eHealth Applications Promising Strategies for Behavior Change [Paperback]

eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Changeprovides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of these technology-based interventions for public health promotion and explores the rapid growth of an innovative interdisciplinary field.

The chapters in this work discuss key eHealth applications by presenting research examining a variety of technology-based applications. Authors Seth M. Noar and Nancy Grant Harrington summarize the latest in eHealth research, including a range of computer, Internet, and mobile applications, and offer observations and reflections on this growing area, such as dissemination of programs and future directions for the study of interactive health communication and eHealth.

Providing a timely and comprehensive review of current tools for health communication, eHealth Applicationsis a must-read for scholars, students, and researchers in health communication, public health, and health education.

Foreword: Victor Strecher

Historical and Conceptual Foundations

1. eHealth applications: An Introduction and Overview: Seth M. Noar
Nancy Grant Harrington

2. The Emergence of eHealth Applications: Sheana Bull

3. Interactivity: Conceptualizations, Effects, and Implications: Deborah Chung

eHealth Applications

4. Internet-Based Interventions For Health Behavior Change:David B. Buller
Anna H. L. Floyd
Klein Buendel, Inc.

5. Virtual Interactive Interventions For Reducing Risky Sex: Adaptations, Integrations, Innovations:

Lynn Carol Miller
Paul Robert Appleby
John L. Christensen
Carlos Godoy
Mei Si
Charisse Corsbie-Massay
Stephen J.lCÀ