Good communication is always important, especially when dealing with life and death matters such as health. In line with this, Dr Godfrey Steele, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, has released a new book for medical students and professionals to understand and apply communication skills.
Titled Health Communication: Principles and Practices, the book was launched on September 19 at the Alma Jordan Library (AJL) on the St Augustine Campus.
"Health Communication: Principles and Practices provides medical students and other allied health professionals and health practitioners with a framework for understanding and applying communication skills in the context of medical education and health education in health settings," a synopsis by publishers UWI Press states.
The book launch at the Audio-visual Room at the AJL was attended by members of the medical fraternity, Dr Steele's fellow scholars and colleagues at the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communications Studies, senior campus library personnel and other interested attendees. Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh also spoke at the event.
Health Communication: Principles and Practices is a companion to Dr Steele's Health Communication in the Caribbean and Beyond: A Reader, published in 2011. His latest work "reviews the literature from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the curriculum of medical communication skills outside of the traditional metropolitan areas," a statement on the book says.
For more information on Health Communication: Principles and Practices as well as purchasing, please visit the UWI Press website at www.uwipress.com. You can go to the book's page at https://www.uwipress. com/9789766407230/health-communication/
