Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts for the section 12
“Coordination work and care practices in the use of telehealth in chronic
care settings” at the ESA RN16 – Sociology of Health & Medicine Mid-Term
Conference (Universidade de Évora, Portugal, 11-12 June 2025).
Session Description:
Session 12: Coordination work and care practices in the use of telehealth in
chronic care settings
Session convenors: Barbara Sena, Ivan Galligani (University of Bergamo),
Giampietro Gobo (University of Milan)
Telehealth or telemedicine is now globally recognised as a strategic approach
to support healthcare systems to deal with the challenges of an ageing
population, increasing chronic diseases, relative shortage of staff and
steadily rising healthcare expenditure (WHO 2010; Hashiguchi 2020). It should:
facilitate access to care services, particularly in remote or rural areas,
reduce care delivery costs (bringing down travel requirements), shorten
waiting times and filter improper access to hospital facilities, thus qualify
itself as one of the pillars for strengthening territorial care and primary
care. Nevertheless, the spread of telemedicine services is still extremely
fragmented, in terms of geographical areas (even within the same Country),
pathologies involved, and therapeutic applications; and in most cases these
services are still ‘in the process of consolidation’. To explain this
situation, the literature highlights a multiplicity of barriers and hindering
factors situated at various operational levels (Carrasqueiro et al. 2017;
Hashiguchi 2020; Saigi-Rubiò et al. 2022). One of the principal reasons for
the delay of telehealth uptake lies in the poor recognition that the adoption
of a new technological service requires 'artful integration' (Karasti &
Syrjänen 2004) by the users, with the joint and coordinated activation of
institutional, medical, social, organisational, individual and family
processes and practices as well.
Theoretical and empirical papers are invited to unpack telehealth processes
(within the broader field of e-health), focusing on their enactment in
practice, drawing on, particularly, but not exclusively, on issues such as:
- How behaviour and attitudes in medical and professional practice,
patient-doctor relationships and inter-professional communication, change with
the use of telemedicine, especially in primary and integrated care services.
- How policies of telemedicine have favoured or, conversely, hindered the
development of bottom-up telehealth services;
- How health services change their practices and approach to care with the
introduction of telemedicine services.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 JANUARY 2025
Submission Process
Abstracts must be submitted in English and consist of:
a) Title
b) Keywords (maximum four)
b) Abstract (max. 300 words)
c) Author (s) name, affiliation, and email address
d) Session number and name
The abstracts should be sent to
rn16midtermconf@gmail.com ; and conference organizers: Ana Patrícia Hilário
( patriciahilario@gmail.com) and Catarina
Delaunay (
catarinadelaunay@fcsh.unl.pt).
For further details, please see the Conference website:
https://www.rn16midtermconf2025.uevora.pt/page/
Best wishes,
Barbara Sena, Ivan Galligani, Giampietro Gobo
_____________________________________
Prof. Barbara Sena (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor of General Sociology
Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication
University of Bergamo
Via Pignolo, 123 - 24129 Bergamo (Italy)
Floor 3, Room 304
email: barbara.sena@
unibg.it
Recent publications
- Sena B. (2024). The silent health social movement of traditional,
complementary and integrative medicine in political contention with Western
evidence-based biomedicine. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 4/2024, pp.
771-802, DOI: 10.1423/115301
- Sena B. (con De Luca E.) (2024). La dimensione spirituale nelle pratiche di
cura del fine vita. Limiti da superare e modelli da implementare, Salute e
Società, 1/2024, pp. 83-100. DOI: 10.3280/SES2024-001006
- Sena B. (2023). The Case Study in Social Research. History, Methods and
Applications. London, Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Case-Study-in-Social-Research-History-Methods-a
nd-Applications/Sena/p/book/9781032331164
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