eHealth Applications

<p><em>eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change</em> provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of these technology-based interventions for public health promotion and explores the rapid growth of an innovative interdisciplinary field. </p><p>The chapters in this work discuss key eHealth applications by presenting research examining a variety of technology-based applications. Authors Seth M. Noar and Nancy Grant Harrington summarize the latest in eHealth research, including a range of computer, Internet, and mobile applications, and offer observations and reflections on this growing area, such as dissemination of programs and future directions for the study of interactive health communication and eHealth.</p><p>Providing a timely and comprehensive review of current tools for health communication, <em>eHealth Applications</em> is a must-read for scholars, students, and researchers in health communication, public health, and health education.</p> <p>Foreword</p><p>Historical and Conceptual Foundations</p><p>1. eHealth applications: An Introduction and Overview</p><p>2. The Emergence of eHealth Applications</p><p>3. Interactivity: Conceptualizations, Effects, and Implications</p><p>eHealth Applications</p><p>4. Internet-Based Interventions For Health Behavior Change</p><p>5. Virtual Interactive Interventions For Reducing Risky Sex: Adaptations, Integrations, Innovations</p><p>6. Avatars For Health Behavior Change</p><p>7. Digital Games For Health Behavior Change: Research, Design, And Future Directions</p><p>8. Computer-Tailored Interventions For Improving Health Behaviors</p><p>9. Mobile Phones For Health Communication To Promote Behavior Change</p><p>10. Text Messaging Interventions For Chronic Disease Management And Health Promotion</p><p>11. Interactive Voice Response Technology For Chronic Disease Management </p><p>Practice Implications and Future Directions</p><p>12. Using Social Media To Enhance Health Communication Campaigns</p><p>13. Dissemination And Implementation Of ehealth Interventions</p><p>14. Health Information Technology Policy Issues: Relevance And Implications For ehealth Applications</p><p>15. Building An Evidence Base For ehealth Applications: Research Questions And Practice Implications</p>