User:Cdh036/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Health communication

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose healthcare communication because that is the field that I currently work in. I find the communication between healthcare provider and patient intriguing. Specifically this includes the creation of content used to help bridge that gap between the two. Effective healthcare communication across cultures is essential to better quality of life outcomes.

Evaluate the article
Wikipedia Article Evaluation: Health Communication

Content


 * I noticed a few distractions like mentions of alcohol and tobacco marketing. It strayed away from the message and had odd placement in the article.
 * Another distraction was in the design of the article, specifically, where the author chose to place information throughout. An example of that was choosing to place information about health communication and social platforms under overview. That may have been better represented under the mass media category.
 * While reading I thought the author would touch on HIPAA as that is an essential part of healthcare communication but it was never mentioned.
 * The article provided in depth information about diversity and communicating across cultures but did not touch on the different languages that may be present in the same geographical location. That’s imperative especially in the case of emergency health concerns confined to a regional area.
 * The only other improvement suggestion would be being mindful of redundancies. I noticed several times the same information was repeated, even if it was to make a different point.

Tones


 * The tone of this article read more like taking a course on health communication rather than getting to know what health communication is.
 * Challenges in health communication could have been more in depth and made the article read more neutral.
 * Literacy-communication gap was well represented and presented non-bias.
 * The development and improvement of health communication has been extensive over the years. The author represented this well but may have been able to narrow down the timeline to the most pivotal events in the field.

Sources


 * There are issues with sources such as links to the websites not working. I found at least three.
 * It looks like the information did come from scholarly projects and does not seem to be biased in nature.
 * I did find that the facts were referenced appropriately.

Talk Page


 * Start Class rated Article
 * Page was created as an educational wikiproject. It falls under the scope of Wikiproject Medicine and Wikiproject Media.
 * Not much information provided from discussions like I have seen for other articles.