Chair: Alfred Winter, Leipzig University (Germany)

Co-Chair: Lăcrămioara Stoicu-Tivadar, Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara (Romania)

 

“Inclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations”. [1] Medical informatics shall help improving care for people pushed to the margins of society. We use the term “Inclusion Health Informatics” to identify this area of multidisciplinary research bringing together expertise from medical informatics, medicine, psychiatry, ethics, social work and other social sciences. Inclusion Health Informatics focuses on the vulnerable people affected, such as homeless people with their specific somatic and psychiatric conditions. However, informatics solutions must also be found for health professionals and social workers who, for example, are involved in street medicine and are often completely overburdened physically and emotionally. 

The working group will address the support of health care through medical informatics for marginalised and vulnerable groups, such as sexual minorities, victims of violence, Sinti and Roma, migrants, etc., and is open to discuss all relevant settings.

We are not only from the medical informatics community but also from medicine, psychiatry, ethics, social work and other social sciences.

1. Luchenski S, Maguire N, Aldridge RW, Hayward A, Story A, Perri P et al. What works in inclusion health: overview of effective interventions for marginalised and excluded populations. The Lancet 2018; 391(10117):266–80.