Question

Why is Health Communication important? Be sure to support your response with research and provide a reference list below.

Construct a story showing how health communication can be used. For example, pretend to be a medical professional explaining side effects from a medication to a patient. If you use this example you would have to research a medication, list the medication, and demonstrate how you would explain the side effects to a patient. You can use examples from your readings in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.

Answer 1

Health information is very important to maintain health of people.By knowing about information we can better prevent and protect ourselves aganist disease causing organisms. Awareness increases health promotion and quality of life.

Health communication increases health information promotion such as campaigns, educational classes this inturn increases health literacy.The communication between patient and doctors increases the quality of treatment and also provide awareness to people.

As a medical professional

When I am treating a patient who is having headache,fever,muscle aches and he is also suffering from arthritis I recommended paracetamol to the patient because it is both pain and fever reducer.

I would first expalin the reason for prescribing paracetamol tablets for his condition because he is suffering from fever, headache,and muscle pain and he is also a arthritis patient.I would explain that paracetamol helps in reducing all this issues he is suffering.Then I would explain the side effects that may result for using paracetamol.

Paracetamol may cause serious harm and damage liver if it is overdosed so I would explain about the necessary dosage with the patient so he can remember and understand the reason for following the instructions for taking the required dosage.

I would explain that he should not take more than 3 alcohol baverages and side effects include vomtings, nausea,constipation.

If skin rash, itching,bloody stools and cloudy urine,pain in the lower back,red spots on skin then I would insists that the patient should consult doctor because he needs immediate medical attention.

After explaining the necessary information I would ask if he has any questions related to his condition and if there is then I would expalin to him.