The value of health communication scholarship: New directions for health communication inquiry

A nationally representative cross‐sectional survey on health information access for consumers in Japan: A protocol for the INFORM Study

“…Their knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs are formed both by the cancer information received passively in the absence of any experience in seeking cancer information, and from the information they seek actively according to their own needs (Hornik et al, 2013; Johnson & Case, 2012; Niederdeppe et al, 2007). People act according to the behavioral intentions formed by the new knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that result from the relevant information they access (Kreps, 2020a). In the present study, to comprehend the route from information access to health behavior in people who do not engage in recommended health behaviors, we will evaluate media exposure, experience of cancer information seeking, selection of channels for obtaining information, and channel characteristics.…”

A profile of the health information seeker in Chile: Introducing the Chilean health information environments (EIS) survey

“…More recently, efforts have been undertaken outside of the United States to replicate the HINTS model and collect national data regarding health information acquisition and use. Efforts of this sort are currently in place in China, Colombia, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Switzerland (Kreps, 2020). Through these surveys, researchers have been able to understand how people access and use health information for themselves and for their close people across different cultures, how they perceive cancer risk and how much they know about prevention.…”

“…Even though recent studies have attempted to address the practices of information seeking and scanning among the Chilean population, they have been limited since they have not used representative samples, and therefore, their findings are not generalizable to the larger population (Halpern et al, 2015; Peña‐y‐Lillo, 2016). To fill this gap, we put forward the EIS survey, which is part of the International Studies to Investigate Global Health Information Trends (INSIGHTS; Kreps, 2020) research consortium's agenda. The overarching research question that the EIS survey addresses is what the current patterns of health information acquisition among individuals in Chile are.…”

Medicine together with humanities and media: An MHM model to move forward for health communication studies

“…This volume selects research papers from MHM 2019 conference took place in the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. We have excellent review on the health communication studies’ development in the U.S in the past 40 years [ 4 , 5 ] in this volume. We have detail accounts on health campaign with lessons learned and best practice shared [ 6 ] in this volume.…”

“…Gary Kreps [ 4 ] built an “all-inclusive” framework for health communication scholars and practitioners with training and backgrounds from communication sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and professional practices. He argued that no matter what focuses or interests of these research and practice have, health communication studies can be subdivided into five interrelated areas, namely, communication in the delivery of care, communication and health promotion, health risk communication, e-health communication, and communication in managing health care systems.…”