PHTH230: The Seven Considerations Of Health Communication

Esha Sinha

PHTH2300

4/18/22

Professor Elizabeth Glowacki

Final Reflection Paper

As I look into my future career goals, I hope to extract the terms, theories, strategies, and tactics of PHTH2300 to be a successful healthcare provider. In order to strengthen my heath communicative abilities, implicating what I have learned throughout the semester would allow me to reinforce proper health communicative etiquette. My particular interest in the MD route will require patient to provider interaction in which many communicative practices are required to be enforced and achieved. This class has taught me how to connect communication in the healthcare field to a setting where I can implicate my future endeavors. At the start of the semester, my opinions

With these seven factors, communicating about health, whether to the larger general public, or in a smaller clinical setting, would enforce a strong linkage between the public and healthcare. The considerations of health communications would allow for a better bridge to health any miscommunication that could occur. With this, there would be a drastic improvement in the health of individuals, families and communities. This has allowed me to reconsider all the factors that are relevant in not only communicating between patient to patient, but also educating the public on health concerns. As an aspiring provider, I hope to find a balance between these considerations in order to secure honesty with patients and the public. With improvements in communication of individuals and families, patient-caregiver interactions would be approached in effective terms. Communities would be able to prevent public health concerns, allowing for population health to

Motivational Interview involves “directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence”. The following communication would include addressing of elicit feelings, clarifying feelings and supporting decision making to resolve ambivalence. In Narrative medicine, patients’ experiences of illness are shared through stories, connecting their psychological and relational experiences to biological ones. These approaches would be effective in helping me understand a patient’s experience and build a patient-centered bond as a provider. In both cases, it is required for the caregiver to recognize the plights of patients and join patients in their illness experiences, while also demonstrating and responding with empathy, professionalism and trustworthiness. These are key learnings that I hope to address in my future