Andreas Holzinger Klaus-Martin Simonic (Eds.) 2011 7th Conference of theWorkgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011 The topic of the USAB 2011 conference is of tremendous importance: information quality in healthcare. We envision this as the means to bridge the hiatus theoreticus, and as a means to bring technology and medicine […]

EdEEditors Mark Thurmond Daniel Zeng Carlos Castillo-Chavez Hsinchun Chen William B. Lober 2011 Information systems are central to the development of effective comprehensive approaches aimed at the prevention, detection, mitigation, and management of human and animal infectious disease outbreaks.

Pranee Liamputtong Editor 2011 A Cross-Cultural Perspective This book is born out of my personal life. I breastfed my two children for a long period. My first daughter, Zoe, was breastfed for 2 years, and Emma, my younger one, was breastfed for 4 years. Often, people made comment about my behaviour, saying that it was unusual for a […]

WALTER GARCÍA-FONTES 2011

Alfred Winter • Reinhold Haux Elske Ammenwerth • Birgit Brigl Nils Hellrung • Franziska Jahn 2011 Architectures and Strategies In 2004, the textbook “Strategic Information Management in Hospitals – An Introduction to Hospital Information Systems” appeared in this Health Informatics Series of Springer. The book was received well and belongs – according to the publishing house – […]

Gustavo Carlo · Lisa J. Crockett · Miguel A. Carranza Editors 2011 Research and Applications The volume editors for this 57th volume of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation are Gustavo Carlo, Lisa Crockett and Miguel Carranza. The volume editors coordinated the symposium that lead to this volume including selecting and inviting the contributors.

Francesco Paolucci 2011 Options for Design This book is the result of the research I focused on for the last 7 years and represents an updated and extended version of my PhD dissertation entitled “The design of basic and supplementary health care financing schemes: implications for efficiency and affordability”, mostly written when I was working as a researcher […]

Johan Willem van de Gronden • Erika Szyszczak • Ulla Neergaard • Markus Krajewski Editors 2011 Over the last 20 years, it has become clear that EU law has had a considerable impact on health care, despite the limited EU competence to legislate in this field. A very important development is the Commission’s proposal for a Directive […]

Bernice A. Pescosolido ● Jack K. Martin Jane D. McLeod ● Anne Rogers Editors 2011

Richard A. Settersten, Jr. • Jacqueline L. Angel Editors 2011 The idea for this handbook was sparked in anticipation of the 30th anniversary of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) in August of 2009. We received an invitation from Howard Kaplan at Texas A&M University to edit a Handbook of Sociology of […]