Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011

• 09. - Communication, journalism and related programs
• 09.09 - Public relations, advertising and applied communication

09.0905 - Health communication

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on how people, individually and collectively, understand and accommodate to health and illness and the role of communication and media in shaping professional health care messages and public acceptance of these messages. These programs include courses in the development and use of health-related and care-related messages and media; the goals and strategies of health care promotion; relationships, roles, situations, and social structures in the context of health maintenance and promotion; and applications to disease prevention, health advocacy, and communications concerning treatments.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • health and health science communication
  • health communication

• Exclusion(s)

  • communications(09.0100)
  • community health and preventive medicine(51.2208)
  • community health representative(51.1504)
  • family and consumer science communications(19.0202)
  • public health (MPH, DPH)(51.2201)
  • public health education and promotion(51.2207)
  • technical communication(09.0908)