A program that focuses on how people, individually and collectively, understand and accommodate to health and illness and the role of communication and media in shaping professional health care messages and public acceptance of these messages. Includes instruction in the development and use of health-related and care-related messages and media; the goals and strategies of health care promotion; relationships, roles, situations, and social structures in the context of health maintenance and promotion; and applications to disease prevention, health advocacy, and communications concerning treatments.
| A major in Health Communication is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 3
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Health Communication among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA | 2
(0.6%) |  |  | |
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| | Ohio University-Main Campus
Athens, OH | 9
(0.2%) |  |  | |
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| | North Dakota State University-Main Campus
Fargo, ND | 1
(0.1%) | |  | |
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