DISSECTING INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION ROADBLOCKS : AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF BANGLADESH

ISBN-13: 9783838327716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 156 str.

Raihan Jamil

Opis

This thesis explores the institutional communication roadblocks that may exist in the public health care system of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The public health care system of Bangladesh is maintained and operated solely by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, under the Government of Bangladesh. The thesis explores the application of certain organization-related metaphors originally coined by sociologist Gareth Morgan that may function in the Bangladeshi public hospitals. The methodology used in this research is largely qualitative in nature. An open ended survey questionnaire has been designed to gather data for analysis by surveying physicians from the Bangladeshi public hospitals. The data analysis has gone through three phases of phenomenology description, reduction, and interpretation. The phenomenological analysis of the data shows four unique themes that help shed light on the communication problems of the public health care system of Bangladesh.

O autorze

Raihan Jamil is a Ph.D. student in Health Communication at Purdue University, Indiana. He did his BSC and MA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania. His BSC was in Economics (minor in Math & Computer Science) and his MA was in International & Intercultural Communication. Raihan comes from Bangladesh.