IS_19_Readings

IS INFORMATION MAKING US FAT AND SICK?!?

Week 1:

Session One – October 3, 2006

Topic: How information positively and negatively influences weight-related health status and behavior:

a) different audiences, e.g., obesity epidemic as “tempest in teapot”

b) different information purveyors with conflicting missions and vested interests, e.g., science/medicine, journalism, politics, commercial marketing

c) cultural shaping of messages and dissemination channels

Kersh R, Morone J. The politics of obesity: seven steps to government action. Health Affairs 2002;142-153.

Saguy AC, Riley KW. Weighing both sides: morality, mortality, and framing contests over obesity. J Health Politics Policy Law 2005; 30(5):869-921.

Sturm R. The economics of physical activity: societal trends and rationales for intervention. Am J Prev Med 2004;27(3S):126-35.

Yancey AK, Leslie J, Abel EK. Obesity at the crossroads: feminist and public health perspectives. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2006;31(2):425-43.

Yancey AK, Simon PA, McCarthy WJ, Lightstone AS, Fielding JE. Ethnic and gender differences in overweight self-perception: relationship to sedentariness. Obes 2006;14: 980-8.

Urbina I. In the treatment of diabetes, success often does not pay. New York Times. January 11, 2006

Session Two – October 24, 2006

Topic: How sociodemographic characteristics, e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, acculturation, urbanicity, and US region, affect health information and health services availability and access.

Haughton LT, Kreuter MW, Hall J, Holt CL, Wheetley E. Digital divide and stability of access in African-American women visiting urban public health clinics. J Health Care Poor Underserv 2005;16:362-74

Yancey A, Bastani R, Glenn B. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Status. In: Andersen R, Rice T, Kominski G (eds.), Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, 3rd edition. In press, 2007

Yancey AK, Ortega AN, Kumanyika SK. Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participants. Ann Rev Pub Health 2006;27:1-28

Yancey AK, Ory MG, Davis SM. Dissemination of physical activity promotion interventions in underserved populations. Am J Prev Med. In press, 2006.

Eaton, S. B., and L. Cordain. (2001) An evolutionary foundation for health promotion. World Rev Nutr Diet 90:5-12.

Session Three -- October 31, 2006

Topic: Characterizing the information eco-system: formal mechanisms for delivery of and access to health and healthcare information

“Searching for Healthcare Information: Is the Internet Failing You? Medicine on the Net 7 (7), July 2001: 7-8.

Heetebry, Irene, Myron Hatcher and Hossein Tabriziani. “Web Based Health Education, E-Learning, for Weight Management,” Journal of Medical Systems 29 (6) December 2005: 611-617.

McInerney, Claire R. and Nora J. Bird. “Assessing Website Quality in Context: Retrieving Information About Genetically Modified Food on the Web,” Information Research 10 (2) January 2005.

Stankus, Tony. “Supporting Volunteers in Their Personal War on Obesity with Reliable Information from Widely Available Health Science Journals,” Reference and User Services Quarterly 43 (3) Spring 2004: 192-205.

Tufano, James T. and Bryant T. Karras. “Mobile eHealth Interventions for Obesity: A Timely Opportunity to Leverage Convergence Trends,” Journal of Medical Internet Research 7 (5) article e58 2005.

Warner, Dorothy, and J. Drew Procaccino. “Toward Wellness: Women Seeking Health Information,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55 (8) 2004: 709-730.

Session Four – November 7, 2006

Topic: How information (messages, messengers and channels) is used to promote healthy behaviors

Grier S, Bryant CA. Social marketing in public health. Ann Rev Public Health 2005;26:319-39.

Maibach EW. Recreating communities to support active living: a new role for social marketing. Am J Health Promot 2003;18:114-9.

Stokols D, Grzywacz JG, McMahan S, Phillips K. Increasing the health promotive capacity of human environments. Am J Health Promot 2003;18:4-13.

Yancey A. Building capacity to prevent and control chronic disease in underserved communities: expanding the wisdom of WISEWOMAN in intervening at the environmental level. J Women’s Health 2004; 13(5):644-9.

Yancey AK, Fielding JE, Flores GF, Sallis JF, Breslow L. Creating a public health infrastructure for physical activity promotion: a challenge to chronic disease control policy. Am J Prev Med. In press, 2006.

Yancey AK, Lewis LB, Guinyard JJ, Sloan DC, Nascimento LM, Galloway-Gilliam L et al. Putting promotion into practice: the African Americans Building a Legacy of Health organizational wellness program. Health Prom Prac 2006; 7(3):233S246S.

Session Five – November 28, 2006

Topic: Characterizing the information eco-system: informal (invisible) mechanisms, e.g. social network analysis. Possible strategies for using information and information technology more effectively to address obesity and inequities in access to health and healthcare information.

Allen, Margaret, Suzanne Matthew, and Mary Jo Boland. “Working with Immigrant and Refugee Populations: Issues and Hmong Case Study,” Library Trends Special Issue “Consumer Health Issues, Trends and Research: Part 1. Strategic Strides toward a Better Future 53 (2) Fall 2004.

Carroll, John M. and Mary Beth Rosson. “A Trajectory for Community Networks,” The Information Society 19 2003: 381-393.

Chu, Clara. “Immigrant Children Mediators (ICM): Bridging the Literacy Gap in Immigrant Communities,” in Proceedings of the 65th IFLA Council and General Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, August 20-August 28, 1999.

Courtright, Christina. “Health Information-seeking Among Latino Newcomers: An Exploratory Study,” Information Research 20 (2) January 2005.

Fisher, Karen E., Elizabeth Marcoux, Lupine S. Miller, Agueda Sánchez, and Eva Ramirez Cunningham. Information Behavior of Migrant Hispanic Farm Workers and Their Families in the Pacific Northwest,” Information Research 10 (1) October 2004.

Hampton, Keith N. “Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb,” The Information Society 19 2003: 417-428.