Innovative Research in Health Communication
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 2701
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health; environmental and science communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to share a new special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) titled “Innovative Approaches to Health Communication Research.” This Special Issue focuses on innovative health communication, relating to advances in technologies as well as social settings and methodological approaches. We welcome academic research articles, case reports, and reviews of the literature. We encourage submissions by researchers and scholars from different disciplines, such as communication, computer science, environmental sciences, geography, health sciences, public health, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Health communication is an interdisciplinary, relatively young field. From its inception, it centered on problem-focused, applied approaches to research that integrated both interpersonal and mass mediated communication, as well as computer-mediated communication as this technology and the field evolved. In the past decade, tectonic changes in the ways in which humans communicate, and related societal and environmental processes, have led to innovations in health communication research. Advances in communication technologies, social and political processes from the rise of political populism to the “Me Too” and “Black Lives Matter” movements, climate change and other environmental perils, implementation and dissemination of genomics and precision-medicine, and, more recently, the emergence and rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), all disrupted previous models of health communication. These changes led to studies that were innovative in their approaches, methods, foci, contexts and the identity of the researchers (e.g., including community members as co-investigators). This special issue seeks to feature these innovations from diverse perspectives.
Our goal is to demonstrate such innovations in health communication, including in cancer communication, environmental health communication, communication about infectious diseases, and additional health communication topics. Specifically, we invite submissions that demonstrate innovations in one or more of the following:
New Media Environments, such as:
- social media data mining
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques
- online social network analysis
- crowdsourcing research tools (e.g., mTurk)
- online search data
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- neuroscience and biobehavioral approaches to communication
- geographic information systems
- AI-powered chatbots
- mHealth (mobile health)
Approaches to practicing health communication, such as:
- New strategies to engage communities in research, including innovations in community-based participatory research processes
- New strategies for bridging the digital divide
- Expanding the reach of communication technologies to digitally underserved communities
- Digital communication interventions throughout the life span
- Advances in communicating science (e.g., transitioning from citizen scientist models to community science, and crowd-sourced science)
- Novel approaches to changing power dynamics in research
- Advances in mixed-methods and other methodologies applied in health communication
Prof. Dr. Tamar Ginossar
Prof. Dr. Kimberly A. Kaphingst
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cancer communication
- computer-mediated communication
- digital divide
- genomic communication
- environmental health communication
