Health Web Science (Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science)

This monograph is a call to action. It is an urgent request to those using the web to help find solutions to problems facing healthcare globally. The disciplines of Web Science and its subfield Health Web Science explore how the World Wide Web drives discussions, technologies, policies, and solutions, which surround health issues. The monograph presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web's impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web's health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself. Understanding and appreciating the overlapping, yet divergent disciplinary orientation of Health Web Science compared to related research domains, motivates specific research efforts around better utilization of, innovation on, and communication over and within the Web. Health Web Science is an ideal reference for researchers and practitioners with an interest in this emerging topic.

Boaz Kahana, Ph.D., is professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University. Dr. Kahana is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Gerontological Society of America. He has served as peer reviewer for the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute of Aging (NIA), and other government peer review groups. He served as department chair of psychology and as director of the Center for Applied Gerontological Research at Cleveland State University. He is on the editorial board of Aging and Mental Health. Boaz Kahana's publications cover the fields of psychology, stress and coping, traumatic stress among Holocaust survivors and Pearl Harbor survivors, and health of the aged. His clinical work included diagnostic assessment and therapeutic intervention with a wide variety of patients. He was born in New York City and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Eva Kahana, Ph.D., is the Robson Professor of Humanities and Sociology, and Director of the Elderly Care Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. She is past chair of the American Sociological Association's section on Aging and the Life Course, and recipient of the section's distinguished scholar award. She is principal investigator of two long term longitudinal studies, funded by the National Institute of Aging, which focus on the adaptation to frailty in later life and on successful aging in health and illness. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago, and she is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. She has also served on a variety of government research review committees. Eva Kahana is a child survivor of the Holocaust. She immigrated in 1956, with herfamily, from Hungary to the United States.

Deborah L. McGuinness is Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), New York.