Communication in Health Organizations

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.

Detailed Table of Contents
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

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

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