Health Care Communication Summary

It is vital to have appropriate communication between public health, other public services, and the population. Besides, this communication focus is to guarantee that all-important community goals are being addressed as they emerged. It is required that a two-way communication is the best approach (Radovic & Curcic, 2012). After all, in many occasions when health care providers and patients are interacting with each other, the communication would involve risk. Communicating risk factor or what increase a patient risk to a disease or condition is a challenging and sometimes emotional task. For example, according to Finset (2011), A study was conducted to understand what siblings think about their risk of getting a disease, and would they be more willing to get tested if one of the siblings have the disease, and the answer was no (para 1). Other like Garcia-Retamero and Galesic went further to explore what is more of a motivator to help people engage and retain educational information given to them. Would it be risk or life

(Finset, 2012). According to Finset (2011), while researching patient attitude towards risk when it is communicated to them, researchers were also monitoring the physician communication approach towards the patients. It was noted that a more patient-centered approach was adopted by the physician who has been involved in learning about the communication and risk; However, discussing a patient risk of getting a disease was a sensitive subject.

As noted in the research study, communicating risk is not an easy task; however, it must be done in other to raise awareness and for the wellbeing of the public. After all, a study has shown that there is an urgent need for acceptance of crises and emergency risk communication principles (Curcic, 2012). Nevertheless, as the campaign focusing on a deadly disease such as diabetes, the communication of risk will be one of the priorities. For example, if a patient comes to