Discussion Topics For 2/9/2010

Tonight's discussion topics:

• Blog post reviews and discussion.
  
• Bookmarking links and discussion.
• Trust and transparency as key issues in communication, as exemplified by Toyota specifically, and the financial services industry in general. Trust is hard-won over decades and can be lost in one crisis...lessons for healthcare communication.
• Schiavo says health care communication is "audience centered, research based, multidisciplinary, strategic, process oriented, cost-effective, creative in support of strategy, audience and media-specific, relationship-building, and aimed at behavorial or social change. Think...consider...discuss.
  
• Cultural, gender, ethnic, religious and geographical influences on health care communication and conceptions of health. How does who we are affect what we think, say and do?
  

I would also like to hear from each of you re: topic you're planning to for your major project.

2/19/2010 blog assignment: Pick one unique population and discuss how culture, gender, ethnicity, religious and/or geography will affect conceptions of health and health care communication. (Note: this should be longer than the standard 2 paragraphs!)