From seramar at umich.edu Mon Oct 25 10:45:53 2010 From: seramar at umich.edu (Maria Souden) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:45:53 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Panel on Health Info Use & Health Literacy, Tues 2p Message-ID: Hello fellow information behavior and health information scholars, Just putting in a plug for what we hope will be a stimulating and * interactive* session on "How understanding health information use can contribute to constructs of health literacy." We want this session to be exploratory and collaborative with the audience, so we are asking *you* to think about the same questions we're asking the panelists to respond to: ? What constitutes a source of health information in the lived experience of illness? ? What does the idea of ?quality health information? mean given varied intentions that people with illness often have when they approach a source? ? To what extent do models of information seeking translate to the lived experience of illness? A brief description of the panel is posted below. Hope to see you there! Tuesday, 2-3:30, Kings Garden South *-----------------* *Listening to Patients: How Understanding Health Information Use Can Contribute to Health Literacy Constructs* *Panelists: *Maria Souden, Tiffany C.E. Veinot, both University of Michigan School of Information; Shelagh Genuis, University of Alberta; Timothy Hogan, Center for the Managemnt of Complex Chronic Care & Loyola University School of Medicine; Ellen Rubenstein, University of Illinois GSLIS This panel focuses on expanding concepts of health literacy by exploring how the acquisition and use of health information through the context of people?s daily lives significantly enhances their understanding and implementation of both acute and chronic health treatment and management. Prevalent health literacy initiatives emphasize core information literacy skills and concerns by addressing issues such as readability, clarity in communication, and appropriate vetting of online health information sources; however, these measures do not address the intricate ways in which people interact with and use information when making decisions about their health.* * In this session, researchers working within a variety of cross-disciplinary arenas and contexts, posit that information behavior perspectives can enrich the conceptual base of health literacy, contributing a deeper understanding of people's engagement with and use of health information in the context of their lived experience with health conditions. -- Maria Souden, MSI Doctoral Candidate University of Michigan School of Information seramar at umich.edu maria.souden at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: