Com2603 Assignment 01

Subject Code: COM2603 Student Number: 5036996 Assignment Number: 03

Module: Intercultural, development and health communication Assignment unique number: 187369 Semester: 02

Declaration

I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own and personal work, except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I read and understood tutorial letter CMNALLE/301 regarding technical and presentation requirements, referencing techniques and plagiarism. Name: Mduduzi Eli Skhosana Student Number: 50369962 Signature: Date: _______________________________________ _______________________________________

Witness Name: _______________________________________ Signature: _______________________________________

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Subject Code: COM2603 Student Number: 5036996 Assignment Number: 03

Module: Intercultural, development and health communication Assignment unique number: 187369 Semester: 02

Table of Contents

Declaration ………………………………………………………. 1 Table of contents ………………………………………………. 2 Question 1:

Introduction …………………..…………………………………………… 3

Question 2:

Environmental factors …………………………………………………… 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Formal and informal health care setting ………………..…….……. Degree of privacy ……………..…………………………………….. Constraint ……………………..……………………………………… Sounds or noise ……………………………………………………... Physical and psychological distance ……..……………………... 3 3 3 3 4 4

Question 3:

Explain how medical professionals can aim to limit noise at hospitals. Provide five (5) ways in which noise can be limited at the hospital Gugu is admitted to with examples………………………………………. 4-5

Question 4:

How can the public hospital Gugu is admitted to aim to combat the problem of psychological and physical distance which Gugu is experiencing? ……………………………….…………... 5

Question 5:

5.1 In your opinion, does this public hospital have a neutral role to Creating better communication between medical professionals and patients? Motivate your answer …………………..………….. How...