Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees

This book analyzes important international cases of immigrant and refugee health from diverse communication perspectives, providing theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing future health communication campaigns and interventions for global health promotion. Internationally renowned scholars elucidate the reality of health communication situations that immigrants and refugees experience in host countries around the globe and examine how national and global health risk situations, including the COVID-19 pandemic, affect immigrant and refugee health during difficult health circumstances. Offering effective health communication strategies for promoting immigrant and refugee health, the book also provides lessons learned from past and present health communication campaigns, responses of diverse communities, and governmental policies. This book with many case studies from major host countries on different continents, this book will be of interest to anyone researching or studying in the areas of health communication, public health, international relations, public administration, nursing, and social work.

Do Kyun David Kim is Richard D'Aquin-/BORSF Endowed Professor of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gary L. Kreps is a Distinguished Professor of Communication at George Mason University.

1. Health Communication in Mixed Status Latino Immigrant Families in the United States 2. Cultural Factors Influencing Health Literacy, Health Care Access, and Health Behaviors Among Korean-Americans 3. Addressing the Health Communication Challenges facing Chinese American Immigrants 4. Survival Against Odds: Undocumented Immigrants and Communication about Policies and Access to Health Care in the United States 5. Language Barriers as a Social Phenomenon: Distinctive Impacts on Health Communication in Japan and the United States 6. Mapping Young Female Refugees' Personal Communication System for Health Promotion: A Pilot Project in the United States 7. Communicating COVID-19 Health and Safety Measures to Vulnerable Communities: The Case of Refugees and Migrants in Austria and Germany 8. Segregation within Welfare Societies- Communication Barriers to Migrants' Healthcare in Scandinavia 9. Diffusion of Information and Influence for Promoting Health among Joseon-Jok Workers in South Korea 10. Immigration, Social Support, and Well-Being: A Case Study of Immigrants in Hong Kong 11. Covid-19 Pandemic Experienced by Migrant Workers in Densely Populated Singapore: Case Perspectives for Health Communication 12. Health Communication Barriers Faced by Rohingya Refugees During COVID-19 13. Communicative Health Promotion for Refugee Children in Uganda 14. South-South Migration and the Health Communication Concerns Confronting Venezuelan Refugees in Peru 15. Ecological Message Design Strategies Based on Narrative Evidence from Immigrants and Refugees in Diverse Socio-Cultural Contexts 16. Health Campaigns and Message Design for Immigrant Populations

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