Fifth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Health and Wellness in the Age of Big Data’

Universidad de Alcalá
Madrid, Spain
3-4 September 2015

2015 Special Theme: Health and Wellness in the Age of Big Data

It is now commonly argued that we have entered the age of “big data” and “the quantified self.” In the practice and study of health and wellness, the question of “big data” turns our attention not only to the integration of data collected formally by medical professionals, but also the aggregation of isolated silos of personal data collected incidental to everyday life activity. These “informal” personal data sets are captured by, for example, wearable devices, smartphone apps, sensors, and web-based diagnosis applications. How do these relate to and integrate with the digitization and networking of silos of traditional “formal” data, including event-based information from medical clinics, hospital records and national health and medical databases?

The collection, aggregation and “shareability” of these informal and formal data points present a great opportunity for the practices of, and research into, health and wellness. How might this data assist in the development of new approaches to medical practice and research, a new collective intelligence for health professionals as well as the general public? However, great concerns are also expressed in relation to these developments, based on the following series of questions: Who is “generating” this data? Who is “owning” this data? Who has the right to “share” this data? These questions about the nature of our technologically-mediated social futures are now at the forefront of research, practice, and teaching about health and wellness.

How do we harness the potentials, and mitigate the dangers of the age of big data?

Conference Themes

2015 Conference Registration includes
One-Year Membership to the Health and Wellness Knowledge Community

Details of Themes

Theme 1: The Physiology, Kinesiology, and Psychology of Wellness in its Social Context

On the dimensions of wellness in body and mind.

• Fundamental concepts of wellness: “goods,” “bads,” “shoulds”
• The psychology of wellness
• Health promoting behaviors
• Health risk appraisals, screenings, and interventions
• The measurement of wellness
• Evaluations of long-term impacts of health and wellness programs
• Health and wellness with disabilities
• Disability support services and independent living
• Physical fitness, aging, and the effects on health and wellness
• Health related fitness programs
• Physical fitness and its role in mental health
• Physical activity, self esteem, and wellness
• Health, fitness and media-driven concepts of beauty
• Media influences on health risk behaviors

Keywords: Health, Wellness, Physiology, Kinesiology, Psychology, Disabilities, Fitness

Theme 2: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

On the systematic study of human health.

• Cross-disciplinary and professional perspectives: medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, physical therapies, dietetics, social work, counseling, sports science
• Health technologies
• Home healthcare workers role in wellness
• Integration of complementary and alternative medicine into a health system
• Nutriceuticals and supplements for health
• Genome sciences, chronic disease prevention
• Personalized medicine
• The increasing role of psychological drugs
• The business of unwellness and the negative health industries
• Biomedical aging research
• Immunobiological research
• Epigenetics research
• Ancestry and health, traits, and diseases
• Regenerative medicine
• Biomedical occupational health and safety

Keywords: Health, Wellness, Interdisciplinarity, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Physical Therapies, Dietetics, Social Work, Counseling, Sports Science, Technologies, Genomics, Aging, Regenerative Medicine

Theme 3: Public Health Policies and Practices

On community responsibilities to foster wellness and proactive health policies and practices.

• Public health and communications technologies
• Sustainable innovation strategies in public health
• Global public health development and sustainability
• Public health provider development
• Public health and disease prevention
• Healthcare reform impacts
• New and emerging public health and safety risks
• Biosafety and biosecurity
• Acquired infections and health workers
• Environmental threats to health and wellness
• Community environmental health planning
• Occupational health and safeties role in health and wellness
• The food industry and government (FDA) food policy
• Immunization programs and serum banking
• Global availability of vaccines, the supply chain and supply economics
• Racial, ethnic, gender, socio-economic, and rural disparities in healthcare
• Life balance, health and wellness within community cultures
• The economics of health and wellness in society
• Poverty, health and wellness
• Infant and child health
• Social determinations of health and wellness
• Health, wellness and the effects of social exclusion
• The environment, quality of life and wellness.
• Urbanization in developing countries: environmental health impacts
• WHO policies on world nutrition
• Child food insecurity

Keywords: Health, Wellness, Public Policy, Public Health, Disease Prevention, Food Policy, Safety, Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Community Health, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Socio-Economic Differences, Rural Health, Poverty, Exclusion, Urbanization, Child Health, Infant Health

Theme 4: Health Promotion and Education

On informal and formal health education.

• Promotion of health and well being
• Health literacy
• School physical education curriculum and its effects on health
• Wellness coaching and fitness for improved health
• Health education for non-literate populations
• Web-based health education
• Information technologies in healthcare
• Health and wellness in the workplace
• Health, life expectancy and the cost of living longer
• New and emerging health and safety risks
• Occupational health and safety education and training
• Institutional influences on health and wellness
• Quality of life, spirituality and wellness
• Nutrition for health and wellness
• The food linkage to unwellness
• Obesity in affluent societies
• Family mealtime patterns, child feeding practices and their effects on health

Keywords: Health, Wellness, Safety, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Health Education, Health Curriculum, Fitness Programs, Life Expectancy, Occupational Health and Safety, Spirituality, Family

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