Information Practices and Knowledge in Health

In the field of health, information practices and the organization of knowledge constitute a major challenge today. The practices of the medical profession, or of patients, are evolving under the influence of digital technology. At the same time, the way in which medical knowledge is organized, represented and mediated is also evolving.

Information Practices and Knowledge in Health addresses the different aspects of the field of specialized medical and health information; it focuses on the informational practices of professionals in the sector, of patients and, more broadly, of citizens with regards to their health. This book also considers the systems that are used for organizing knowledge in this field.

Introduction xi
Viviane CLAVIER and Céline PAGANELLI

Chapter 1. Open Access as a Regulation of Scientific Information in Health 1
Chérifa BOUKACEM-ZEGHMOURI and Hans DILLAERTS

Chapter 2. Knowledge Organization and Studies of Information Practices: Contribution to the Characterization of Health Information 19
Viviane CLAVIER and Céline PAGANELLI

Chapter 3. Health Literacy in Complex Digital Information Environments 41
Eloria VIGOUROUX-ZUGASTI, Olivier LE DEUFF and Amar LAKEL

Chapter 4. The Essential Role of Health Information Literacy in Seniors' Healthcare Communication 71
Kristina ERIKSSON-BACKA and Stefan EK

Chapter 5. Categorization of Audiences and Hierarchization of Actors in the Journalistic Narrative on HIV/AIDS Prevention. What Implications for Prevention Information? 97
Cécile LORIATO

Chapter 6. Historical Approach to Health Information in Anti-alcohol Prevention: The Case of the American National Prohibition Campaign (1910–1919) 117
Aude CHAUVIAT

Chapter 7. Professional Uses of Specialized Information in Ophthalmology. Interview with Pascal Four, Doctor of Ophthalmology 151
Viviane CLAVIER

Chapter 8. Organization of Medical Knowledge: Documentation Techniques Applied to a Macro-domain Underpinned by Socio-political Issues 167
Marcin TRZMIELEWSKI and Claudio GNOLI

List of Authors 207

Index 209

Celine Paganelli is a Professor in information and communication sciences at Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3, France, where she also runs the LERASS research laboratory. Her work focuses on health information.

Viviane Clavier is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, where she teaches information and communication sciences. She is also Deputy Director of GRESEC, which is a generalist laboratory in information and communication sciences. Her research focuses on health information.