eHealth Applications

Promising Strategies for Behavior Change
Herausgeber: Noar, Seth M.; Harrington, Nancy Grant

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Developed from a pre-conference at the 2010 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication.

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This volume delves into the use of interactive communication applications to promote health behavior change. Providing a timely and comprehensive review of current tools for health communication, eHealth Applications is a must-read for scholars, students and researchers in health communication, public health, and health education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780415888172
• ISBN-10: 0415888174
• Artikelnr.: 34744151

Autorenporträt

Dr. Seth M. Noar is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research addresses health behavior theories and message design, mass media campaigns, eHealth applications, and methodological topics, including meta-analysis and evaluation. Dr. Nancy Grant Harrington is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on persuasive message design in a health behavior change context, particularly as it relates to risk behavior prevention/health promotion and interactive health communication using computer technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Historical and Conceptual Foundations
1. eHealth applications: An Introduction and Overview
2. The Emergence of eHealth Applications
3. Interactivity: Conceptualizations, Effects, and Implications
eHealth Applications
4. Internet-Based Interventions For Health Behavior Change
5. Virtual Interactive Interventions For Reducing Risky Sex: Adaptations,
Integrations, Innovations
6. Avatars For Health Behavior Change
7. Digital Games For Health Behavior Change: Research, Design, And Future
Directions
8. Computer-Tailored Interventions For Improving Health Behaviors
9. Mobile Phones For Health Communication To Promote Behavior Change
10. Text Messaging Interventions For Chronic Disease Management And Health
Promotion
11. Interactive Voice Response Technology For Chronic Disease Management
Practice Implications and Future Directions
12. Using Social Media To Enhance Health Communication Campaigns
13. Dissemination And Implementation Of ehealth Interventions
14. Health Information Technology Policy Issues: Relevance And Implications
For ehealth Applications
15. Building An Evidence Base For ehealth Applications: Research Questions
And Practice Implications