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E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability

E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability

Åsa Smedberg
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466627703|ISBN10: 1466627700|EISBN13: 9781466627710
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch016
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Smedberg, Åsa. "E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability." User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 310-325. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch016

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Smedberg, Å. (2013). E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability. In I. Management Association (Ed.), User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 310-325). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch016

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Smedberg, Åsa. "E-Health Communities for Learning Healthy Habits: How to Consider Quality and Usability." In User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 310-325. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.ch016

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Abstract

There are e-health communities of many different kinds available on the Internet today. Some e-health communities are for people who need to change their established bad, or unhealthy, habits such as the ones for people suffering from overweight or smoking. To develop and maintain a healthier life-style is not an easy task to succeed with, it involves being able to change everyday situations. E-health communities can assist in this process through continuous interactions between community members. However, whether these e-health communities actively support learning depends on the ways they help community members reflect upon their habits, underlying reasons and motivational factors. In this chapter, the author presents a framework for how to evaluate these e-health communities from a learning perspective. The framework covers different types of conversation topics, ways to respond and community knowledge.

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