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Series EditorMarshall Scott Poole (University of Illinois, Champaign‐Urbana)

Editorial BoardJames Aune (Texas A&M University); Robert T. Craig (University of Colorado at Boulder); Leah Lievrouw (University of California Los Angeles); Alan Rubin (Kent State University, Emeritus); David Seibold (University of California Santa Barbara)

The Foundations of Communication Theory series publishes innovative textbooks that summarize and integrate theory and research for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses. In addition to offering state‐of‐the‐art overviews in a broad array of subfields, authors are encouraged to make original contributions to advance the conversation within the discipline. Written by senior scholars and theorists, these books will provide unique insight and new perspectives on the core sub‐disciplinary fields in communication scholarship and teaching today.

PublishedHealth Communication Theory by Teresa L. Thompson and Peter J. Schulz Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication, Second Edition by Laurie K. Lewis Theorizing Crisis Communication, by Timothy L. Sellnow, Matthew W. Seeger

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EDITED BY

Teresa L. Thompson

Peter J. Schulz

This edition first published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Thompson, Teresa L., editor. | Schulz, Peter J., 1958‐ editor.

Title: Health communication theory / edited by Teresa L. Thompson, University of Dayton, Professor Emerita Dayton, USA, University of Kansas, Edwards Campus Overland Park, USA, Peter J. Schulz, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley/Blackwell, 2021. | Series: Foundations of communication theory series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020030502 (print) | LCCN 2020030503 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119574439 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119574460 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119574507 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Communication in medicine.

Classification: LCC R118 .H4357 2021 (print) | LCC R118 (ebook) | DDC 610.1/4–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030502LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030503

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To Steve and Connor….

Love, Teri/Mimi

To Magda and my sons Thomas E., Lukas P. and Markus J.

In gratitude, Peter

With warm thanks to Scott Poole

TT and PS

Salah H. Al‐Ghaithi, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

Austin S. Babrow, School of Communication, Ohio University

Maria Brann, Department of Communication, IUPUI

Jennifer J. Bute, Department of Communication, IUPUI

Andrea Martinez Gonzalez, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University

Evelyn Y. Ho, Department of Communication, University of San Francisco

Youjin Jang, Department of Communication, Michigan State University

Shaohai Jiang, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore

Hannah Jones, Department of Communication, Rutgers University

Maureen Keeley, Department of Communication Studies, Texas State University