ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates processes and contexts in three key areas: organizing and communication issues and processes in health care organizations and professions; work and organizations' effect on individuals' health; and collaboration, systems design, and interorganizational efforts at improving health. It shows how work and organizations affect individuals' health. Issues of assimilation and socialization into the organization influence how health-related work is accomplished. The chapter then examines how organizing processes are important for addressing transdisciplinary research processes to help improve health from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. Organizations put forward policies, create messages and images about social responsibility and health, implement conflict intervention strategies, and design workplaces to encourage healthy behavior. It then explores processes associated with organizing non-traditional settings where health communication processes occur by examining issues such as organizing NGOs, processes of collaboration, network development, leadership, and coalition building.
