Health Communication -- Communication, Health, and Equity: Structural Influences Intercultural Health Communication: Rethinking Culture in Health Communication -- Global Health Communication -- Public Health Crises -- Communicating About the Environment and Health -- Ethical Issues in Health Communication Campaigns -- Rethinking Imbalance of Power Through Health Communication: Challenges for Scholars, Practitioners, and Activists -- Conversation Analysis and Health Communication -- Advancing Health Communication Research: Issues and Controversies in Research Design and Data Analysis -- Health Communication Research and Practice at the Level of Government, Foundations, public Policy, and NGOs -- Challenges in Conducting Health Communication Research.

"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 the by 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 is new attention to policy and NGOs, marginalized populations such as migrants and refugees, the environment, global health, and health advocacy and activism. The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication"