Posts Categorized: Network Society

Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference: from empirical data to Web 2.0 trends

First of all I would like to thank Gustavo Cardoso, Miquel Angel Mayer and indeed Rita Espanha and Michael Hardey for the marvellous working days we had in Barcelona. It was a honour to have the opportunity to share during three days thoughts, reflections, past researches and ideas about health and the Internet. I’m sure… Read more »

Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference

I’m pleasure to announce “Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference” on 15th May at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. The speakers are: Prof. Rita Esphana (CIES-ISCTE – OberCom, Portugal) – “Health in the Information Age” Prof. Michael Hardey (Hull/York Medical School – SIRU, UK) – “Health and Web 2.0” The conference is sponsored… Read more »

Internet, Health and Society. Implications for health promotion in Catalonia

Yesterday, I was invited by Cristina Iniesta, Hospital del Mar Manager Director and Health Promoting Hospital Network Coordinator, to present the results from Internet, Health and Society in Catalonia in one of the network meetings at Hospital Sant Joan de Deu. The aims of the presentation were: (1) to analyse in what way and to… Read more »

Health in the Information Age – A Saúde na Era da Informaçao

On 23th and 24th of April I was at Lisbon invited by Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha to the presentation of the research project Health in the Information Age supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Brief description: The first objective of the study is to analyse in what way and in what measure the ICT’s, especially… Read more »

E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia at eHealth News EU

I would like to thank indeed Ruslan David, eHealthNews.EU Portal Administrator/Editor, for his help to disseminate the results of the research project E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia and also for his wonderful job as Editor of eHealthNews.EU – the First European eHealth News Portal.

E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of Catalonia

Between 2005 and 2007 I worked in a research project titled Project Internet Catalunya – Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health System (PIC Salut) directed by Prof. Castells and supported by Catalonia Government. I’m glad to announce that the English summary is already available: E-HEALTH AND SOCIETY: An Empirical… Read more »

Ways of Knowing: a New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

I’m working on the introduction of my thesis tentatively titled “Health and the Internet in the Network Society” and I have started to read Ways of Knowing: a New History of Science, Technology and Medicine by John V. Pickstone. About the book: In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework… Read more »

Pathways to the doctor: "clinical iceberg" and "the long tail"

I have been reading and taking some wiki notes about ‘Pathways to the Doctor’ in the Information Age: the Role of ICTs in Contemporary Lay Referral Systems written by Nettleton and Hanlon. The article stars explaining the ‘clinical iceberg’ concept identified by social scientists (Last, 1963; Wadsworth et al., 1971) during the post-war years. This… Read more »

Understanding Innovative Health Technologies by Andrew Webster

I have been reading Health, Technology & Society. A Sociological Critique written by Andrew Webster, who has also written other articles and books about this issue. I would like to share my notes about the first chapter titled Understanding Innovative Health Technologies, partially  based on other author’s paper Innovative Health Technologies and the Social: Redefining Health,… Read more »

Health Literacy in a Network Society

It has come to my notice that MedlinePlus has a new page on Health Literacy where Health literacy is defined as “the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about your health and medical care. Health information can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills”. eHealth has been… Read more »