Communicating Rare Diseases and Disorders in the Digital Age

Communicating Rare Diseases and Disorders in the Digital Age

Release Date: January, 2020|Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 412
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2088-8
ISBN13: 9781799820888|ISBN10: 1799820882|EISBN13: 9781799820895
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Description & Coverage
Description:

A primary concern of rare disease diagnosis is the lack of accurate information that may lead to delayed interventions, administering inaccurate treatments, and social consequences. Health communication continues to be one-way and rely on the expertise from the health practitioner. In such a broad spectrum of rare diseases, patients may find it difficult to obtain timely information, accurate diagnosis, and appropriate treatments, surgeries, medications, or psychological counseling in their own countries. The use of information and communication technologies can create new communication channels that address this lack of knowledge.

Communicating Rare Diseases and Disorders in the Digital Age is an essential reference source that uses computer-mediated communication to improve patient knowledge when afflicted or dealing with rare health conditions. Featuring research on topics such as support networking, eHealth management, and social computing, this book is ideally designed for health practitioners, physicians, patients, medical administrators, nurses, surgeons, infectious disease educators, hospital directors, world health organizations, academicians, students, and researchers seeking coverage on current advances in health communication, computer science, and epidemiology.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Disease Management
  • eHealth Management
  • Health Communication
  • Media Campaigning
  • Mobile Technology
  • Patient Experience
  • Social Computing
  • Social Media Networking
  • Support Networking
  • Symptom Diagnosis
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Editor/Author Biographies

Liliana Vale Costa is a researcher at Digimedia - Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre and invited lecturer in Editorial Media, at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She holds a European Ph.D. in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms at the University of Aveiro and University of Porto (with internship at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University); a M.A degree in Multimedia Communication and a B.Sc. in New Technologies of Communication, both at the University of Aveiro. Her research interests are universal design, digital games, virtual communities, three-dimensional environments, ageing studies, learning, human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, natural interfaces, eHealth, mobile apps and digital inclusion.

Sonia Oliveira is member of HMRI (Hunter Medical Research Institute) and HCRA (Hunter Cancer Research Alliance) (Australia) and CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials (Portugal). She received her PhD in Human Physiology from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and also holds a Master in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. During her PhD, she explored the Nerve-Cancer connection in tumors. She also worked in the genetic and molecular control of the mammalian male meiosis and in the anatomical and physiologic effects of compounds present in herbal extracts. She has broad research interests namely in pathology, regenerative medicine and in neurophysiology. She is interested in using biotechnology and biomimetic systems to cure mammalian disorders, namely through the application of stem cells to correct mammalian tissues defects.

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