Communications Question

Purpose

Through these reflection assignments, you will learn how to:

develop and clearly define your ideas through writing.

Express yourself through writing by posing questions, making original claims, and coherently structuring complex ideas.

This paper is designed to help you learn how to:

Critically evaluate the communication you encounter in health-related experiences.

Were you most satisfied with the communication during the encounter? Why or Why not?

What lessons can you identify from your experience experience about the nature of health and health communication?

Tips for success:

Always use concepts from the reading to analyze and understand the experience you’re describing. This is beyond just describing, but it is about explaining why and how.

Below is a list of concepts you can and should reference when analyzing the health-related experience you’re writing about:

What is health?

The relational approach

social-ecological model

Health care models: biomedical, biopsychosocial, and sociocultural.

The influence of health communication on health.