Aids: Effective Health Communication for the 90s - Effective Health Communicaton for the 90''s

List of contents

Introduction: Health Communication and AIDS: Setting the Agenda; 1: AIDS: Effective Health Communication; 1: Developing Strategic Communication Campaigns for HIV/AIDS Prevention; 2: Health Communication as Negotiation: The COAST Model and AIDS; 3: The Role of Care Partners in Managing AIDS Patients' Illness: Toward a Triadic Model of Health Care Delivery; 4: The Paradox of Accurate Information Increasing the Fear of AIDS; 5: Responses from the Street: ACT UP and Community Organizing Against AIDS; 2: AIDS: Communication, Education, and the Media; 6: Perceived Control in the Age of AIDS: A Review of Prevention Information in Academic, Popular, and Medical Accounts; 7: AIDS in the Media: Entertainment or Infotainment; 8: Crisis in Communication: Coverage of Magic Johnson's AIDS Disclosure; 3: AIDS: The Cutting Edge of Awareness, Action, and Policy; 9: Freedom of the Press to Cover HIV/AIDS: A Clear and Present Danger?; 10: Communication Disorders in Adults with AIDS; 11: Neurosurgical Professionalism and Care in the Treatment of Patients with Symptomatic AIDS; 12: Adolescents and HIV: Two Decades of Denial; 13: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: AIDS Action 2000 Plan; Afterword Communication and Prevention—They Are All We Have

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Scott C. Ratzan

Product details

• Authors: Scott C. Ratzan
• Assisted by: Scott C. Ratzan (Editor), Ratzan Scott C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2014
• EAN: 9781138011847
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01184-7
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Society & culture: general, Health psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Society and culture: general