Critical Communication, Health, and Development
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 821
Special Issue Editors
Interests: communication for development; innovation systems; gender and social inequality; rural development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
2. College of Development Communication, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna 4031, Philippines
Interests: health communication; science communication; digital media
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Communicating about health has been at the core of a range of interventions in communication for development, public health, media studies, and development studies for decades. We have seen changes in the types of interventions, the subjects, the scale, and the diversity of health challenges over time, and the need for innovation and critical reflection on how communication can best be harnessed to promote social change, positive health outcomes, and support community development objectives. This Special Issue seeks to present a diversity of critical reflections on the intersection of health and communication from a range of perspectives: across disciplines, geographies, social groups, and health challenges. We take a holistic and broad view of health: this can mean addressing specific health conditions, but also supporting conditions in which individuals and communities can make positive change to support individual and collective health through food security, mental health, and empowerment. The core objective of this Issue is to present critical thinking about the intersection of the idea of “health” with communication across its range of modalities. This Special Issue is open to contributions from academics and practitioners across these areas. Contributions can be articles, conceptual papers, or reviews that are related to this theme, welcoming new ideas, problematizing the ideas and theories of “health” and “communication”, and presenting critical contributions to generate discussion and the continued development of thinking in this realm.
Dr. Sarah Cardey
Dr. Aldo Gavril T. Lim
Dr. Ravindra Kumar Vemula
Guest Editors
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