Preface
Introduction
Godfrey A. Steele
PART 1 . MEDICAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS EDUCATION
Teaching Medical Communication Skills at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
Godfrey A. Steele
Gender Differentials on Breaking Bad News: Implications for Communication Skills Training in Medical School
Jerome De Lisle, Surujpal Teelucksingh, Terence Seemungal, Kameel Mungrue and Stella Williams
The Need to Teach Non-verbal Skills with Multicultural Sensitivity
Michelle Harricharan, Stella Williams and Valerie Youssef
Health Communication Skills: Promoting Better Practice through Education
Paula Nunes
PART 2. PATIENT CARE AND COUNSELLING
Communication and Adherence in the Caribbean: Teaching Skills for Concordant Management of Care
Peter Weller and Jacqueline D. Simmonds-Goulbourne
Counselling, Culture and Communication for Change
Peter Weller and Sharon Williams-Brown
Provider-Patient Communication: Clinic and Community Projects in Belize
Kandi L. Walker and Joy L. Hart
PART 3. INFORMATION USE AND BEHAVIOUR
Web-Based Strategies for HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Anglophone Caribbean
Shaheed Nick Mohammed and Avinash Thombre
“There’s No Easy Way to Say This . . . ”: STD Partner-Notification Via an E-Card
Sherry Nay Simkins
Lessons Learned from Two HIV Education Activities and Interventions in Trinidad and Tobago
Godfrey A. Steele
PART 4. CAMPAIGNS AND PRACTICES
Interpersonal and Mass-Mediated Communication in an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in Trinidad and Tobago
Godfrey A. Steele
Health Education and Health Communication: Projects in Two Rural Villages in Belize
Joy L. Hart and Kandi L. Walker
Religiosity and HIV/AIDS Stigma in Jamaica
Nancy Muturi, Sam Mwangi, Maxine Ruddock-Small and Ron Page
Public Health Education in Barbados
Henry S. Fraser
Contributors