COMM 328 - Health Communication

Credit Hours: 3

This course explores the concept of health communication, while also emphasizing medical models of communication, patient-provider communication, diversity in healthcare, cultural
conceptions of health and illness, gender issues in health and illness, social support, health images in the media, family and end-of-life communication, planning health promotion
campaigns, and careers in healthcare and health communication. Additional emphasis is placed on how these topics are best understood as embedded in the American culture and the influence that communication has in health-related environments.