Informed and Healthy: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on the Value of Information to Health Care focuses on two major issues: the value attributed to information by users and its effect on health care; and, a new model of information behavior in which the value of information drives various information activities (unlike many information models which tend to give prominence to information needs). The inductive development of the model is explained, with associated implications for theory and transferability or applicability elsewhere. 

• Provides a new model of information behaviour that emerges inductively from qualitative data
• Focuses on value of information rather than information needs
• Explains in detail the methodological approach used to value attribution
• Serves as a valuable resource for health professionals, planners, and policy makers, as well as researchers interested in health information systems and their applicability in different environments

Graduate students on health/medical informatics and information systems; health professionals, planners and policy makers