HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS

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.