HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
Edition: Printed in the United States at the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Publisher: International Foundation For Biosocial Development And Human Health
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, NY
Format: Board
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Medicine; Public Health Education; Education for Health; HEALTH CARE UNITED STATES
Genres: COMMUNICATION IN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE; HEALTH CARE UNITED STATES; Medical Care; Informatics (Health Care)
First sentence: "Some time ago Mr Melville Voight of California approached me with the suggestion that I write a book to be entitled COMMUNICATIONS AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY. I was aware that no general volume had appeared in this area of scholarship, and I certainly felt need for thrust in this important committment of concern. I have indeed devoted a great part of the last decade towards improving Health Education and Knowledge in Communication of Scientific Information; responsibility and accountability in Science toward Society; and importantly in exploration of those rapidly advancing fields that................" (BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEDICINE and INFORMATICS IN HEALTH CARE).
Description: A pioneer book seeking to cover the widely divergent and critically complex, often unidentified sub-threshold fields of knowledge, information, communications science, technology, policy, public health, social history, medical philosophy, engineering sciences (computers), to say nothing of economics, management, legislative burden, professional, moral, and methodological interactions, as well as inclusions from consumer  groups , health oriented citizen's views, patient organizations ( unions, social groups, social security agencies) all of whom are importantly concerned with the issue. One must include too professional bodies such as those that represent the medical professions, health related industries, and education, and training institutions - University Medical Schools, Nursing Institutes, and the Armed Forces and Military Commands, which inter-relate upon matters of Communication and Health Care Delivery.
Notes: Copiously illustrated with references and notes. Literature Sources are cited. Concept Plans and Network Presentations are set forth. Select Bibliography on Computers - p. 337-347. Glossary of General Purpose Computer Language p. 334 et seq. Section on Networking and on Computer Cartography (Mapping of Disease), are forward looking contributions of the book. Notable inclusion is Chapter 7 (page 155-174) on THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES IN THE U.S.S.R. in 1975-1977. Back cover presents biodata and photograph of the author in his office in the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, in New York, in 1979.