… Health literacy and health communication studies are moving beyond measures of the
individual patient to evaluate health systems and providers. Consequently, it is important to …

… severity), if they believe that a particular course of action available to them would reduce the
… perceive few negative attributes related to the health action (perceived barriers). Additionally…

… In this paper, we aimed at presenting an interdisciplinary review of the research literature
on health communication to prevent obesity and related health problems, such as metabolic …

… when using technical language. Overall, the results of our study point to the positive effect
of everyday language in online health communication. Everyday language not only positively …

… in the same language, becomes a recurrent public health issue, … ’ language needs with
respect to health communication may … –physician interactions and health care decision making. …

… After setting up the scope of health communication as a field of … and scholars of health
communication use in evaluating … take toward the study of health communication? Our introductory …

… social scientist and the general public whose health and well being is our concern.
Consequently, most of our public health communications are designed to inform and alert recipients …

… to improve intercultural communication in healthcare. Main … can language barriers in
intercultural health communication be … to improving intercultural health communication?” In this …

… ' communicative action about their health problems. In particular, this study focuses on
comparing two different types of communicative action—… information about health problems and …

… This meta-analysis assessed the persuasive effects of narratives in health communication.
A search of the literature identified 25 studies (N = 9,330) that examined the effects of …