The global ubiquity of overuse and underuse of health-care resources and the gravity of
resulting harms necessitate an investigation of drivers to inform potential solutions. We …

OBJECTIVE: Patient empowerment and health literacy have both been studied empirically,
but they have hardly ever been explicitly linked. METHODS: Pertinent literature from the …

The essential guide to decoding messages in a media-saturated world Media Literacy
teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in …

The long-awaited third edition of Doing Qualitative Research by Benjamin F. Crabtree and
William L. Miller is out! Co-create your own inspired research stories with this reader-friendly …

Media, from television to the “new media”(including cell phones, iPads, and social media),
are a dominant force in children's lives. Although television is still the predominant medium …

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) has grown rapidly during the past
several decades and is now the most prominent type of health communication that the public …

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking …

Names: Thompson, Teresa L., editor.| Harrington, Nancy Grant, editor. Title: The Routledge
handbook of health communication/edited by Teresa L. Thompson, Nancy Grant Harrington …

Misinformation can influence personal and societal decisions in detrimental ways. Not only
is misinformation challenging to correct, but even when individuals accept corrective …

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading
textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available. It …