CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTER

Proposals (individual papers, posters, workshops and colloquia) are invited on all areas of
the conference, including the following themes:

• Client-professional Encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses,
pharmacists, psychotherapists etc)
• Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
• Communication Skills Training and Problem-based Learning
• Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
• Ethics and Communication
• Health and Disability
• Health and the Lifespan
• Health Literacy
• Identities and Experiences of Illness
• Interprofessional Communication and Hospital Management Systems
• Media and Health Communication
• Medical Education
• Nature of Evidence in Diagnosis and Non-Diagnosis
• Public Understanding of Health and Illness
• Tailoring Health Messages
• Quality of Life and Quality of Care
• Role of Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
• Representation of the Body
• (Shared) Decision Making
• Telemedicine and Mediated Healthcare Delivery
• Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice

Individual paper/poster proposals should be within 250 words, and proposals for colloquia
and workshops
should be within 500 words.