Managing Your Health Online

Sillence, Elizabeth and Briggs, Pamela (2018) Managing Your Health Online. In: The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198812746

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Abstract

It is now easier than ever before to access digital health information. Individuals can monitor and record information about their own health, gather information online, and share personal experiences with those in a similar position. In fact, this shift towards peer-to-peer sharing sites represents a significant change in the way people think about online health information and raises a number of challenges around eHealth and personal information management, including issues of trust, privacy, and self-disclosure. This chapter examines two of those challenges in light of increased peer exchange around health: the sharing of personal health information, and the curation of such a large and complex information resource. It also discusses directions for future research in the field.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Digital health, eHealth, trust, self-disclosure, peer-to-peer, curation, personal information management, privacy
Subjects:	B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine C800 Psychology
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	20 May 2019 16:52
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 18:48
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39364

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