Category: C

Approaches and techniques that rely upon local communities as units of action; attempt to combine outside assistance with organized, local self-determination efforts; and correspondingly seek to stimulate local initiatives and leadership as the primary instrument of change.    

The degree to which a communicator is a trustworthy, informed, and unbiased source of information.  

The pattern of communication networks that exists among members of a group. Typically, structures are centralized, having one coordinator, or decentralized, having many lines of interaction.  

Those factors that hinder successful communication and that relate primarily to the communication environment and the larger world in which communication takes place, communication microbarriers.  

Intended message reactions divided by the total number of transmitted messages.  

Disturbed patterns of expressing thoughts and feelings to others hypothesized to be more common in parents of schizophrenics.  

The mechanism that carries information from its source to its destination.  

The process by which messages are transferred through a channel to a receiver. The sending of data, messages, or other forms of information from one entity to another. The act of sharing information between two people (or groups of people) so that the information is successfully understood.  

To talk with other people and to exchange ideas and feelings.  

The time during which an infectious agent may be transmitted from one host to another host. In epidemiology and infectious diseases, the time during which an infectious agent is transmissible, directly or indirectly, from an infected person or animal to a susceptible person.