Health Communication

These programs focus on how people, individually and collectively, understand and accommodate to health and illness and the role of communication and media in shaping professional health care messages and public acceptance of these messages. They include courses in developing and using health-related and care-related messages and media, the goals and strategies of health care promotion, relationships, roles, situations, and social structures in the context of health maintenance and promotion, and applications to disease prevention, health advocacy, and communications concerning treatments.