Technology, Communication, Disparities and Government Options in Health and Health Care Services

Contributors from America and international contributors from Norway, Taiwan, and Malaysia highlight current work in the field of technology in healthcare and healthcare services. Part one provides a review of the literature in technology, communication, and health disparities and the government’s role. Part two contains two chapters: the potential for information technology to improve health care equity, and patterns of online health searching and the de-professionalization of medical knowledge. Part three looks at specific communications, such as public health communication messages to help teen mothers, and parents’ Internet discussion of the HPV vaccine. Part four discusses government roles and offers lessons from other countries, such as social implications of long-term care insurance in Japan. Part five confronts health disparities, with material on socioeconomic causes of health disparities and elderly Puerto Ricans’ experiences of depression treatment. The book is distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)