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Dear Madam or Sir, Re: Call For Book Chapter submission: Innovations in Consumer Participation and Engagement with Health Systems Health care systems globally are moving away from paternalistic practices and increasingly implementing principles of consumer participation and engagement with health systems, which entails the right by health consumers such as patients, carers and volunteers to be involved in decision making processes in health systems in relation to, for example, research, policy development and self-care for chronic diseases. There is an underlying assumption that through engaging with consumers and the community that there will be at least some level of power transfer and contribution to decision-making processes, as well as improved health care and research outcomes. Although the evidence to support consumer and community engagement in direct care and organisational design and governance is compelling, there were few comparative studies and evaluations of consumer and community engagement methods that would be transferable to all health service contexts. Flaws in current approaches to consumer engagement and participation in health systems in areas such as consumer feedback include: lack of reliable and valid patient feedback data; infrequent assessment of patient feedback; and how collected feedback is used to drive health‐care improvements. In the health research sphere, benefits of consumer participation and engagement to the public include: research being conducted that is relevant to community needs; public awareness of, and support for, science and research, and more effective translation of research to deliver improved health outcomes. Benefits to researchers and research institutions include: increased community relevance, through improved research priorities and projects informed by consumer and community perspectives and lived experiences, and public confidence in research through improved openness and transparency in the conduct of research. Nevertheless, tokenism characterizes many initiatives to adequately engage consumers as research participants. Thus the need for Innovations in Consumer Participation and Engagement with Health Systems suggests itself. In an effort to harness the most transferable best practices, IGI Global has recently commissioned a textbook titled Innovations in Consumer Participation and Engagement with Health Systems. One of the aims of this textbook is to advance consumer experience to the forefront of health innovation in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations. The potential for consumers to be involved in innovation and value co-creation in health care extends beyond the historical role of self-care to contemporary domains such as research and volunteering. Value is co-created if and when a consumer is able to personalize his or her experience in using an organization’s services or products and in undertaking tasks the organisation gives them, as well as in self-care and carer roles. This book will be of particular interest to academic researchers, policy makers, graduate students, consumer advocacy groups, health systems policy makers and health administrators with consumer engagement and participation roles. You are cordially invited to share your research to be featured in this book by submitting a chapter proposal/abstract using the link on the formal call for papers page: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3833 . Recommended topics for papers include, but are not limited to: • Ethics of consumer participation and engagement with health systems • Consumer value co-creation in health systems • Consumer advocates and health innovation • Emerging technologies for facilitating consumer participation and engagement with health systems • Consumer participation and engagement as volunteers • Consumer participation and engagement as research participants • Consumer participation and engagement as carers • Consumer participation and engagement in policy development • Consumer participation and engagement in self-care • Evaluation of Consumer participation and engagement in health systems IMPORTANT DATES: Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019; Full Chapters Due: May 15, 2019 Note: There are no publication fees, however, contributors will be requested to provide a courtesy to their fellow colleagues by serving as a peer reviewer for this project for at least 2-3 articles. This will ensure the highest level of integrity and quality for the publication. Should you have any questions regarding this publication, or this invitation, please do not hesitate to contact: Courtney Tychinski, via [email protected] Professor Niyi Awofeso, PhD Book Editor |
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| [1] consumer participation book 2019 : : Innovations in Consumer Participation and Engagement with Health Systems |
