COM 449

Advanced Issues in Health Communication

Provides in-depth examination of key theoretic and applied approaches to health communication. Topics include health communication models, doctor-patient communication, gender issues and health, health information campaigns, mass-media influences on health, the role of culture on health and disease, the health-care organization, group influences on well-being, communication and mental health, communication and social health, and the politics of health communication.

Units: 3.0