This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of contributors
• PART 1 Underpinnings of eHealth
• 1 Introducing eHealth - Lisette (J.E.W.C.) van Gemert-Pijnen, Hanneke Kip, Saskia M. Kelders and Robbert Sanderman
• 2 Psychological principles and health behaviour change: applications to eHealth - Jane Walsh and Eimear Morrissey
• 3 Opportunities of technology to promote health and well-being - Saskia M. Kelders and Matthew Howard
• 4 Healthcare as a complex adaptive system - H. Dominic Covvey
• 5 Mental health and eHealth technology - Stephen M. Schueller
• 6 Public health, behavioural medicine and eHealth technology - Rik Crutzen, Rosalie van der Vaart, Andrea Evers and Christina Bode
• PART 2 eHealth development, implementation and evaluation
• 7 Holistic development of eHealth technology - Hanneke Kip and Lisette (J.E.W.C.) van Gemert-Pijnen
• 8 The contextual inquiry - Hanneke Kip, Nienke Beerlage-de Jong and Jobke Wentzel
• 9 Value proposition design and business modelling - Bart Nieuwenhuis
• 10 Human-centred design - Catherine Burns
• 11 Persuasive health technology - Lisette (J.E.W.C.) van Gemert-Pijnen, Saskia M. Kelders, Nienke Beerlage-de Jong and Harri Oinas-Kukkonen
• 12 The complexity of eHealth implementation: a theoretical and practical perspective - Marcel Pieterse, Hanneke Kip and Roberto R. Cruz-Martínez
• 13 User engagement - Stefano Triberti, Saskia M. Kelders and Andrea Gaggioli
• 14 Evaluating eHealth - Floor Sieverink, Nadine Köhle, Ken Cheung, Anne Roefs, Hester Trompetter, Julia Keizer, Annemarie Braakman-Jansen and Saskia M. Kelders
• 15 The future of eHealth, technology and psychology - Lisette (J.E.W.C.) van Gemert-Pijnen
• Glossary