[AISWorld] KM&EL CFP Special Issue on eHealth Literacy: Emergence of a new concept for creating, evaluating and understanding online health resources for the public

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*Call for Papers*



*Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL)*

*Journal Metrics (Scopus):*

*2014 SJR (SCImago Journal Rank): 0.359 | Ranking: 82/155 Management of
Technology and Innovation | 411/914 Education*

*2014 SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): 0.64 | Ranking: 77/118
Management of Technology and Innovation | 401/687 Education*



*Special Issue on*



*eHealth Literacy: Emergence of a new concept for creating, evaluating and
understanding online health resources for the public*



*Guest Editor*



*Prof. **Andre W. Kushni**ru**k** (ACMI Fellow)*

School of Health Information Science,

University of Victoria

Victoria, Canada

Email: andrek at uvic.ca <%20andrek at uvic.ca>



This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to
coverage of advances in the emerging area of eHealth literacy. Methods for
assessing the extent to which people can find, understand and use health
information obtained from electronic sources (i.e. eHealth literacy) are
needed in order to improve the effectiveness of healthcare in the age of
mobile and virtual healthcare. Indeed an increasing number of information
systems and resources have been designed for use by the general population
as well as specific patient and lay populations such as the elderly,
disabled and the young. However, there currently exists a huge range of
systems and health IT applications and the extent to which they meet the
information and understanding needs of end users is often questionable.
Indeed many health systems, websites and on-line resources have been
criticized for not only lack of usability but also for issues related to
the content of information, its understandability, its usefulness and its
presentation. In addition, new methods (that can draw from areas such as
health literacy, as well as user-centered and participatory health IT
design processes) are needed to fine-tune and improve the uptake of
information presented to users in order to improve the health of the
general population.

In this call we invite papers that describe advances in understanding
health literacy as it relates to use of on-line health resources and the
concept of eHealth literacy itself.  In addition, the special issue is
interested in new approaches to improving health and eHealth literacy, and
improving the adoption of systems and information resources targeted to
patients, lay people and the general population, as well as specific
subgroups (such as the elderly, disabled and young people). This can be
through improved educational initiatives as well as improved system and
information resource design and evaluation. Studies evaluating health and
eHealth literacy using information technologies are also welcome.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - eHealth literacy as a concept
   - The relation of eHealth literacy to health literacy research
   - Advances in the application of concepts from eHealth literacy in the
   design and deployment of new information technologies
   - Research on the potential and opportunities for improving the uptake
   of health related information using eHealth, web technologies, mobile
   health applications and virtual health applications
   - Approaches to measuring and assessing eHealth literacy
   - Approaches to assessing user needs regarding health information and
   its understanding and translation into practice
   - Approaches to designing health information systems for the public that
   better take into account the information needs, understanding, capacity as
   well as limitations of end users
   - Best practices for incorporating advanced health information
   technology into daily health practices and promotion.
   - Approaches and technologies for providing distance health information
   and support to lay people and patients
   - Results of studies examining eHealth literacy
   - Educational practices and approaches to improving eHealth literacy
   - New developments, trends and approaches to e-learning and distance
   education of the general public that takes into consideration eHealth
   literacy

This issue is designed to elicit both theoretical and applied papers that
describe efforts around eHealth literacy. We are interested in both
theoretical and applied papers that aim to improve healthcare and
specifically improve uptake of health information by the wider population
using information technologies and online resources. We would like to
stimulate interest in the issues across academia, practice, industry,
research and policy and therefore we welcome focused papers from all
sectors.

*Important Dates*

Submission due: 15th September, 2015

Notification of acceptance: 15th November, 2015

Publication schedule: December, 2015 (Vol. 7. No. 4)

*Submission Instructions*

Electronic submission by email to the Guest Editor is required (
andrek at uvic.ca).

Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently
be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A standard double-blind
review process will be used for selecting papers to be published in this
special issue. Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL
Website (see URL
http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
)

For more information about the KM&EL, please visit the web site:

http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication