A seminal text, this new edition provides students and scholars a comprehensive survey of the subject's key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline's leading scholars. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

Teresa L. Thompson is Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton, USA. She edits the journal Health Communication.

Nancy Grant Harrington is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Section 1: Introduction 1. The Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Nature of Health Communication Scholarship 2. Theoretical and Methodological Matters in Health Communication: Navigating Current and Future Directions 3. Research Translation, Dissemination, and Implementation 4. Narrative Features, Forms, and Functions: Telling Stories to Foster Well-Being, Humanize Healthcare, and Catalyze Change Section 2: Interpersonal and Family Health Communication 5. Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Suicide 6. Stigma, Communication, and Health 7. Health and Relational Outcomes for Informal Caregivers and Care-Recipients 8. Family Health Communication 9. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Communication 10. Supportive Communication and Health 11. Everyday Interpersonal Communication about Health and Illness Section 3: Patient-Provider Communication 12. Mutual Persuasion as Patient-Centered Communication 13. Difficult Conversations between Healthcare Providers and Patients 14. Improving Clinician and Patient Communication Skills 15. Patient-Provider Communication and Health Outcomes Section 4: Healthcare Provider and Organizational Health Communication 16. The Multiple Voices of Communication in Healthcare 17. Interprofessional Communication: Teams, Handoffs, and Multiteam Systems 18. Stress and Burnout: A Review of Research in Health Organizations Section 5. Mediated Communication 19. Health and Media: The Impact of News and Entertainment 20. Consumer Advertising and Health Communication 21. Social Media and Health 22. Health Misinformation Section 6: Campaigns, Interventions, and Technology Applications 23. Public Health Communication Campaigns 24. Community-Based Health Interventions 25. Technology-based Interventions for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Treatment 26. The Role of Technology in Health Communication: Trends and Trajectories Section 7: Over-arching Issues in Health Communication 27. Health Information Seeking 28. Inroads into Healthy Decision Making: The Role of Health Literacy in Health Communication 29. Communication, Health, and Equity: Structural Influences 30. Intercultural Health Communication: Rethinking Culture in Health Communication 31. Global Health Communication 32. Public Health Crises 33. Communicating about the Environment and Health Section 8: Challenges and Challenging Contexts in Health Communication Research and Practice 34. Ethical Issues in Health Communication in Clinical and Digital Setting and in Health Communication Campaigns 35. Rethinking Imbalances of Power through Health Communication: Challenges for Scholars, Practitioners, and Activists 36. Conversation Analysis and Health Communication 37. Advancing Health Communication Research: Issues and Controversies in Research Design and Data Analysis 38. Health Communication Research and Practice at the Level of Government, Foundations, Public Policy, and NGOs 39. Challenges in Conducting Health Communication Research