Biosensing: how citizens’ views illuminate emerging health and social risks

Health world views of post-Soviet citizens.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had an adverse impact on the lives of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. This paper reports on qualitative case studies including interviews, focus groups and children's essays from Russia and Ukraine, on the topics of everyday understanding of health and the factors influencing it. The majority report poor health and difficult material circumstances. Their ...

Masked Or Informed Citizens? Social Media And Online Health Consultations

The diffusion of social media is having profound impacts on the relationship between government and citizens in many areas of government service provision. In the area of healthcare the emergence of new venues of interaction between patients and between patients and doctors is challenging the government-established digital channels for healthcare service provision. In this paper we present a cl...

What social media offers to health professionals and citizens.

a Independent consultant, Coogee, NSW, Australia. Correspondence to Christine McNab (e-mail: [email protected]). Timely, accessible and credible health information is critical for improving public health outcomes, whether to help people take action during an outbreak or to prevent illness.1,2 Increased access to the Internet and mobile communication combined with strategic uses of social...

Emerging ICT for Citizens’ Veillance

The report explores theories and practices surrounding citizens’ veillance activities, namely a broad range of citizen-driven initiatives for civic purposes. These can aim at creating new forms of knowledge and awareness; building new social communities and commitments; contributing to protection of common goods; empowering citizens in protecting or restoring some fundamental individual and col...

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (scenihr)