E-health communities and online self-help groups applications and usage /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Smedberg, Åsa.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
• Subjects: Medical informatics.; Medicine > Electronic information resources.; Self-care, Health.; Conversation analysis methods; E-health communities; Trust; Coping; Health disorders; Lifestyle issues; Knowledge and learning; Usage; Evaluation methods; Measurement; Flexibility; Impact of E-health communities
• Online Access: Chapter PDFs via platform:

"This book will increase knowledge and understanding of applications and usage of e-health communities for self-help groups who struggle with health disorders, disabilities, lifestyle issues and other health concerns"--

Table of Contents:

• 1. Virtual worlds for children with medical conditions: experiences for promoting positive youth development / Marina U. Bers and Kathryn A. Cantrell
• 2. An E-health system for treatment of childhood obesity: the Etiobe platform / Rosa M. Baños ... [et al.]
• 3. Internet-based chronic disease self-management for youth / Jennifer Stinson and Navreet Gill
• 4. An E-health system for promoting wellbeing in the elderly: the Butler system / Cristina Botella ... [et al.]
• 5. Do virtual communities have an effect on the social network of cancer patients?: Empirical insights from Germany / Jan Marco Leimeister, Karin Janina Schweizer and Helmut Krcmar
• 6. A content analysis of an online support group for survivors of sexual violence / Jennifer Yeager
• 7. Blogging: a new tool for coping and accessing psycho-social support for people living with HIV? / Cecilia Strand
• 8. Can stored data answer all questions? : a study of questions on eating disorders / Jacob Palme
• 9. Dynamic stress management: self-help through holistic system design / Åsa Smedberg and Hélène Sandmark
• 10. Living a healthier life online: on blending professional and experiential knowledge in online self-help groups / Roar Stokken and Gjermund Eikli
• 11. The amazing impossibilities of technology: factors that inhibit participation in Skype based self-help groups / Stein Conradsen
• 12. E-health and digital inclusion / Lorna Gibson, David Sloan and Wendy Moncur
• 13. Online health communities and health literacy: applying a framework for understanding domains of health literacy / Erin Willis, Ye Wang and Shelly Rodgers
• 14. Identifying the essential design requirements for usable E-health communities in mobile devices / Ricardo Mendoza-González, Miguel Vargas Martin and Laura C. Rodríguez-Martínez
• 15. Australian patient organizations: using digital technologies to engage health citizen communities in health policy / Anni Dugdale
• 16. European E-health framework: towards more "patient-friendly" healthcare services? / Korinna Zoi Karamagkioli and Evika Karamagioli
• 17. Developing virtual communities to support drug policy knowledge exchange: the Canadian experience / Mowafa Househ ... [et al.].