Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM001.
Introduction: Promoting health and physical activity in the workplace is advocated by public health institutions across the globe. There is a need to find effective ways to understand the determinants of participation in physical activity in order to outline appropriate communication strategies to promote physical activity behaviour change in the workplace setting. E-mails and text messages...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM009.
Medical decisions are paradigmatically uncertain. Awareness of this uncertainty at the policy level has produced a strict regulation of the information exchange related to medical issues, e.g. by means of the institute of the informed consent or through tight administrative norms regulating the pharmaceutical communication towards the public. As a special support of such sort of information,...
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In: Empirical economics, 2012, vol. 42, no. 2, p. 471-486
Because of bacterial resistance, current antibiotic consumption is reinforced by past use, and future utility is lower. The purpose of this article is to provide evidence on habit and addictive behavior toward antibiotics by exploring variations in the average consumption of antibiotics across 20 Italian regions. Using a balanced panel data set (2000–2009), we estimate myopic and rational...
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In: User modelling and user-adapted interaction, 2011, vol. 21, p. 485-511
The aim of this article is to describe the design and development of an online gymnasium that proposes personalized exercise videos to users affected by fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons, usually associated with sleep disorders and fatigue. Physical exercise is considered as an important component of...
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In: Journal of computer-mediated communication, 2010, vol. 15, no. 4, p. 625-645
A website was designed in order to help patients with chronic lower back pain (cLBP) to cope with their condition, relying on the concept of health literacy. A sample of 748 chronic or potentially chronic LBP patients were asked to regularly visit the site for a period of 12 months. The intervention was evaluated quantitatively (both preuse and postuse surveys, logfiles) and qualitatively....
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In: Health policy, 2009, vol. 92, no. 2-3, p. 187-196
Internet and e-commerce have profoundly changed society, the economy, and the world of health care. The web offers opportunities to improve health, but it may also represent a big health hazard since it is a basically unregulated market with very low consumer protection. In this paper we analyze marketing and pricing strategies of online pharmacies (OPs). Our analysis shows that OPs use...
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In: Health communication, 2010/25/6/7/548-551
An essay is provided on developments in the field of health communication in Europe. The authors believe that the field of health communication is at its very beginnings in Europe compared to the status of health communication in the U.S. The authors draw this conclusion based on several factors including the existence of relevant journals, professional societies, and university-level...
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In: Patient education and counseling, 2007, vol. 67, no. 3, p. 261-266
Many people are concerned about their family history of breast cancer, and are anxious about the possibility of developing breast cancer themselves. The majority of these people are likely not to be at significantly increased risk of developing inherited breast cancer. All women are at risk of developing sporadic breast cancer, and this risk increases with age. The UK National Institute of Health...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM005.
A consistent branch of research in health communication has been focused on the study of the pharmacist - patient relationship. In past decades, the pharmacist and his role in the health care setting has shifted from a product oriented approach, where the primary focus was the production and compound of medicines, to a more patient oriented approach, with main focus becoming the understanding and...
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In: Health Policy, 2006, vol. 78, no. 1, p. 77-92
This paper investigates the determinants of regional variations in outpatient antibiotic consumption using Swiss data. The analysis contributes to the debate on appropriate antibiotic use by improving the understanding of its determinants, and may help to define more effective health care policies to reduce the resistance phenomenon. Findings suggest that Switzerland exhibits relatively low...
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