scholarly journals The Centrality of Language in Health Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (30) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Franca Daniele
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
General Public ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Health Communications ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
Medical Language

Medical communication and health communication are two close relatives in the field of communication, where medical communication is the mother and health communication is the offspring. Medical communication engages the delivery of scientific, medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological information and data to health professionals like doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc. The information includes updates on the latest discoveries provided by the international scientific community. Therefore, the source of this type of communication is represented by medical and scientific publications reporting data generated from basic science and clinical research. Health communications are targeted toward the general public, where the source is represented by health communicators and journalists. In health communications, information is the result of some kind of intra-language translation that allows transformation of the original medical language into a common language. Therefore, health communication derives from rewritings of a complex medical language that cannot always be modified and acquainted to serve the general public. The aim of the present work was to evaluate, in medical communications, the linguistic elements that represent the hard core for the general public. Thus, a qualitative evaluation was carried out on medical abstracts assessing medical terminology and compound phrases. The results of this investigation point out that these two linguistic traits of medical language are especially difficult for the general public due to their particular specialized nature.

Cultural Activity of the Archives of the Tuzla Canton during the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Omer Zulić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
To Come

The cultural activity of archives is crucial in terms of presentation of archival material as a cultural and historical heritage. In this way, archives animate the professional, scientific and general public to come to the archives and use the archival material for scientific research and other purposes. The most popular ways of presenting archival material are various archival exhibitions, documents, photographs, and other archival material. In addition, the promotion of professional and scientific publications also enriches the cultural activity of archives, and through them, archival activity and archival material are additionally affirmed. This paper aims to present the cultural activity of the Archives of Tuzla Canton in the year of the coronavirus virus pandemic, 2020, and to analyze, through comparative indicators from previous years, the extent to which cultural activity in the Archives of Tuzla Canton stagnated as a result of the pandemic. Also, the paper will present some new modalities of the work of the Archives of Tuzla Canton, in terms of presenting exhibitions to the general public in the year of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Formaldehyde and Total VOC (TVOC) Commercial Low-Cost Monitoring Devices: From an Evaluation in Controlled Conditions to a Use Case Application in a Real Building

Chemosensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie Goletto ◽  
Geneviève Mialon ◽  
Timothé Faivre ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Isabelle Lesieur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
General Public ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Volatile Organic

Formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are major indoor pollutants with multiple origins. Standard methods exist to measure them that require analytical expertise and provide, at best, an average value of their concentrations. There is a need to monitor them continuously during periods of several days, weeks, or even months. Recently, portable devices have become available. Two categories of portable devices are considered in this research paper: connected objects for the general public (price <500 €) and monitoring portable devices for professional users (price in the range >500 to 5000 €). The ISO method (ISO 16000-29) describes the standard for VOC detector qualification. It is quite complex and is not well adapted for a first qualitative evaluation of these low-cost devices. In this paper, we present an experimental methodology used to evaluate commercial devices that monitor formaldehyde and/or total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) under controlled conditions (23 °C, 50–65% relative humidity (RH)). We conclude that none of the connected objects dedicated to the general public can provide reliable data in the conditions tested, not even for a qualitative evaluation. For formaldehyde monitoring, we obtained some promising results with a portable device dedicated to professional users. In this paper, we illustrate, with a real test case in an office building, how this device was used for a comparative analysis.

scholarly journals Expert Consensus on the Integration and Innovation of Health Communication and Medical Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yi Mou ◽  
Feng Sun ◽  
Tao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Health Information ◽  
General Health ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Expert Consensus ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
The Difference

With a development of nearly half a century, the discipline of health communication has faced some major problems, which have largely caused the chaos of health information/misinformation dissemination today. As a response, medical communication draws nutrients from the fields of medicine, philosophy of science, communication and other disciplines, and gradually develops an innovative extension of the field of health communication. What is the research content of medical communication? And what is the difference between medical communication and general health communication? This paper attempts to answer those questions. More importantly, the experts from medical and communication fields proposed the Expert Consensus on the Integration and Innovation of Health Communication and Medical Communication, highlighting the slogan of “Reducing the burden of medical professionals with Communication”, which symbolized that both sides have reached a consensus on the integration and innovation of these two fields.

scholarly journals Medical Communication and SARS-CoV-2: Novel Approaches to Global Health Crises Communication as Called for by the W.H.O.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan de Rothewelle
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
Novel Approaches

This analysis of medical comics has been conducted to respond to the WHO’s call for health communication research during global health crises. This analysis uses a lens composed of the theories of semiotics, communication, and biomedical ethics, to assess the communicative value of SARS-CoV-2 comics as a form of health communication. The findings of this analysis show that medical comics could fulfil, in part, the WHO’s call for more research on health communication during pandemics, suggesting that comics could be ethically and effectively used to disseminate information. The findings recommend a broader scope of the research of comics in medicine and call for standardized guidelines for their use.

