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Session: E-Health: A new Frontier for Health Communication
3358.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
E-Health: A new Frontier for Health Communication
Given the recent boom and bust of the technology sector, where do we stand today with eHealth practices and resources? This session will focus on the evolving ways that the public and health communication professionals and researchers use the Internet for health purposes. Patient internet utilization and decision making will kick-off the session followed by lessons learned from the past 10 years of the CHESS system. New developments for health communication researchers using technology and quality grassroots initiatives for community-based online resources will be presented.
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand characteristics of patient behavior when seeking health information on the Internet 2. Define key components of quality eHealth communication resources 3. List examples of successful ASP solutions to accessing and health-related information and understand how they serve the public health community
Moderator(s):Mary Jo Deering, PhD
4:30 PMWhat e-patients do online and how it affects their health care decisions  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lee Rainie
4:50 PMA decade of research and development in consumer health communication: the CHESS system
Fiona M. McTavish, MS
5:10 PMGrassroots initiatives in eHealth -- online communities and health
Linda M. Harris, PhD
5:30 PMUsing the web to facilitate communication and effect change in quality of life indicators: The Healthy Communities Network
Marcos Athanasoulis, DrPH, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
CE Credits:CME, Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA