The work of scholars in this cluster examines and explores the behaviours, attributes and interactions of actors and systems in health and health-related domains as they relate to: 1) the production, organization, and retrieval of health information, including the development, implementation and evaluation of health information systems both in the context of developed and developing world health care systems; 2) the use of information by various actors in the system, including health care practitioners, policy / program decision-makers and people seeking health information for themselves and their family members; and 3) the translation, linkage and exchange of health-related information between and among the actors in this, and related, systems. The emphasis is on critical approaches to examining these issues and their interaction, using theory from within and external to LIS, including fields such as cultural studies, science and technology studies, women's studies, etc.

The following faculty members have research interests in this area (faculty member's program affiliation indicated in parentheses):

Ajiferuke, Burkell, Campbell, Harris, McKenzie, Neal, Quan-Haase, Robinson, Smeltzer, Wathen.

The followig LIS doctoral student has research interests in this area:

Abrahamson

[02/10/2010]