Health Communication
Term:
Summer 2012
Online:
No
Subject Area:
COMMUNICATIONS (COMM)
Course Number:
COMM 237 910
Day(s):
Monday
Day(s):
Wednesday
Instructor:
TAN, ANDY
Primary Program:
School of Arts and Sciences Course Description:
An examination of the influence of public health communication on health behavior. The course considers: intervention programs addressing behaviors related to cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, drug use, obesity and others; theories of health behavior change; issues in the design of effective health communication programs; concerns about the portrayal of health and medicine on mass media.
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