CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Submission Deadline: Proposals due August 15, 2015; Full chapters

due December 15, 2015

Healthy Community Synergism between

Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers
A book edited by Dr. Valerie Bryan (Florida Atlantic University) and
Dr. Jennifer Lynne Bird (Florida Atlantic University)
To be published by IGI Global:
Objective of the Book
The overall objective of this publication is to bridge the gap between the
fields of education, medicine, and community engagement at various levels.
If patients, practitioners, and researchers utilize more collaborative efforts in
dealing with health issues, those conversations may lead to new ideas and
new solutions for healthy communities. This book will discuss the positive
contributions to individual communities and society as a whole when
practitioners, patients, and researchers from different fields work together
for the common good of helping others. While this book will not be a
substitute for a visit with a medical practitioner, it will encourage readers to
think about their own self-care and that of those for whom they care.
Synergism is when the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual
effects. If practitioners, patients, and researchers collaborate, we can create
health systems that are greater than the sum of the whole. This approach
coupled with interdisciplinary research will combine medicine and other
fields to help the patient, practitioner and researchers to become
collaborators. Using journal writing, reflection, self-efficacy strategies, grief
therapies, stress reduction) and other like strategies to address disorienting
events and to stay ahead of the pain, creates innovative practices from
research-based approaches and encourages the practice of reflection to
evaluate existing health systems and design new ones.
This book will feature chapters from educators and health professionals who
have designed unique, innovative, and eclectic approaches to health
education. The narrative thread in this book will focus on patient education,
but will also address the physicians' need to alter their communication
strategies to reach patients. Chapter authors will share innovative,
interdisciplinary research to enhance the field of health education.
Potential Topics:
Potential chapters could include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

health literacy and patient advocacy;

quality of life issues (e.g., health, crime, illiteracy, poverty, isolation);
accessibility, safety, and accountability for medical patients;
self-health management, self-efficacy and self-regulated health;
the intersection of health and technology usage for various racial
groups or age cohorts;
the use of adult learning strategies to actively deal with chronic
illnesses;
elder financial fraud, abuse, and exploitation of individuals living in the
community or in residential care facilities
successful aging attributes at various life stages
community -based learning for underserved aged learners
role of self-efficacy and aging and its impact on recovery from illnesses
role of formal, nonformal and informal learning in health education for
patients and practitioners
role of overload and operational stress (workload, stress, cognitive
burden) on cognitive health, sleep, and health
health views across international borders
role of adult learning in coping with catastrophic illnesses
impact of sleep deprivation on weight gain
weight gain differences based on varied age cohorts or periods in
American history or comparison to other cultures
role of self-efficacy and self-directed learning in catastrophic illnesses
(Lupus, cancer, etc.)
role of community education in creating safe communities
the impact of illiteracy levels on healthy communities
the impact of spirituality and other coping measures on recovery time
from illnesses
health coaching
journal writing as healing
use of assistive technology in healing

Submission Procedure
- Deadline for initial draft of chapters: December 15, 2015,
although you may submit a chapter any time before this date.
Chapters will be peer reviewed and returned on or before January 30,
2016. If your chapter is accepted for publication, you will receive
additional instructions and a timeline for revising your chapter before
the final due date. Chapters will be approximately 12,000 words.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group

Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science

Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This
publication is anticipated to be released in 2017.
Important Dates
August 15, 2015:
December 15, 2015:
January 30, 2016:
March 30, 2016:

Proposal Submission Deadline

Full Chapter Submission
Review Results Returned
Final Chapter Submission

APA Guidelines
Your chapter will be in APA format. Please remember it is not the
responsibility of the editors or the reviewers to make APA corrections for you,
so your in-text citations and reference sections must be in APA format at the
time your final chapter is submitted. This also applies to online citations.
Visit https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ if you need help with APA format.
Key Terms:
After your reference section, please list 7-10 key terms mentioned in your
chapter and their definitions to be used in a glossary for the book.
Authors
Chapters may be authored by a single author or may be a writing
collaboration between two or more authors. For collaborations, choose one
author to be the contact person to submit all writing to the editors and
receive all communication from the editors.
Proposals may be submitted directly to the editors at
birdjennifer@bellsouth.net. Authors of accepted proposals will be required to
establish a free account with IGI and submit chapters directly to the
publisher. Once your proposal is accepted, you will receive specific
information of how to submit your chapter electronically.