[Sigtis-l] 2nd call for chapter proposals | Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services | 2011, February 6

[Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha]

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services: 
Developments and Applications
Call for Chapter Proposals
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NEW DEADLINE for chapter proposals:
*** February 6, 2011 ***
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A book edited by Isabel Maria Miranda& Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
mcruzcunha at gmail.com
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Dear Professor/ Dr./Mrs./Mr.,

It is our pleasure to invite you to consider contributing to this 
handbook of research.
Chapter proposals of 1-2 pages clearly explaining the mission and 
concerns of the proposed chapter are accepted until January 31, 2011.
Proposals should be sent in Word format or PDF to mcruzcunha at gmail.com
Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues / peers who might 
be interested.

Kind regards,
Isabel Miranda& Manuela Cunha

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---------- Introduction:

The healthcare and social care sectors are living a continuously growing 
importance in the past years throughout the entire world, and 
particularly in most Western countries, where we witness an increase of 
expenditure in health and social care per capita every year. This is 
related to many aspects of contemporary society, including an increase 
in life expectancy, the public demand for a better quality of life and 
better social and health services. This must be met with more 
cost-efficient approaches, and new technology-based solutions for 
providing health and social services.

The ICT sector is highly present in this context, with a wide range of 
actions, interventions and developments, from research and development 
of new models for application and/or integration of existing technology, 
new technological advances, until the widespread reach of broadband 
internet access to all population (particularly remote areas) and 
overcoming the digital divide due to ability to use technology. 
Simultaneously specific public and private health and social actions are 
emerging, and the problematic issues of integrating the population with 
special care needs (such as elder people and the temporarily or 
permanently disabled) in the e-Health and e-Social care systems are 
being faced as emergent, and contemplated in the social development agenda.

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---------- Overall objectives of this book:

The handbook of research intends to introduce and discuss the main 
issues, challenges, opportunities and trends related to the recent 
ICT-based developments, applications and services in all embracing 
fields of social and healthcare.

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---------- Recommended topics:

The handbook is intended to cover the following aspects:
- Emerging trends on the social and health care sectors, that can be 
addressed by ICT-based applications;
- User needs analysis;
- Technological aspects of solutions and applications;
- Studies of preparedness, adoption and impact;
- Applications and solutions under development or implemented in the 
sector, from the technological, social, organizational dimensions;
- The human aspects, comprehending psychological aspects; behavioral 
effects; social effects; accessibility to technologies; trust; 
expectancies; motivations.


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---------- Audience:

The handbook of research is intended to support a professional audience 
of the health care and social care sectors of public and private 
institutions, ICT developers and researchers, ICT enterprise managers, 
and also an academic audience (teachers, researchers and students, 
mainly of post-graduate studies).


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---------- Submission Procedure:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 
31, 2010, a one page proposal clearly explaining the mission and 
concerns of the proposed chapter. This proposal should be sent in Word 
format or PDF to isabel.m.f.miranda at gmail.com

Authors will be notified by February 10 about the status of their 
proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines to 
prepare the full chapter (7,000 – 10,000 words) to be submitted by May 
20, 2011.

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis 
by two or three reviewers.

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea 
Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly 
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” “Business 
Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For 
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit 
www.igi-global.com. This publication scheduled for release in 2012.


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---------- Important dates:

- Deadline for proposals submission: *** February 6, 2011 ***
- Notification of proposals acceptance/rejection: February 10, 2011
- Full chapter submission deadline: May 20, 2011
- Notification of review results: July 15, 2011
- Submission of revised version of accepted chapters: September 5, 2011
- Submission of final materials of accepter chapters: September 30, 2011

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For any questions, please contact the editors:

Isabel Maria Miranda, isabel.m.f.miranda at gmail.com
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, mcruzcunha at gmail.com

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