Consumer Health Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone (Chapman & Hall/CRC Healthcare Informatics Series) - Hardcover

Smith, Catherine Arnott; Keselman, Alla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138337455 ISBN 13: 9781138337459

Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2020

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to consumer health informatics, and focuses on designing, developing, and marketing tools for supporting the public in health information gathering, tracking, communication, and behavioral management. The book will have three sections: 1) Contexts, 2) Tasks and Tools, and 3) Issues.

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Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, is a Professor in the Information School and a Discovery Fellow, Virtual Environments Group, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a former medical librarian who moved into biomedical informatics for her PhD through the Center (now Department) of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh (2002), where she was a National Library of Medicine medical informatics predoctoral trainee. Her research centers on consumer interactions with clinical information systems, mediated through text, in settings that range from patient portals to public libraries to disabilities support centers.

Alla Keselman, PhD, is a Senior Social Science Analyst in the Office of Engagement and Training, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. She holds a PhD in human cognition and learning and an MA in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. Dr. Keselman coordinates NLM efforts in evaluating the impact of its health information outreach and community engagement programs. Her research interests include lay understanding of complex health concepts, scientific literacy, and the provision of health information outside clinical settings. She has done work on bringing health and environment-related topics to the science classroom and conducted research into the role of libraries in providing health information to the public.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138337455
• ISBN 13: 9781138337459
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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