Power and agency in health information technology: Towards a more meaningful participatory design for sustainable development

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1036-1041

  Mushtaq, Usman ^a   Hall, Kevin ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Community health workers; Component; Health information technology; Lay design; Participatory design; Power awareness; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; LAY DESIGN; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; POWER AWARENESS;

DESIGN; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77952708224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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