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1 Publications March 2016 Kristina Eriksson-Backa Articles in international refereed journals: Ginman, Mariam & Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2001). Information empowered health consciousness. Health Informatics Journal 7(3/4) 2001: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2003). Who uses the Web as a health information source? Health Informatics Journal 9(2) 2003: Ginman, Mariam; Ek, Stefan; Eriksson-Backa, Kristina; Mustonen, Margit; Torkkola, Sinikka; Tuominen, Kimmo & Wikgren, Marianne (2003). Health communication and knowledge construction. Health Informatics Journal 9(4) 2003: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2005). Active acquisition or passive reception: health information literacy among fifty Finns in differing health situations. Studies in Communication Sciences 5(2): Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2008). Access to health information perceptions of barriers among elderly in a language minority. Information Research 13(4), paper368. Available at Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2010). Elderly people, health information, and libraries: a small-scale study on seniors in a language minority. Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services 60(2): Niemelä, Raimo, Ek, Stefan, Eriksson-Backa, Kristina & Huotari, Maija-Leena (2012). A screening tool for assessing everyday health information literacy. Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services 62(2): Eriksson-Backa, Kristina, Ek, Stefan, Niemelä, Raimo & Huotari, Maija-Leena. (2012). Health information literacy in everyday life: a study of Finns aged 65 to 79 years. Health Informatics Journal 18(2): Ek, Stefan, Eriksson-Backa, Kristina & Niemelä Raimo (2013). Use of and trust in health information on the Internet: A nationwide eight-year follow-up survey. Informatics for Health and Social Care 38(3): doi: / [Epub ahead of print]

2 Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2013). The role of online health information in the lives of Finns aged 65 to 79 years. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations 13(1): Eriksson-Backa, Kristina, Holmberg, Kim, Ek, Stefan (2016). Communicating diabetes and diets on Twitter - a semantic content analysis. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations 16(1): Articles in international refereed conference publications: Ginman, Mariam & Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2001). Information empowered health consciousness. In: ishimr2001. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, May 2001, Halkidiki, Greece. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, 2001, pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2002). Aiming at a Healthy Life. Using and Understanding Health Messages. In: Ginman, Mariam & Väliverronen, Esa (eds.): Communicating Health and New Genetics, Proceedings. Workshop 17-18th September 2001, Turku. Åbo- Tampere-Oulu, 2002 (Finnish Information Studies 20). Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2002). Who Uses the Web as a Health Information Source? In: ishimr2002. The Seventh International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, University of Sheffield, June 2002, UK, Proceedings. Sheffield:University of Sheffield 2002, pp Ginman, Mariam; Ek, Stefan; Eriksson-Backa, Kristina; Mustonen, Margit; Torkkola, Sinikka; Tuominen, Kimmo & Wikgren, Marianne (2003). Health communication and knowledge construction. In: ishimr 2003 Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on Health Information Management Research. 1-3 June Borås, Sweden. Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2005). Use, Trust and Quality: User Perceptions of Foodrelated Health Information. In: ishimr2005, Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, September 2005, Thessaloniki, Greece. Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2008). Not for us? Use and non-use of the Internet for healthrelated information by elderly in a language minority. In: Suomi, Reima, Arpiainen, Sanna (eds.): Promoting Health in Urban Living. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2008). Turku; Turku Centre for Computer Science, (TUCS General Publication, No 49, August 2008). Pp Ek, Stefan & Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2010). The use of and trust in health information on the Internet: an eight-year follow-up study of the Finnish population in the age group 18 to 65 years. In: Suomi, R. & Ilveskoski, I (eds.). Navigating the Fragmented

