Internet and Health Care

<p><em>The Internet and Health Care</em>: Theory Research and Practice presents an in-depth introduction to the field of health care and the Internet from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It combines expertise in the areas of the social sciences medicine policy and systems analysis. With an international collection of contributors it provides a current examination of key issues and research projects in the area. Methods and data used in the chapters include personal interviews focus groups observations regional and national surveys online transcript analysis and much more.<br> <br><strong>Sections in the book cover:</strong><br>*e-Health trends and theory; </p><p>*searching discussing and evaluating online health information at the individual level of analysis; </p><p>*discussing health information at the group or community level; and </p><p>*implementing health information systems at the regional and social level. </p><p><em>The Internet and Health Care</em> will prove useful for university educators and students in the social public health and medical disciplines including Internet researchers. It is also oriented to professionals in many disciplines who will appreciate an integrative theoretical empirical and critical analysis of the subject matter including developers and providers of online health information.</p>