[NORSLIS] WIS 2018 Call for Papers

[Ágústa Pálsdóttir]

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

University of Turku and the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association organize the seventh Well-Being in the Information Society (WIS) 2018 conference in Turku, Finland 27-29. August 2018. 

 

See more on WIS 2018 in  <http://www.wis.fi> www.wis.fi

 

The overreaching topic of the 2018 conference is

 

WIS 2018 – Fighting inequalities

 

SUGGESTED TOPICS

We want to focus on sustainable systemic solutions to urban health problems and issues in this year’s conference, giving priority to multidisciplinary contributions. Issues of interest include but are not limited to:

 

HEALTH

*       Health inequalities

*       Health system differences

*       Health and digital divide

*       Sustainable e- and m-health

WORK

*       Public-private partnerships in health

*       Safe working environment 

*       Digital workplace

*       Ubiquitous work

WEALTH

*       Social inequalities

*       Segmentation and polarization of society

*       Barriers and drivers of health and social equality

DIGITAL WORLD

*       Inclusive system design

*       Promises of digitalization for well-being

*       Digital Divide

*       Developing and maintaining health systems

 

FORMATS AND PUBLICATIONS

All accepted conference papers will be published in Springer series CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

Take a look at the WIS 2016 proceedings:  <http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319446714> http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319446714

Best papers as further developed versions are published also in a special Issue of International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijtmcp

 

Papers are in two forms: full papers and abstracts. Contributions in both categories are submitted in ready form.  Please submit your paper through the link in the conference website  <http://www.wis.fi> www.wis.fi

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission                                               31.03.2018

Notification of acceptance                                           10.05.2018

Final versions and author registration                        10.06.2018

 

ORGANIZERS

University of Turku and Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association – WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Health in the Baltic Region in co-operation with Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of Applied Sciences and the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare.

 

If you do have any inquiries do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Please feel free to circulate this further to potential interested recipients.

 

Looking forward to see you in Turku in August 2018!

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listar.hi.is/pipermail/norslis/attachments/20171215/7af41f1f/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 5305 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listar.hi.is/pipermail/norslis/attachments/20171215/7af41f1f/attachment-0001.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Call for papers WIS 2018.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 243553 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listar.hi.is/pipermail/norslis/attachments/20171215/7af41f1f/attachment-0001.pdf>