[ecrea] Call for articles for a special issue of the International Review of Social Research on “Health and Communication”

Call for articles for a special issue of the International Review of 
Social Research on “Health and Communication”



Health communication is concerned with “the powerful roles performed by 
human and mediated communication in health care delivery and health 
promotion”. It is an extremely broad research area, examining many 
different levels and channels of communication in a wide range of social 
contexts.

Following Thompson, Dorsey, Millet and Parrott one can didactically 
speak about three main spheres of influence: societal, expert discourse 
and lay discourse. At the same time, the levels for health communication 
analysis include intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, 
and societal communication. In addition, health communication inquiry 
involves examination of a broad range of communication channels, 
including face-to-face and mediated communication between providers and 
receivers, among members of health care teams, and among patients (e.g., 
via support groups).

The International Review of Social Research is seeking contributions for 
a special issue devoted to “Health and Communication”. The review is 
particularly interested in studies of new approaches to health and 
communication that have the potential to increase the body of knowledge 
on the subject and catalyze more such research in the future.

Contributions exploring any context of health communication are welcome.

These may include, but are not limited to:

1.      Policy of Health Communication

2.      Organizational aspects of Health Communication

3.      Culture and Health Communication

4.      Health Communication in the Community

5.      Health Communication in Mass Media

6.      Interpersonal Health Communication

7.      Technology and Health Communication

Guest editors for the special issue:

Simone Carlo, Department of Communication Sciences, Università Cattolica 
di Sacre Cuore, Italy.

Galit Nimrod, Department of Communication Studies and The Center for 
Multidisciplinary Research in Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 
Israel

Valentina Marinescu, Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest, 
Romania.

The general instructions for authors are available at: 
http://www.irsr.eu/instructions.html

The deadline of submitting the article is 15th of October 2012.

If you have any questions, please contact the editors at: 
(healthandcommunication /at/ irsr.eu)

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