Expanding Horizons in Health Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Health Communication and Mental Well-being in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Talking About Trauma in Migrant Worker Returnee Narratives: Mental Health Issues

      • Hans J. Ladegaard

      Pages 3-27

   3. Prompting Strategies and Outcomes in Picture-Based Counseling

      • Dennis Tay, Jin Huang, Huiheng Zeng

      Pages 29-46

   4. Understanding the Perspectives of Counsellors and Clients in School-Based Counselling in Hong Kong

      • Mark Harrison, Phoenix Lam

      Pages 47-66

   5. What Happens to the Holistic Care of Patients in Busy Oncology Settings?

      • E. Angela Chan

      Pages 67-81

3. Health Communication in Patient-provider Contexts in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Examining Patient Preferences for Integrative Chinese-Western Colorectal Cancer Care in Hong Kong

      • Wendy Wong, Herbert H. F. Loong, Allyson K. Y. Lee, Ambrose H. N. Wong, C. H. Sum, Jessica Y. L. Ching et al.

      Pages 85-105

   3. Framing Boundaries of Medical Interactions: Data from China

      • Ying Jin

      Pages 107-131

   4. Understanding the Co-construction of Medical Consultations in Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Discourse Structural Analysis

      • Jesse W. C. Yip, Chenjie Zhang

      Pages 133-160

   5. Instructions as Actions for Initiating Exercise Therapy in Physiotherapy in Hong Kong

      • Veronika Schoeb, Adrian Yip

      Pages 161-178

   6. Shift-to-Shift Nursing Handovers at a Multi-cultural and Multi-lingual Tertiary Hospital in Singapore: An Observational Study

      • Phillip R. Della, Fazila Aloweni, Shin Yuh Ang, Mei Ling Lim, Thendral Uthaman, Tracey Carol Ayre et al.

      Pages 179-203

4. Health Communication in Organizational, Campaign and Information Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Assessment of Safety Culture: A Singapore Residential Aged Care Cross-Sectional Study

      • Phillip R. Della, Lina Ma, Pamela A. Roberts, Huaqiong Zhou, Rene Michael, Satvinder S. Dhaliwal

      Pages 207-221

   3. A Systematic Scoping Review of Cancer Communication About Prevention and Detection in Bangladesh

      • Aantaki Raisa, Carma Bylund, Sabrina Islam, Janice Krieger

      Pages 223-248

   4. Convincing a Sceptical Public: The Challenge for Public Health

      • Louise Cummings

      Pages 249-274

   5. Visualizing Conversations in Health Care: Using Discursis to Compare Cantonese and English Data Sets

      • Alice Yau, Margo Turnbull, Daniel Angus, Bernadette Watson

      Pages 275-293

5. Back Matter

   Pages 295-300

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This book explores the ways in which Eastern and Western medical knowledge inform each other in the treatment of people in Asia across a wide range of health issues. To do so, it brings together health communication scholars from diverse disciplines both in Hong Kong and worldwide and combines their observations and expertise with those of clinicians working in healthcare in Asia to provide a topical portrait of the expanding horizons of healthcare in Asia. Social scientists and clinicians discuss their research and clinical practice respectively using a range of analytic approaches that include traditional qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as cutting-edge computer diagnostics that digitally visualize health interactions across time. 
The book presents an innovative and interdisciplinary investigation of Eastern and Western perspectives on healthcare in Asia. It covers topics concerned with a range of mental and physical problems that are currently confronting Asia. Importantly, the views and experiences of front line clinicians delivering patient care in Asia are also included. Accordingly, the book offers varied and innovative perspectives on health communication issues in China, Singapore, Bangladesh and Australia.

• Trauma Narratives
• Conversation Analysis - Nonverbal – Multimodality
• Picture-Based Counselling
• Discursis Visualization
• Public Health Argument from Ignorance
• Integrative Medicine for Colorectal Cancer
• Cancer Urban/Divide in Bangladesh
• Patient Experience
• Clinical Communication for Safety

• Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Bernadette Watson

• University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Janice Krieger

​Professor Bernadette Watson is a health psychologist and Director of the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the influence of identity and intergroup processes, both on patient-health professional communication, and on communication in multi-disciplinary and multicultural health teams. Professor Watson has been an executive member of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) and served as President from 2012 to 2014. She is a Fellow of both the IALSP and the Academy of the Humanities, Hong Kong.
Professor Janice Krieger is a health communication scholar and Director of the STEM Translational Communication Program at the University of Florida. Professor Krieger’s research focuses on translational communication in health and risk decision-making contexts. In particular, she is studying how message design influences health literacy and the cognitive processing of health risk messages. Professor Krieger was an executive member of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP).

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