Developing the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) to address current challenges of health communication
Abstract
In 2017, EACH celebrated its change of name from European Association for Communication in Healthcare to EACH: International Association for Communication in Healthcare. This paper aims to present the developments and achievements of EACH over the past five years with a focus on its mission in promoting and advancing the field of communication in healthcare. Specifically, the paper focuses on how EACH, first, promotes research in the field of health communication, second, provides support, resources and sharing for healthcare communication teachers and, third, aims at influencing policy through dissemination of evidence. This paper also explores future challenges and directions for EACH to further strengthen its impact by designing activities in knowledge transfer and knowledge dissemination, engaging with patients and truly benefitting from their expertise, fostering active participation and networking among its members, targeting interventions to the needs of different countries around the world and refining knowledge-sharing and cooperation both within the membership of EACH and outside the association to as wide an audience as possible. Scholars, educators and practitioners active in the field of healthcare communication are invited to comment on this paper and to actively contribute towards the goals of EACH.
Citation
Rubinelli , S , Silverman , J , Aelbrecht , K , Deveugele , M , Finset , A , Humphris , G , Martin , P , Rosenbaum , M , van Dulmen , S & van Weel-Baumgarten , E 2019 , ' Developing the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) to address current challenges of health communication ' , Patient Education and Counseling , vol. 102 , no. 6 , pp. 1217-1221 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.01.004
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Patient Education and Counseling
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
0738-3991Type
Journal article
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© 2019, American Academy on Communication in Healthcare/European Association for Communication in Healthcare. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.01.004
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