Communication in Health Organizations

Julie Apker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2011
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-4754-8 (ISBN)

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* Only book to date focusing on communication occurring in health organizations. * Flexibility for use in different health communication courses and class formats. * Breadth of research reviewed applies to exploring communication in multiple health-related disciplines.

Communication in Health Organizations explores the communication processes, issues, and concepts that comprise the organization of health care, focusing on the interactions that influence the lives of patients, health professionals, and other members of health institutions. This book integrates scholarship from communication, medicine, nursing, public health, and allied health, to provide a comprehensive review of the research literature. The author explains the complexities and contingencies of communication in health settings using systems theory, an approach that enhances reader understanding of health organizing. The reader will gain greater familiarity with how health institutions function communicatively, and why the people who work in health professions interact as they do. The text provides multiple opportunities to analyze communication occurring in health organizations and to apply communication skills to personal experiences. This knowledge may improve communication between patients, employees, or consumers. Understanding and applying the concepts discussed in this book can enhance communication in health organizations, which ultimately benefits health care delivery.

Communication in Health Organizations offers students, researchers, and health practitioners a unique multi-disciplinary perspective that invites stimulating reflection, discussion, and application of communication issues affecting today's health system.

Julie Apker is Associate Professor of Communication at Western Michigan University.

List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements.

Introduction

Chapter 1 Landscape of Healthcare Delivery

Chapter 2 Organizational Assimilation.

Chapter 3 Identity and Power.

Chapter 4 Stress, Burnout, and Social Support.

Chapter 5 Change and Leadership.

Chapter 6 Health Teams.

Chapter 7 Health Organization Quality.

Chapter 8 Health Communication Technologies.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.10.2011
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 218 mm
Gewicht	504 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7456-4754-5 / 0745647545
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-4754-8 / 9780745647548
Zustand	Neuware