Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services

Call for Chapter Proposals
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Chapter proposal submission deadline: January 31, 2011
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A book edited by Isabel Maria Miranda & Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
isabel.m.f.miranda@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
isabel.m.f.miranda@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@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:  January 31, 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@gmail.com
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha,  mcruzcunha@gmail.com 

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