Overview of Health Communication Flashcards
What can health communication do all by itself?
Increase awareness of a health problem or solution
Influence perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes that may change social norms
Prompt action
Demonstrate healthy skills
Show the benefit of behavior change
Advocate a position on a health policy
Increase demand or support for health services
Refute myths and misconceptions
Strengthen organizational relationships
What can health communication do in combination with other strategies?
Cause sustained change in which an individual or group adopts and maintains a new health behavior
Effect a policy change
Overcome barriers to healthy living
What can health communication alone NOT do?
Compensate for inadequate health care or access to care
Produce sustained change in health behavior
Fix all health issues
who can health communication affect?
everyone(regular people, kids, families, doctors)
Who are health communication specialists and what do we do?
the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health and behavior change.