Patient Empowerment by Increasing the Understanding of Medical Language for Lay Users

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (05) ◽  
pp. 454-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Stoicu-Tivadar ◽  
V. Topac
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Time Performance ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Medical Language

SummaryBackground: Patient empowerment is important in order to increase the quality of medical care and the life quality of the patients. An important obstacle for empowering patients is the language barrier the lay patient encounter when accessing medical information.Objectives: To design and develop a service that will help increase the understanding of medical language for lay persons.Methods: The service identifies and explains medical terminology from a given text by annotating the terms in the original text with the definition. It is based on an original terminology interpretation engine that uses a fuzzy matching dictionary. The service was implemented in two projects: a) into the server of a tele-care system (TELEASIS) with the purpose of adapting medical text assigned by medical personnel for the assisted patients. b) Into a dedicated web site that can adapt the medical language from raw text or from existing web pages.Result: The output of the service was evaluated by a group of persons, and the results indicate that such a system can increase the understanding of medical texts. Several design decisions were driven from the evaluation, and are being considered for future development. Other tests measuring accuracy and time performance for the fuzzy terminology recognition have been performed. Test results revealed good performance for accuracy and excellent results regarding time performance.Conclusion: The current version of the service increases the accessibility of medical language by explaining terminology with a good accuracy, while allowing the user to easily identify errors, in order to reduce the risk of incorrect terminology recognition.

Latin as a tool for social differentiation and epistemic asymmetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-124
Author(s):  
Franca Orletti
Keyword(s):  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Medical Language ◽  
Patient Interactions ◽  
Clinical Records ◽  
Epistemic Asymmetry ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Discursive Patterns

Abstract The paper aims to present the outcome of a research on the persistence of Latin in Medical Language. The analysis has been carried out on written and spoken data: clinical records; doctor-patient interactions; prescriptions; package information leaflets. The study shows that in medical communication Latin is used as a tool for social and epistemic discrimination, to increase the knowledge gap among professionals and lay people. A different way to reaffirm the voice of medicine against the voice of life. Our project is inserted in the series of studies dedicated to languages for specific purposes understood not only as specific vocabularies but mostly as “discursive patterns” that express precise and distinctive professional visions.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC AND INFORMATIVE FEATURES OF STUDYING THE THEME “PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION A PHYSICIAN AND A PATIENT WITH SYMPTOMS DISEASES OF DIGESTIVE SYSTEM’S ORGANS” OF DISCIPLINE “PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL COMMUNICATION OF A DOCTOR WITH A PATIENT IN UKRAINIAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
I. Ya. Zalipska ◽  
A. S. Sverstiuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Medical Communication ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Stomach Pain

The article presents educational, informative and methodical materials necessary for studying the theme “Professional communication a physician and a patient with symptoms diseases of the digestive system’s organs” in classes on the discipline “Professional medical communication of a doctor with a patient in Ukrainian language”. The complex of tasks is aimed at the development of students’ communicative skills and abilities: to study the vocabulary to denote the organs of the digestive system, gastrointestinal diseases; be able to build monologue and dialogic expressions that describe the causes and symptoms of the digestive system’s diseases, using learned lexical units and phrases; to develop skills of collecting the anamnesis of gastroenterological diseases; memorize phrases and sentences for first aid in food poisoning, in emergencies during stomach pain; to create modern informative and expert systems for developing lesson’s materials. The proposed system of tasks will help to master the skills and abilities to communicate orally and in writing in accordance with the goals and social norms of speech behavior in typical spheres and situations. Taking into account different methods and forms of work, the tasks with which it was possible to ensure the active participation of each student in the class, to stimulate interest and desire to study medical terminology in accordance with the topic of the class are singled out. It was suggested a variety of test and creative tasks to check the knowledge of the student’s studied topic. The materials described in the article are intended for foreign students of medical specialties who speak the language at a sufficient level. Tasks selected on the basis of four main types of speech activity (listening, speaking, reading, writing) will help foreign students not only to expand their vocabulary, but also to achieve social interaction in a foreign language professional sphere.

scholarly journals Development Potential of the Journal «Voprosy statistiki»

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena S. Zavarina
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Electronic Format ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Global Science

This article covers some development directions for the professional statistical journal that is the journal «Voprosy statistiki». There are two fundamental principles of editorial policy of the journal: first, the adherence to best traditions of the established editorial school; second, implementing reasonably required modernizations that is essential for the development of the journal. The author comments on the positive trends in updating the remit of the journal, its information density; improving the quality of scientific publications and their compliance with contemporary tasks facing the state statistics system. The paper argues that the journal should enhance its function as an instrument of feedback for the editors and the readers, and the institute of official statistics and the general public. In this regard, there is a necessity to revise the ways to increase the journal’s audience and the pool of potential authors who determine the content of the journal as well as its distribution forms - printed and electronic format. The author addresses further steps towards improving the competitiveness of the journal «Voprosy statistiki», its promotion in the global science and information space of professional statistical publications.

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