1.Health communication as an important field of study The field of health communication research,education,and application has grown rapidly over the past four decades as a major transdisciplinary area of research,education,and outreach.Health communication scholarship combines expertise from the communication sciences(including the sub-fields of interpersonal,group,organizational,intercultural,family,political,strategic,and environmental communication,rhetorical studies,journalism,mass media,and computer-mediated communication inquiry),the social sciences(with disciplines such as psychology,sociology,anthropology,economics,and political science),the physical sciences(with disciplines such as biology,pharmacology,and chemistry),and with professional fields of study(including Medicine,Nursing,Pharmacy,Dentistry,Health Administration,Public Health,Public Policy,Epidemiology,and Health Informatics)to examine the powerful influences of communication on health and illness[1-5].
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