PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS PUBLIC ENEMY #1: COMMUNICATION DYSFUNCTION ABSTRACT: THE CASE FOR TARGETING BEHAVIORAL COMMUNICATION DYSFUNCTION AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISI

Human Communication as a subject of study and skill development, must be deliberately and actively infused into the academic, social (familial, community) and professional settings dependent on the effective exchange of messages. The Public Health crisis is directly related to individuals’ inability, unawareness, and/or refusal to proactively advocate for a healthy mind and body by using the #1 agent of proactive health care – communication. There is a direct connection between communication and life experiences. Their bond is at the core of all decision making and life solvency issues for each individual as well as the collective. We are all making decisions based on the perception we hold about life. Those decisions are made based in a mindset that has been captured by certain patterns of thinking, speaking and resultant actions. Verbal and Nonverbal language determine behavioral outcomes. Regardless of minimalist views on the viability of linguistic determinism, we cannot separate the way an individual verbally and nonverbally expresses themselves from the way the individual responds to life circumstances. This is how culture is perpetuated and kept from extinction – personally and collectively. “As you think, so you are.” Wisdom Language Shaping is the mechanism used to create Behavioral Communication patt