About ECA
Interest Groups: Health Communication
Mission Statement
The Health Communication Interest Group of ECA studies the processes, practices, and policies related to human and mediated communication in health care and health promotion. Research presented within this division evolves from a wide range of theories and methodological approaches that often address the ways individuals seek, interpret, and respond to health information. The interest group promotes scholarship that examines communication in health education and promotion, health care consumer-provider relationships, caregiving, healthcare organizations, health policy, health campaigns and interventions, communication and aging, lifespan development, risk communication, and e-health applications. The interest group welcomes submissions from scholars at all stages in their academic career, especially those interested in exploring and applying new theoretical perspectives to health communication.
Contact:
Jay Baglia, PhD
Department of Speech Communication
Rickenbach Learning Center, LC 234
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA 19530
(610) 683-4927
baglia@kutztown.edu
