Digital Health Communications

5 Preface: Info-communication Perspectives on Digital Health Communication

6 Acknowledgments

7 Author Biographies

8 Introduction: Updating Issues of Digital Health Communication

9 Begin Reading

10 List of Authors

11 Index

12 Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies

13 End User License Agreement

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Technological Prospects and Social Applications Set

coordinated by

Bruno Salgues

Volume 5

Edited by

Benoit Cordelier

Olivier Galibert

First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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As we finalize this collective work, we cannot disregard the health context that is highlighted by the very content of the book. We are confined for public health reasons. Each of us on one side of the Atlantic, like half of the world’s population on this day in April 2020, must face the health, social and emotional consequences of the pandemic caused by Covid-19.

We feel the fear of the dangers of disease and the necessary protection of ourselves and our people. We are subjected to a flood of information on the spread of the epidemic in traditional media, as well as on social media, that worries us and sometimes freezes us in fear. We keep in touch with our loved ones via digital tools hardly used by most until now, but which immediately become indispensable to maintain family, friendly and professional links, and at the same time, we are obliged to ensure pedagogical continuity for our students from a distance via digital tools. As actors of these new knowledge mediations, we do so twice over because we must also support our children as they attend their distance courses and evaluations that continue as best as possible during this period.

As you will have understood by reading these lines, the unprecedented health crisis we are experiencing today makes the general issue of the work you are holding in your hands (or reading on a screen) even more topical: how does digital technology contribute to changes in health information and communication? In other words, what are the contemporary challenges of digital communication in health?

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in 1946 as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” [OMS 46].

The adjective health refers to activities and facilities related to health and hygiene. It takes on a more operational connotation and thus evokes the challenges of public health protection.

In France, a distinction is even made between the social and medico-social sectors – defined by Laws 75-534 for the disabled and 75-535 for social and medico-social institutions, then replaced respectively by Laws 2005-102 and 2002-2 – and the health sector – with Laws 2002-303 on patients’ rights and the quality of the health system and 2004-806 for public health policy.

In Quebec, the purpose of Chapter s-2.2 of the Public Health Act is to protect the health of the population and to establish conditions favorable to the maintenance and improvement of the state of health and well-being of the population in general. It is this text that gives the government the authority to declare a state of health emergency, as is the case for the Covid-19 pandemic.

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