HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS

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.

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