Informed and Healthy
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on the Value of Information to Health Care
Description
Key Features
- Provides a new model of information behaviour that emerges inductively from qualitative data
- Focuses on value of information rather than information needs
- Explains in detail the methodological approach used to value attribution
- Serves as a valuable resource for health professionals, planners, and policy makers, as well as researchers interested in health information systems and their applicability in different environments
Readership
Graduate students on health/medical informatics and information systems; health professionals, planners and policy makers
Table of Contents
Chapter one: Health information in Uganda
Chapter two: Access and use of information by women and health workers
Chapter three: Information activities, value attribution and effect on health outcomes
Chapter four: Modelling information behaviour
Chapter five: Towards new understanding of value attribution and information behaviour
Product details
- No. of pages: 186
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: June 15, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128042908
- eBook ISBN: 9780128043660
About the Author
Maria Musoke
Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University, Uganda
• 1st Ugandan woman to become a Professor of and hold a PhD in Information Science
• PhD led to revision of the “Slawson and Shaugnessy formula” (reported in BMJ 2002;325:983 - formula is a “usefulness equation” for medical information)
• Initiated at Makerere University 1) ‘Information competence and management’ course for graduate students and researchers, 2) ‘Health information systems and services’ course for MSc-LIS students, 3) information literacy outreach program to rural health units
• Has conducted research, published 20+ papers, presented at many conferences, and received various awards. For example:
- Nov 2014-Aug 2015 - Elsevier Foundation/Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program funded $45k to her research sabbatical at the University of Sheffield
- Keynote speaker at Partnerships in Health Information 20th Anniversary in London (2012) and Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa conference in Malawi (2004) and Tanzania (2014)
- 2015 - Swedish International Development Agency awarded her for exemplary leadership and management of the Makerere University Library project under the Makerere - Sida Collaborative Research Programme for ten years (2004-2014)
- 2010 - Gender Equality Award, Makerere University
- 2001 - ICT stories Award winner based on submission of “Simple ICTs reduce maternal mortality in rural Uganda”