Health Communication Research Approach on Tribal Health out comes: A Systematic Review of Tribal Studies

Abstract

The new world again realised the importance of communication during COVID-19 due to high restrictions on social interactions and physical contact. Historically communication helped humans to socialise with fellow humans. Nowadays the field of communication got many branches namely, Development communication, Health communication, Political communication, Risk Communication etc… During the time of COVID-19, the significance of health communication increased drastically because all the efforts to prevent the spread of the pandemic made possible through effective use of the different communication channels. The concept of health communication is any communication efforts which help to the betterment of the current health status of a community that can be considered health communication. So basically health communication helps a community to achieve better health status. Hence our mainstream society systematically uses the concept for better health status. Further academic scholars started to study how the tribal population uses or explores the health communication area to better their health status. Therefore the present paper indented to study how health communication research is conducted among the tribal population. The present research paper has two objectives (1) To examine the role of communication in the health of the tribal population. (2)To explore the health communication patterns of tribes. Hence, this study performed a systematic literature review using specific online databases. The online search was conducted using precise keywords.