Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine: Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors (Health Informatics)

As health care is moving toward a team effort with patients as partners, this book provides guidance on the optimized use of health information and supporting technologies, and how people think and make decisions that affect their health and wellbeing. It focuses on investigations of how general public understand health information, assess risky behaviors, make healthcare decisions, and how they use health information technologies. e-health technologies have opened up new horizons for promoting increased self-reliance in patients. Although information technologies are now in widespread use, there is often a disparity between the scientific and technological knowledge underlying health care practices and the cultural beliefs, mental models, and cognitive representations of illness and disease. Misconceptions based on inaccurate perceptions and mental models, and flawed prior beliefs could lead to miscommunication as well as to erroneous decisions about individuals’ own health or the health of their family members. __Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine: Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors__ presents state of the art research in cognitive informatics for assessing the impact of patient behaviour. It is designed to assist all involved at the intersection of the health care institution and the patient and covers contributions from recognized researchers and leaders in the field. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Cognitive Informatics and Behavior Change in the Health Care Domain....Pages 3-11 Design and Implementation of Behavioral Informatics Interventions....Pages 13-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Making Sense of Health Problems: Folk Cognition and Healthcare Decisions....Pages 45-64 Toward a Framework for Understanding Embodied Health Literacy....Pages 65-87 Models of Health Beliefs in South India: Impact on Managing Childhood Nutritional Illnesses....Pages 89-116 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Health Information Literacy as a Tool for Addressing Adolescent Behaviors, Knowledge, Skills, and Academic Trajectories....Pages 119-136 Using Behavior Measurement to Estimate Cognitive Function Based on Computational Models....Pages 137-163 The Slippery Slope of Sexual Decision-Making in Young Adults: The Role of Social and Cognitive Factors....Pages 165-193 Numeracy and Older Immigrants’ Health: Exploring the Role of Language....Pages 195-216 Culturally Appropriate Behavioral Change in Maternal Health: Role of Mobile and Online Technologies Over Time....Pages 217-233 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy Through Systems Approaches....Pages 237-251 Aging, Cognition, and Technology Systems....Pages 253-270 eHealth Literacy as a Mediator of Health Behaviors....Pages 271-297 Front Matter....Pages 299-299 From Personal Informatics to Personal Analytics: Investigating How Clinicians and Patients Reason About Personal Data Generated with Self-Monitoring in Diabetes....Pages 301-313 Leveraging Social Media for Health Promotion and Behavior Change: Methods of Analysis and Opportunities for Intervention....Pages 315-345 Game Based Behavior Change Methods in Healthcare: The Case of Obesity ....Pages 347-366 Front Matter....Pages 367-367 Cognitive Informatics and Health Behaviors: The Road Ahead....Pages 369-373 Back Matter....Pages 375-383