3 Innovation Landscape. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2010). Turku: TUCS, (TUCS General Publications No 56, August 2010). Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina & Ek, Stefan (2010). Information behaviour in the context of overweight and related health risks: a small-scale study of retired Finns. In: Suomi, R. & Ilveskoski, I (eds.). Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2010). Turku: TUCS, (TUCS General Publications No 56, August 2010). Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2011). Health information behaviour among retired Finns with either normal weight or obesity. In: Peter A. Bath, Tobias Mettler, Dimitri A. Raptis, Barbara A. Sen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research ISHIMR Zürich, Switzerland, 8th to 9th September, 2011, pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina, Ek, Stefan, Niemelä, Raimo & Huotari, Maija-Leena (2011). Health information literacy in everyday life a study of Finns aged 65 to 79 years. In: Peter A. Bath, Tobias Mettler, Dimitri A. Raptis, Barbara A. Sen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research ISHIMR Zürich, Switzerland, 8th to 9th September, 2011, pp Huotari, M-L, Eriksson-Backa, K, Enwald, H, Askola, K, Känsäkoski, H, Niemelä, R, Hirvonen, N, Ek, S (2011). Health Information Practice and Its Impact on Preventing Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome among People in Different Age Groups: An Integrative Approach. In: Peter A. Bath, Tobias Mettler, Dimitri A. Raptis, Barbara A. Sen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research ISHIMR Zürich, Switzerland, 8th to 9th September, 2011, pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2012). Finnish Silver Surfers and Online Health Information. In: Eriksson-Backa, K, Luoma, A & Krook, E. (eds.) Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities. 4 th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2012, Turku, Finland, August 2012, proceedings. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, 2012 (Communications in Computer and Information Science 313). Pp Holmberg, Kim, Eriksson-Backa, Kristina, Ek, Stefan (2014). Tweeting about Diabetes and Diets - Content and Conversational Connections. In: Saranto, K, Castrén, M, Kuusela, T, Hyrynsalmi, S & Ojala, S (eds.) Safe and Secure Cities. 5 th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 2014 (Communications in Computer and Information Science 450). Pp Eriksson-Backa, Kristina, Ek, Stefan (2015). Health information literacy and communication in healthcare contexts: a study of older Finnish adults. In: Bath, Peter A., Spring, Hannah, Sen, Barbara (eds.) The Seventeeth International Symposium for Health

4 Information Management Research (ishimr); June, York, UK, 2015, proceedings, pp Articles in Finnish refereed journals Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2004). Terveystieto ja sen vaikutus terveystietämykseen ja käyttäytymiseen. Informaatiotutkimus 32(4) 2004: Scientific monographs Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2003). In Sickness and in Health-How Information and Knowledge Are Related to Health Behaviour. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, Doctoral dissertation. Kivinen, Osmo; Eriksson-Backa, Kristina & Hedman, Juha (2005). A Proposal for a National Nutrition Strategy: Institutional Catering Services over the Life Span. Turku: Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku, (Koulutussosiologian tutkimuskeskuksen raportti 67) Other scientific publications: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2005). Ruokaan liittyvän terveystiedon merkitys raskauden aikana. Kätilölehti Tidskrift för barnmorskor 1/2005: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2005). Populärvetenskaplig litteratur ökar hälsokunskapen. Signum 2/2005: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2005). Giftig mat och nyttig information. Ikaros. Tidskrift om människan och vetenskapen 5/2005: 6. Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2010). Vi är vad vi äter om betydelsen av matrelaterad information. I: Christensen, Henrik Serup (red.). I vetenskapens sken. Glimtar ur tidskriften Ikaros Helsingfors: Ikaros, 2010: Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2011). Mat i medierna ett oskyldigt nöje? Ikaros. Tidskrift om människan och vetenskapen 8(1): Conference abstracts (refereed): Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2006). To seek or not to seek: health information literacy in differing groups. In: Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET 2006), Cardiff University, 29th June- 1st July Programme & Abstracts. P. 75. Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2009). Elderly people, health information, and libraries: a small-scale study on seniors in a language minority. In: Information: Interactions and

5 Impact 2009: Conference Abstracts. The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK June Pp Eriksson-Backa, K. (2010). Arkielämän terveystiedon lukutaitoa mittaamassa: kolmen pienimuotoisen tutkimuksen vertailua. Informaatiotutkimus 29(3), Niemelä, Raimo, Ek, Stefan, Eriksson-Backa, Kristina and Huotari, Maija-Leena (2011) Designing a self-assesment tool for screening everyday health information literacy. In: Information: Interactions and Impact (i3). Conference Abstracts. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK June 2011, pp Ek, S; Eriksson-Backa, K; Niemelä, R; Huotari, M-L (2011). Patterns of gender differences in health information behaviour and body mass index (BMI): findings from a Finnish population-based study. In: Papanikos, GT (ed.). Health Economics, Management & Policy. Abstract Book from the 10th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy June Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece. Pp [ Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2012). Ikäihmisten terveystiedon lähteiden käyttö kyselytutkimuksen antia. Informaatiotutkimus 31(3), Eriksson-Backa, Kristina (2014). Health information literacy and demographic background in relation to health risks, diabetes and heart disease among older Finnish adults. Informaatiotutkimus 33(3),

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