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Abstract
Godfrey A. Steele, ed., Health Communication in the and Beyond: A Reader Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2011, 256 pp.REVIEWED BY LIVINGSTON A. WHITETWENTY-TWO AUTHORS CONTRIBUTED FOURTEEN articles presented in four parts in this publication on health communication. Part one focuses on medical communication skills education; part two deals with patient care and counselling; part three concentrates on health information use and behaviour; while part four documents health campaigns and practices. The articles range from primary research using quantitative and qualitative methodologies to documentation of experiences and lessons from the field.The first part of the book introduces research regarding the development of the medical communication skills programme at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, introduced in 1995. While all the articles relate to this programme based in Trinidad and Tobago, the student subjects involved in the research come from various parts of the Caribbean region as well as from various locations around the world - including the USA, the UK, Canada, Africa and India. The issues covered in this first part include: the evaluation of the programme; the differences between males and females communicating bad news in standardised patient examinations; cultural differences in non-verbal behaviour in medical situations (such as doctor-patient interviews) among individual Caribbean territories; and methods used in teaching communication skills to medical students. These articles cumulatively provide the reader with information on experiences in establishing communication skills training in a medical sciences programme, and relevant strategies which can enhance the provision of communication education to medical students.Part two of the book is about patient care and counselling. Like part one, the first article in this section looks at the teaching of communication skills, but this time at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI 's Mona campus in Jamaica. Specifically, the article focuses on communication in the context of compliance and effective adherence to medical protocols. The next article is also based on the experience of UWI Mona - in particular the counselling service - and looks at cultural factors which influence the therapeutic communication process and individuals' willingness to engage in counselling and therapy. The last article in this section focuses on provider-patient communication at clinics established as part of community projects in a small rural village, Gales Point, in Belize. These chapters underscore the importance of interpersonal communication skills and competencies in the areas of compliance with medical protocols, counselling services and community-based clinic projects.Part three comprises three articles on information use and behaviour. The first article presents the findings of a content analysis, supported by interviews, to describe the strategic use of the Internet by Caribbean health communicators in HIV and AIDS prevention. The next article examines the potential of the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) partner-notification online service - found at www.InSPOT.org and based in the USA - as a communication tool for assisting individuals in disclosing their STI status to their sexual partners. The last article in this section provides lessons learned from a survey evaluating two HIV education activities implemented in 2005 in Trinidad and Tobago by their National AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC). This part of the book documents the use of both traditional media - print, radio and television - as well as online media or web-based strategies in health communication interventions in the Caribbean, and reminds us of the importance of integrating a mix of media channels when engaging audiences.The last part of the book captures experiences on health campaigns and practices from Trinidad, Belize, Jamaica and Barbados. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".