Godfrey A. Steele (ed.)
Godfrey Anthony Steele
Kingston, Jamaica
University of the West Indies Press
Health communication in the Caribbean and beyond :a reader
2011
9789766402419
9766402418
256 pages
Medical Studies
Communication in medicine - Caribbean, English-speaking.
Communication in public health - Caribbean, English-speaking.
Communication in medicine - Study and teaching (Higher) - West Indies, British.
| Contents | 6 |
| Preface | 8 |
| Introduction | 10 |
| 1. Teaching Medical Communication Skills at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad | 16 |
| 2. Gender Differentials on Breaking Bad News | 30 |
| 3. The Need to Teach Non-verbal Skills with Multicultural Sensitivity | 53 |
| 4. Health Communication Skills | 70 |
| 5. Communication and Adherence in the Caribbean | 84 |
| 6. Counselling, Culture and Communicationfor Change | 100 |
| 7. Provider-Patient Communication Clinic and Community Projects in Belize | 116 |
| 8. Web-Based Strategies for HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Anglophone Caribbean | 136 |
| 9. “There’s No Easy Way to Say This . . .” | 150 |
| 10. Lessons Learned from Two HIV Education Activities and Interventions in Trinidad and Tobago | 167 |
| 11. Interpersonal and Mass-MediatedCommunication in an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in Trinidad and Tobago | 202 |
| 12. Health Education and Health Communication Projects in Two Rural Villages in Belize | 221 |
| 13. Religiosity and HIV/AIDS Stigma in Jamaica | 236 |
| 14. Public Health Education in Barbados | 254 |
| Contributors | 264 |