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MATERIALS FOR CONFERENCES

Materials developed for knowledge dissemination at conferences fall into one of the four categories below, which are then organized by the alphabetical order of the creator(s)'s names.

Conference Papers and Presentations [top]
Author(s)
Title
Name & Place of Event(s)
Date
Balka, E.
Building Health Public Policy/Best Practices Technology and Health Literacy:
Opportunities and Challenges: Using the Internet as a tool.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 19, 2004
Balka, E. &
Kahnamoui, N.
Mid-Main Meets the Electronic Patient Record: Socio-Technical
Aspects of an EPR Implementation at a Community Clinic.
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

EASST Conference
2004.

Public Proofs – Science, Technology and Democracy. Paris, France
August 25-28, 2004
Balka, E. Socio-Technical Challenges in Constructing Continuity of Care: Reflections on Two System Development Projects. Continuity of Care Workshop
Held in conjunction with HelsIT - HelseInformatikkuka i Trondheim
Trondheim, Norway
September 28, 2005
Balka, E.
The Role of Health Information
Technologies and the Implications for Practice and Policy.
Plenary speaker, Building a
Shared Vision, Anticipating for the Future Health Care Visioning Conference
June 22, 2004
Balka, E.
Work on the Wards: Work Practice Research about IT in
Health.
Healthy Citizens? The Health Information Highway, Exclusions and Equity: Canadian Communication
Association Annual Conference.
London, Ontario
June 3, 2005
Bella, L. &
Bishop, R.
Community Capacity Development: A Framework for
Understanding the Contribution of
Community Access Computers at MacMorran Community Centres to Community Capacity, Literacy and Health.
Canadian Conference on
Literacy and Health, CPHA. Ottawa, Ontario
October 17-19,
2004
Bella, L. & Harris, R.
Equity and Empowerment?
What's Really Achieved by
Providing Public Access to Consumer Health.
Healthy Citizens? The Health Information Highway, Exclusions and
Equity: Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference.
London, Ontario
June 3, 2005
Bella, L. & Kearley, M.
Re-imagining Community
Development: The role of Community Access Computers in Community Capacity
Building.
Canadian Association of
Schools of Social Work
Conference (CASSW)
May, 2005
Bella, L.,
MacDonald, G. & Walsh, R.
Capacity Development and the
Urban CAP Programme at
MacMorran Community Centre.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 17-19,
2004
Bella, L.,
Macinni, W., Mitchelmore, V., Morgan, J., & St. Croix, H.
Using the Internet to Promote Rural Health: Towards Capacity Development for Non-Profit Health Agencies.

Sixth Conference of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society.
Quebec City, Quebec

October 27-29,
2005
Boulus, N
Electronic Patient Records through the Critical Theory of
Technology.
Simon Fraser University’s
3rd Annual Graduate
Conference.
Burnaby, BC
January 14, 2005
Boulus, N.
Reflection on Actor-Network Theory and Critical Theory of
Technology: The case of the Electronic Patient Records.
ICTs and Health: Canadian
Communication Association Annual Conference.
London, Ontario
June 3, 2005
Boulus, N.
The Travel to the Hidden Lives of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference.
Pasadena, California

October 20-22, 2005
Boulus, N.
Making Things Work: On Being an Academic Researcher Working with a Community Partner
4th International Conference on Urban Health: Achieving Social Justice in Urban Communities.
Toronto, Ontario
October 26-28, 2005
Boulus, N.
Reconstructing Constructivism: Moving Away from the Commitment to the Social to the Study of Associations
Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference.
Toronto, Ontario
June 1-3, 2006
Feng, P.
Desperately Seeking Standards: The Quest for a Pan-Canadian
Electronic Health Record.
2nd international conference on Information Technology in Health Care (ITHC): Socio-technical Approaches. Portland, Oregon.
September 2004
Feng, P.
Examining the Role of Standards in Canadian Health Care Policy.
Joint meeting of the European Association for Studies of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies
of Science.
Paris, France.
August 2004
Feng, P.
Mapping the Development of
Electronic Health Records in Canada: An Example of
Technical Standardization in
Action (Poster Presentation).
Gordon Research
Conference on New Frontiers in Science and Technology Policy.
Big Sky, MT.
August 2004
Harris, R.
A Report on Rural Ontario Women Seeking Health
Information.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 18, 2004
Harris, R. & Veinot, T.
The Empowerment Model and Using e-Health to Distribute
Information.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 18, 2004
Harris, R.
The Politics of Care in Librarianship: The Future of Women’s Work in a Wired World.
Ontario Library Association
SuperConference
Toronto, Ontario
February 5, 2005
Harris, R.
The Role of Libraries in Canada’s Health Infostructure.
British Columbia Library
Association Annual Conference.
Burnaby, British Columbia
April 22, 2005
Harris, R.
ACTION for Health: An international research initiative to
explore the role of information
technology in the public consumption of health information.
Canadian Library Association 60th Annual Conference and Trade Show.
Calgary, Alberta
June 19, 2005
Harris, R. & Veinot, T.
Health information seeking in an (almost) wired world: What do
rural dwellers do with health information from the Internet?
Canadian Rural Health
Research Society.
Quebec City, Quebec
October 27-29,
2005
Jensen, C. B.
Implementing the Wireless Nursing Call System.
Santa Clara University

