Routledge Research in Health Communication
Humor and Health in the Media: Raising the Question, Should Illness be Funny?
1st Edition
By Malynnda A. Johnson
December 26, 2025
Examining popular media portrayals of various health topics, this book offers a critical analysis of how those mediated messages can impact, for good or ill, people’s physical and mental health. Looking specifically at how various depictions of health topics have both aided in the normalization of ...
Covid-19 Misinformation Flows: Challenges and Options for Reconstructing and Disseminating Mediated Messages
1st Edition
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By Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
September 30, 2025
Covid-19 Misinformation Flows describes challenges in accessing, collecting, processing, and disseminating information on pandemics, with a focus on Covid-19 communication. An international team of authors addresses the role of disinformation and misinformation in managing the communication of ...
Healthcare and Patient Communication in the Digital Era: A Patienthood and Patient Perspective
1st Edition
By Sinikka Torkkola, Anna Sendra Toset
September 15, 2025
This book provides a social and cultural theoretical framework for the digitalization of healthcare communication from a patient-centred perspective. Through empirical case studies, the book outlines the experiences of patients as the digitalization of healthcare communication re-spatializes and ...
Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees: Cases, Theories, and Strategies
1st Edition
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By Do Kyun David Kim, Gary L. Kreps
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes important international cases of immigrant and refugee health from diverse communication perspectives, providing theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing future health communication campaigns and interventions for global health promotion. ...
Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural Interpretations
1st Edition
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By Ambar Basu, Andrew R. Spieldenner, Patrick J. Dillon
January 29, 2024
This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and ...
Immigration and Strategic Public Health Communication: Lessons from the Transnational Seguro Popular Project
1st Edition
By Robert Smith, Don Waisanen, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa
September 30, 2021
This book engages a key question facing governments and similar institutions in countries of immigration or emigration: how should these governments and institutions communicate with immigrants so that they will listen to and act on their messages?Drawing on original research with Mexican emigrants...
Culture, Migration, and Health Communication in a Global Context
1st Edition
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By Yuping Mao, Rukhsana Ahmed
December 10, 2019
Both international and internal migration brings new challenges to public health systems. This book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature, as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture, migration, and health communication in different countries. It ...
Communicating Women’s Health: Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions
1st Edition
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By Annette Madlock Gatison
January 03, 2018
This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to ...