Psychology

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

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Our experience of health and illness is shaped by our personal background, social networks, cultural context, and community affiliations. We undertook this edited volume because we believe communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various fac- ets of health and illness. For example, social networks and the social support they can provide are associated with mortality, morbidity, recovery, and coping with illness (for reviews, see Cohen, Underwood, & Gottlieb, 2000; Sarason, Sarason, & Gurung, 1997). Communication constructs and maintains net- works and is one of the chief means through which information, aid, and emotional support are sought and provided (for review, see Albrecht & Goldsmith, 2003). Likewise, there is substantial evidence that the quality of interactions with health care providers affects health outcomes, provider-patient relation- ships, and patients’ satisfaction (for reviews, see Brown, Stewart, & Ryan, 2003; Roter & Hall, 2006; Sans-Corrales et al., 2006; Suarez-Almazor, 2004) and that interventions to improve provider-patient interactions can improve communication skills and outcomes (for reviews, see Cegala & Broz, 2003; Griffin et al., 2004; Haywood, Marshall, & Fitzpatrick, 2006).

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Series Title

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

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Publisher

USA : Taylor & Francis Inc.., 2009

Collation

1-361

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

13: 978-0-203-92918-

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edtion

Subject(s)

Communication

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