Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Introduction: Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to health communication: Where do we draw the lines / Roxanne Parrott and Matthew W. Kreuter -- Building health communication theories in the 21st century / Austin S. Babrow and Marifran Mattson -- Narrative turns epic: Continuing developments in health narrative scholarship / Barbara F. Sharf, Lynn M. Harter, Jill Yamasaki, and Paul Haidet -- Delivery systems of formal care: How medical interaction shapes and reflects the physician-patient relationship / Debra L. Roter and Judith A. Hall -- Beyond primary care providers: A discussion of health communication roles and challenges for health care professionals and others / Margaret F. Clayton and Lee Ellington -- Telemedicine: Reviewing the past, looking toward the future / Pamela Whitten, David Cook, and Jennifer Cornacchione -- Health care terms: Communication and effectiveness / Kevin Real and Marshall Scott Poole -- Working well: Reconsidering health communication at work / Patricia Geist-Martin and Jennifer A. Scarduzio -- Relationship building and situational publics: Theoretical approaches guiding today's health public relations / Linda Aldoory and Lucinda Austin -- Theory and practice in risk communication: A review of the literature and visions for the future / Monique Mitchell Turner, Christine Skubisz, and Rajiv N. Rimal -- Health [Mis]information sources: Health information seeking / Ezequiel M. Galarce, Shoba Ramanadhan, and K. Viswanath -- Online health information: Conceptual challenges and theoretical opportunities -- Developing effective media campaigns for health promotion -- International health communication campaigns in developing countries -- Social marketing: Its meaning, use, and application for health communication -- Popular media and health: Images and effects -- Advertising in health communication: Promoting pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements to U.S. consumers -- Mediators and moderators of care and understanding: Explaining illness: Issues concerning the co-construction of explications -- Integrating health literacy in health communication -- Culture, communication, and health: A guiding framework -- Social support, social networks, and health -- Computer-mediated social support: Promises and pitfalls for individuals coping with health concerns -- Insights about health from family communication theories -- Everyday interpersonal communication and health -- [Un]intended outcomes of health communication: Patient-centered communication during collaborative decision making -- Provider-patient interaction and related outcomes -- Stress, burnout, and supportive communication: A review of research in health organizations -- Life span and end-of-life health communication -- Stigma, communication, and health -- Communication and health disparities -- Health communication and health information technology: Priority issues, policy implications, and research opportunities for healthy people 2020 -- Methods in health communication: Conversation analysis and health communication -- Social networks and health communication -- Qualitative methods: Bridging the gap between research and daily practice -- Community organizing research approaches -- Advancing health communication research: Issues and controversies in research design and data analysis -- Using new technologies to enhance health communication research methodology -- Overarching issues in health communication: Translating health communication research into practice: The influence of health communication scholarship on health policy, practice, and outcomes -- (Re)Viewing health communication and related interdisciplinary curricula: Towards a transdisciplinary perspective -- Ethics in communication for health promotion in clinical settings and campaigns: New challenges and enduring dilemmas.