School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Memphis, TN.
Department of Communication Disorders, School of Allied Health Professions, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2024 Sep 12;67(9):3022-3039. doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00491. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
Health care is advancing toward a collaborative and integrative approach that promotes general health and wellness while addressing health inequities through the consideration of broader social and economic factors that influence the well-being of the entire population. Recently, there has been growing evidence of public health concept applications in fields related to speech, language, and hearing. However, there is an outstanding need to explicitly define the intersection of public health, including prevention and health promotion, and the discipline of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) across the areas of education, clinical practice, research, and policy. The authors propose a definition for this intersection using the new term .
This tutorial provides guidance on how to conceptualize communication public health and invites refinement and expansion of the intersection between public health and CSD. Because readers are experts in CSD, this tutorial aims to supplement existing knowledge with information on public health to achieve three main objectives: (a) increase knowledge of the application of public health concepts among speech, language, hearing, and related professionals (SLHP+); (b) introduce the concept of communication public health; and (c) discuss the relevance of communication public health across domains within CSD. The authors utilize the socioecological model to provide examples of applications.
The concept of communication public health is proposed as the collaborative area of CSD and public health, which encompasses prevention and promotion of equity in communication health through individual-, community-, and population-level efforts. The goals of communication public health are achieved through applications of public health principles in CSD education, clinical practice, research, and policy.
Communication public health defines an area of collaboration between public health and CSD in which SLHP+ can apply public health concepts to both advance communication health and address health disparities.
医疗保健正在朝着协作和综合的方向发展，通过考虑影响整个人口福祉的更广泛的社会和经济因素，促进整体健康和健康，同时解决健康不平等问题。最近，越来越多的证据表明，公共卫生概念在与言语、语言和听力相关的领域得到了应用。然而，明确界定公共卫生（包括预防和健康促进）和沟通科学与障碍（CSD）学科之间的交叉领域，特别是在教育、临床实践、研究和政策领域，仍然是当务之急。作者使用新术语 来定义这一交叉点。
本教程提供了如何概念化沟通公共卫生的指导，并邀请对公共卫生和 CSD 之间的交叉点进行细化和扩展。由于读者是 CSD 方面的专家，本教程旨在用公共卫生方面的信息来补充现有知识，以实现三个主要目标：（a）增加言语、语言、听力和相关专业人员（SLHP+）对公共卫生概念应用的了解；（b）介绍沟通公共卫生的概念；（c）讨论沟通公共卫生在 CSD 各个领域的相关性。作者利用社会生态模型提供了应用实例。
提出沟通公共卫生的概念是 CSD 和公共卫生的协作领域，通过个人、社区和人群层面的努力，涵盖沟通健康的预防和促进公平。沟通公共卫生的目标是通过在 CSD 教育、临床实践、研究和政策中应用公共卫生原则来实现的。
沟通公共卫生定义了公共卫生和 CSD 之间的合作领域，在这个领域中，SLHP+可以应用公共卫生概念，既促进沟通健康，又解决健康差距问题。
