Health Behavior, Health Service and Health Policy for Comprehensive Health in Digital and Aging Era: Social Sciences Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

We are living in a digital, intelligent society. The rapid developments in mobile Internet, big data, communication technology (5G), cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and other technologies have promoted the digitization and intelligence of society and created new solutions for health management. The emergence of emerging medical and health products, such as intelligent assisted diagnosis, Internet hospitals, wearable medical devices, smart surgical devices, medical big data analysis, and online health communities, has improved medical conditions and health, changing lifestyles, ways of thinking, and forms of communication.

Our global society is also aging. In order to actively adapt to aging societies, support the greater desire for independent living, and enable older people to share the benefits of information technology development with other age groups, we need to empower people to use digital technology for their health and to use aging-related products and services. In this process, the needs of elderly people, their friends and families, healthcare providers, and the public should be considered, as well as the changes in their behavior and psychology.

This Special Issue focuses on how these transformations and innovations to further promote health and better cope with the challenges of global aging. Perspectives for this Special Issue include research on digital and smart health services, empirical studies of health behaviors, and management issues in digital health. The interests of this Special Issue include topics related to these considerable research challenges and comprehensive achievements.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Emerging technologies, Internet and health service innovation;
• Big data and health information management;
• Behavioral issues in digital health science;
• Psychological problems, mental health behavior and education;
• Smart health service;
• Digital health and Internet hospitals;
• E-health and health social networks;
• Health IT acceptance or involvement;
• Chronic diseases management;
• Risks, safety, security and privacy of health information technologies;
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare;
• User behaviors and managerial issues in online health communities;
• Health knowledge service;
• Health information systems;
• Active and comprehensive health management, dissemination and communication;
• Elderly health, ageing care and the combination with IT;
• Smart ageing care service and ageing care management;
• Mobile Apps, wearable devices, Internet-based health IT products innovation;
• Operation management and decision science in healthcare;
• Other healthcare behavior and health service issues in the new era.

Prof. Dr. Dongxiao Gu
Prof. Dr. Jiantong Zhang
Prof. Dr. Jia Li
Dr. Yu Zhao
Guest Editors

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