University of California
Center for Cultural Studies
Santa Cruz, California
May 13-19, 2005
Krajnak, J.
There is a Whole Lot of Searching Goin' On: Health
Information Seeking Practices of
Canadians.
Healthy Citizens? The
Health Information Highway, Exclusions and Equity: Canadian Communication
Association Annual
Conference.
London, Ontario
June 3, 2005
Krajnak, J.
Empowering the Public through Web-Based Health Information:
Evaluation Results from British
Columbia.
Canadian Public Health
Association Conference
September, 2005
Krajnak, J.
Sustaining Equal and Timely Access for All: Reflections &
Lessons Learned from a Provincial Health Information Program Evaluation. (Poster
Presentation).
Canadian Public Health
Association Conference
September, 2005
McCulloch, A.
Vancouver Public Library Patrons' Health Information-Seeking on the Internet: Oriented to Orienteering towards Better Health
Canadian Public Health Association Annual Conference
May 31, 2006
McCulloch, A.
On-Line Health Information Seeking Through an Urban Public Library: Mapping Relationships for Understanding and Technological Change
Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference
June 2, 2006
Simpson, L. & Penn, D.
Making Connections: A Capacity Building Approach to Health
and Well Being.
International Conference
on Engaging Communities,
Brisbane, Australia
August, 2005
Simpson, L., Wood,
L., Stockwell, M.,
Leggat, S. & Penn,
D.
Making Connections: A capacity building approach to health
literacy.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 19, 2004
Smith, K.
The User Experience: Seeking Health Information Online.
Graduate Masters Session:
Canadian Communication
Association Annual
Conference.
London, Ontario
June 2, 2005
Reidle, C. & Tolar, M.
Ordering Systems in Health Care

Alpine Ski Seminar on Information Systems (ALPIS)
Carisolo, Trento, Italy

February 10-15, 2006
Rootman , I. &
Ronson, B.
Literacy and Health Research in Canada: Where have we been
and where should we go? International Think Tank on
Reducing Health Disparities and
Promoting Equity for Vulnerable
Populations.
Sponsored by the Canadian
Institute for Health Research. Ottawa, Ontario
September 21-23, 2003
Rootman, I.
Health Literacy and Lifelong Learning: Toward a Conceptual
Framework.
National Chronic Disease
Conference.
Ottawa, Ontario
November 8,
2004
Rootman, I.,
Frankish, J. &
Hemming, H.
Workshop on the Impact of the
National Literacy and Health Research Project.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 19, 2004
Rootman, I.
Panel on Implications of the IOM Health Literacy Report for Canada.
Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health. Staying the Course: Literacy and Health in the First Decade.
Ottawa, Ontario
October 18, 2004

Rootman, I.
Health Literacy, Learning and Obesity.
CIHR-INMD Advisory Committee.
Vancouver
February 18, 2005
Rootman, I. Determinants of Health and Health Literacy. Chronic Disease Collaborative.
Victoria, British Columbia
December 16, 2004
Veinot, Tiffany

Rural Women and HIV/AIDS Information Exchange in Canada
World Congress on Health Information and Libraries Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
September 20-23, 2005

 

Roundtable Discussions [top]
Author(s)
Title
Name & Place of Event(s)
Date
Armstrong, H., Armstrong, P. & Balka, E.
Roundtable: Modernizing Health Care: Perils and Prospects
Canadian Political Science Association.
London Ontario
June 4, 2005

 

Workshops Organized by ACTION for Health [top]
Organizer(s)
Title
Name & Place of Event(s)
Date
Jensen, C. B. & Zuiderent-Jerak, T.
Practices of Assessment and Intervention in Action-Oriented Science and Technology Studies Workshop .
Amsterdam, Netherlands
25-26 April, 2005
Balka, E. & Wagner, I. Reconfiguring Healthcare: Issues in Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare Environments. Workshop held in conjunction with the European Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference.
Paris, France
September 19, 2005
Balka, E. & Wagner, I.
Work Practice Research and Information Technology Development in Hospital and Community Health Care Settings.
Workshop held in conjunction with CSCW 2004: ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Chicago, Illinois
November 7, 2004

 


Papers Published in Workshop Proceedings (refereed and non-refereed) [top]
Author(s)
Title
Name & Place of Event
Date
Balka, E.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
Fragmented Views from the Field: Reflections on Field
Observations of Computerized Health Sector Work.

Work practice research and information technology development in hospital and community health care settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
Nov 7, 2004
Balka, E.
Disparate interests, common goals? Moving an action oriented health technology assessment agenda forward in Canada.
Practices of Assessment
and Intervention in Action-
Oriented Science and
Technology Studies
Workshop.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 25 – 26,
2005
Balka, E.

The Production of Health indicators as Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Reflections on the Multiple Roles of Electronic Health Records.

Reconfiguring Healthcare: Issues in Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare Environments.

Workshop held in conjunction with the European Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference
Paris, France
September 19, 2005
Boulus, N.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
Position Paper for Chicago Workshop.
Work practice research and
information technology
development in hospital and community health care
settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
Nov 7, 2004
Gibson, E.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
Liability and Jurisdictional Legal
Issues in Technology and Health
Information.
Work practice research and
information technology
development in hospital and community health care
settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
Nov 7, 2004
Jensen, C. B.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
Position Paper for the Chicago Workshop.
Work practice research and
information technology
development in hospital and community health care
settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
Nov 7, 2004
Jensen, C. B.
Sorting Attachments: On intervention and usefulness in STS and health policy.
Practices of Assessment and Intervention in Action-Oriented Science and Technology Studies Workshop.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 25 – 26,
2005
Kuziemsky, C. & Lau, F.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
Social (Re)Construction of Work Practices in Palliative Care.
Work practice research and
information technology
development in hospital and community health care
settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
November 7,
2004
Wagner, I.

Editors: Ellen Balka & Ina Wagner
On the difficulties of talking about
standardization.
Work Practice Research and Information Technology Development in Hospital and
Community Health Care
Settings.

Workshop held in
conjunction with CSCW 2004 Chicago, USA
November 7,
2004

 


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