A reply to Shachak.
A reply to Shachak.
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对沙恰克的回复。
DOI：
10.1093/jamia/ocab022
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2021
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Gottlieb,LauraM
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作者：
Pantell,MatthewS;Adler-Milstein,Julia;Wang,MichaelD;Prather,AricA;Adler,NancyE;Gottlieb,LauraM
亲爱的JAMIA编辑和读者：我们感谢Shachak关于我们题为“呼吁社会信息学”的文章的来信。[1]他在书中指出，社会信息学是一个不恰当的术语，不能用来描述一个致力于应用信息技术来获取和应用社会数据以及健康数据以促进健康的领域。2然而，我们仍然相信这是一个有用的术语，并珍惜这个分享我们推理的机会。在选择社会信息学一词时，我们意识到社会信息学领域的存在，该领域的重点是研究信息和通信技术各个方面与制度和文化背景的相互作用。[3]然而，在生物医学信息学文献中很少发现社会信息学一词的这种用法。在PubMed搜索术语社会信息学，我们确定了67篇出版物（不包括我们的文章）。我们检索到了其中的64篇文章;只有6篇在文章本身中使用了该术语。在其余的58个中，该术语作为作者从属关系或机构描述的一部分出现（例如，来自社会信息学的学校或部门）。我们认为，这提供了强有力的证据表明，该术语在生物医学信息学文献中没有广泛使用。在撰写本文时，我们考虑了这个新领域的其他术语，如临床社会信息学和健康信息学的社会决定因素。然而，这些选项的庞大和笨拙与更简洁的社会信息学术语相比是有问题的。
Dear JAMIA editors and readers: We appreciate Shachak’s letter regarding our article entitled “A Call for Social Informatics.” 1 In it, he argues that social informatics is a poor term to describe a field dedicated to the application of information technologies to capture and apply social data in conjunction with health data in order to advance health. 2 We continue to believe that it is a useful term, however, and value this opportunity to share our reasoning.In selecting the term social informatics, we were aware of the existence of a field of social informatics, which focuses on the study of the interaction of various aspects of information and communication technologies with institutional and cultural contexts. 3 However, this use of the term social informatics is rarely found in the biomedical informatics literature. In a PubMed search for the term social informatics, we identified 67 publications (not including our article) with the term. We were able to retrieve 64 of these articles; only 6 used the term in the article itself. In the remaining 58, the term appeared as part of the author affiliation or institutional description (eg, from a School or Department of Social Informatics). We believe that this offers strong evidence that the term is not in widespread use in the biomedical informatics literature. In writing our article, we considered other terms for this new field, such as clinical social informatics and social determinants of health informatics. However, the bulkiness and awkwardness of these options were problematic in comparison with the more succinct term of social informatics.