HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
Publisher: International Foundation for Biosocial Development and Human Health
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Printed in the United States at the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Language: eng
Format: Board
Number of pages: 347
Copyright date: 1979
Subjects: Communication in medicine.; Communication in medicine -- United States.; Medical care -- United States.
Genres: Medicine - Public Health; Education For Health; Health Care - United States
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 commitment of social 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 inportantly to me at least, exploration of those rapidly advancing fields that some call Social Darwinism, but which I have expressed in this book, and in other writings, as BIOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Description: A pioneer book seeking to cover the widely divergent and critically complex, often undefined sub-threshold fields of knowledge, information, communications science, technology, policy, public health, social history, medical philosophy, engineering sciences, 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 issues. 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, even 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 well set forth. Selected 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  for inclusion of Chapter 7  p. 155-174, 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 City.
Table of contents: title: Introduction/Acknowledgements; title: Chapter 1: The Nature Of Health In Society; title: Chapter 11: The Nature Of Communication; title: Chapter 111: Man In Relation To His Health Care Needs; title: Chapter1v: Strengthening Health Care Resources; title: Chapter v: Important Ambient Dominants In Health Care; title: Chapter v1: Health And Development In The USA; title: Chapter v11: The System Of Public Health Services In The USSR; title: Chapter v111: Physician And Patient; title: Chapter 1x: The Medical School As A Sociocultural Institution; title: Chapter x: Communication Strategies For Health Care; title: Chapter x1: Biographic, Media, And Information Support Systems; title: Chapter X11: Introduction To Computer Oriented Health Informatics