With the popularity of the Internet, more and more people are turning to their computers for health information, advice, support and services. With its information based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution. Representing a wide range of expertise, the contributors provide an extensive variety of examples from the micro to the macro, including information about HMO web sites, Internet pharmacies, and web-enabled hospitals, to vividly illustrate their findings and conclusions.
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Ronald E. Rice (Ph.D. & M.A., Stanford University; B.A., Columbia University) is both the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC, Santa Barbara. He has been elected divisional officer in the International Communication Association and the Academy of Management, elected President and Fellow of the ICA, awarded a Fulbright Award to Finland, appointed as Wee Kim Wee Professor and then University Professor of the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal. He has co-authored or co-edited ten books, including The New Media: Communication, Research and Technology (1984), and The Internet and Health Communication (2001), both also with SAGE. He is widely published in communication science, public communication campaigns, computer-mediated communication systems, methodology, organizational and management theory, information systems, information science and bibliometrics, and social networks.
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Health issues, especially research on health communication and health-related public communication campaigns, are becoming increasingly important for the public agenda. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telecomputing technology, empathy online, empathic messages, national health information infrastructure, access health care information, online health information, synergy model, health information sources, health information sites, personal health information, public communication campaigns, telemedicine services, telemedicine systems, patient delay, hostile messages, hostile communication, heart attack symptoms, consumer health information, medical computing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World Wide Web, United States, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce, Kaiser Permanente, Cyber Dialogue, New Brunswick, American Medical Informatics Association, Health Summit Working Group, Idea Group Publishing, Mayo Clinic, National Committee, National Heart, Retrieved February, Science Panel, Virtual Endocrinologist, Free Press, Newbury Park, Glaxo Wellcome, Harris Interactive, National Institutes of Health, San Francisco New!
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telecomputing technology, empathy online, empathic messages, national health information infrastructure, access health care information, online health information, synergy model, health information sources, health information sites, personal health information, public communication campaigns, telemedicine services, telemedicine systems, patient delay, hostile messages, hostile communication, heart attack symptoms, consumer health information, medical computing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World Wide Web, United States, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce, Kaiser Permanente, Cyber Dialogue, New Brunswick, American Medical Informatics Association, Health Summit Working Group, Idea Group Publishing, Mayo Clinic, National Committee, National Heart, Retrieved February, Science Panel, Virtual Endocrinologist, Free Press, Newbury Park, Glaxo Wellcome, Harris Interactive, National Institutes of Health, San Francisco New!
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- The Information Infrastructure by Harvard Business School Press on page 41, page 382, and page 414
- From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber on page 231, and page 285
- Medicine and the Internet by Bruce McKenzie in Back Matter
- Congress and National Energy Policy by James Everett Katz in Back Matter
- A Guide to Usability: Human Factors in Computing by Jenny Preece in Back Matter
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- Virtuelle Communities für Patienten: Bedarfsgerechte Entwicklung, Einführung und Betrieb (Informationsmanagement und Computer Aided Team) (German Edition) by Jan Marco Leimeister on page 325, and page 329
- Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks by Starr Roxanne Hiltz in Front Matter
- Communities and Technologies 2005: Proceedings of the Second Communities and Technologies Conference, Milano 2005 by Peter van den Besselaar on page 147
- The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour by Linda Cameron on page 65
- Innovation and Change in the Human Services by Nicholas D. Richie in Back Matter
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