Critiquing Essay
CRITIQUING A DVD CLIP OF AN INTERACTION BETWEEN A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE USERS.
This essay is criticising the interaction between a health professional and service users in the DVD clip titled “Someone to Watch over Me”. Firstly, I am going to introduce the concepts of health and communication, making reference to the nurse/ patient relationship and the importance of interpersonal communication in the delivery of health information. To act as guidelines for this essay I have chosen four topics to inform the content. These topics include: exploring the social determinants of health that are relevant to the main characters in the DVD clip using Dahlgren and Whitehead’s (1991) model and considering ways in which these impact on the health status of the clients and the health professional, identifying three health behaviours portrayed in the DVD clip and with reference to the Tran theoretical model explore ways in which these behaviours impact on the holistic health of the clients and the Health Professional, barriers to communication that were evident during the health professional – client interaction and how it might be addressed and types of communication employed during patient/ client interaction and any alternative forms that might have been used.
McKenna (2002 cited by Lloyd, Hancock and Campbell 2007) defines concepts as labels that give meaning, and enable us to categorise, interpret and structure a phenomenon, but they are not the phenomenon in itself. According to Lloyd, Hancock and Campbell (2007, p.4) the concepts of health and communication are more complex than they appear. This is evident when comparing their personal definitions with those of others. Health has been viewed by many as the absence of disease while other views are based on psychological factors. Kronenfeld (2002, p.21) also comments that the definition of health has been a long thorny problem for analysts of the health care system. It is thus believed to be the absence of
This essay is criticising the interaction between a health professional and service users in the DVD clip titled “Someone to Watch over Me”. Firstly, I am going to introduce the concepts of health and communication, making reference to the nurse/ patient relationship and the importance of interpersonal communication in the delivery of health information. To act as guidelines for this essay I have chosen four topics to inform the content. These topics include: exploring the social determinants of health that are relevant to the main characters in the DVD clip using Dahlgren and Whitehead’s (1991) model and considering ways in which these impact on the health status of the clients and the health professional, identifying three health behaviours portrayed in the DVD clip and with reference to the Tran theoretical model explore ways in which these behaviours impact on the holistic health of the clients and the Health Professional, barriers to communication that were evident during the health professional – client interaction and how it might be addressed and types of communication employed during patient/ client interaction and any alternative forms that might have been used.
McKenna (2002 cited by Lloyd, Hancock and Campbell 2007) defines concepts as labels that give meaning, and enable us to categorise, interpret and structure a phenomenon, but they are not the phenomenon in itself. According to Lloyd, Hancock and Campbell (2007, p.4) the concepts of health and communication are more complex than they appear. This is evident when comparing their personal definitions with those of others. Health has been viewed by many as the absence of disease while other views are based on psychological factors. Kronenfeld (2002, p.21) also comments that the definition of health has been a long thorny problem for analysts of the health care system. It is thus believed to be the absence of