Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: Exploring health communication and case study pedagogy -- No time to grieve: losing my life's love and regaining my own strength -- Problematic interactions between physicians and deaf patients -- Meaning in context: the real work of medical interpreters -- When love is not enough: communication challenges and social support experienced when placing a spouse with dementia in a residential care facility -- Friendship when facing infertility: challenges and dilemmas of social support -- Cultural issues and coping with critical illness of a female Malay cancer survivor in Singapore -- When obesity is a crime: family communication and individual member health -- Medical decisions in older age: managing complexities, uncertainties and social relationships -- To use or not to use , that is the question: applying the theory of planned behavior to understand diabetics' intentions to engage in insulin pump therapy -- Caring for yourself is caring for your child: helping parents of children with eating disorders seek health care for themselves -- Implementing a secondhand smoke intervention in two Texas Colonais: Sabemos: Por Respecto, No Se Fuma Aqui (We know: out of respect, do not smoke here) -- Engaging motorcycle safety in a university community: toward a health campaign pedagogy model for community advocacy -- Health communication in the classroom and community: designing theory-driven health messages using effective teaching techniques -- Using formative research to inform health campaign design: promoting organ donation -- Bridging the health and digital divide in a low-income Latino/a immigrant community: using community-based participatory research to advance communities' well-being -- Facilitating diabetes management among native Americans: the potential of online social support -- The Breast Cancer and environment research centers: a transdisciplinary model -- The HPV mandatory vaccination controversy: creating a frame of perspective for public health initiatives -- Ensuring individuals have the opportunity to live to their full potential: reframing injury and violence prevention and response --