The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil.

After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, and online citizen participation. The second part is dedicated to internet health audiences by analyzing the cases of patients, the young, and the elderly seeking and sharing health information online, especially in virtual communities. The third part is dedicated to the challenges that the expansion of the internet in healthcare poses to all of us, such as the evaluation of the quality of health information available online and the prevention of the risks involved with online sales, cyberbullying, and consumption of prescription medicines. The fourth presents some innovative e-learning experiences carried out with different groups in Brazil, while the fifth part analyses some practical applications involving the Internet and health, including studies on M-Health, the Internet of things, serious games and the use of new information and communication technologies in health promotion. The last chapter analyses the future of healthcare in the Internet Age.

The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders and others interested in better understanding the trends and the different challenges related to the social phenomenon of the internet in health.

Chapter 1 Internet and Health in Brazil: Trends and Challenges

Chapter 2 An Introduction to the History of the Internet: A Brazilian Perspective
Chapter 3 The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet: A Pioneering Experience in Internet Governance
Chapter 4 Piraí Digital: A Pioneering Experience in Digital Inclusion
Chapter 5 Civil Society and Online Citizen Participation: A Case Study of the Nossas Cidades Network
Chapter 6 Internet, Expert Patient and Empowerment: Activity Profiles in Virtual Communities of Chronic Kidney Patients
Chapter 7 Digital Natives and Health: An Exploratory Study with Young Brazilians of Different Socioeconomic Profiles
Chapter 8 Access and Use of Information and Communication Technologies to Promote Active Ageing: For What? For Whom?
Chapter 9 Health in the Social Network: an Exploratory Study of the Fan Page "Melhor com Saúde" ("Better with Health")
Chapter 10 Evaluation of the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: An Analysis of Brazilian Initiatives
Chapter 11 Children and Adolescents on the Internet: A Current Profile of Risks in Brazil
Chapter 12 Bullying and Cyberbullying: Conceptual Controversy in Brazil
Chapter 13 Brazil and the United States' Internet-Based Medicines
Chapter 14 E-Learning and Problematizing Pedagogies: A Brazilian Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation Teaching
Chapter 15 Massive Open Online Health Courses (MOOCs): Brazilian Initiatives
Chapter 16 Digital Interactive Education and Educational Resources for Enhancing the Training of Health Professional - 20 Years of Experience in the Discipline of Telemedicine in the Pathology Department at University of São Paulo Medical School (1997 - 2017)
Chapter 17 Digital Inclusion of Health Workers in Goiás State: An Account of an Educational Initiative
Chapter 18 mHealth: Smart Wearable Devices and the Challenges of a Refractory Context
Chapter 19 The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Health Promotion: Brazilian Initiatives
Chapter 20 Games and Health Communication: Brazilian Players' Point of View
Chapter 21 Move and be Healthy!": Performative Sensibility and Body Experiences Mediated by Wearable Devices in Brazil
Chapter 22 The Future of Healthcare: The Impact of Digitalization on Healthcare Services Performance.