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Mobile applications addressing violence against women

April 1, 2025
by MariaSel

Wie sind wir vorgegangen: Wir haben eine neue und innovative Methode entwickelt, Inhalte von Apps systematisch zu untersuchen und darzustellen.  Ergebnisse: Ein großer Teil der Apps, die sich mit Gewalt gegen Frauen befassen, setzt in erster Linie auf einmalige Notfall- oder Vermeidungslösungen im Gegensatz zu eher präventiven Ansätzen. Was ist besonders: Der Artikel ist die […]

Guest post – Public Health’s Digitization-Boost (- this is no “thank you corona”)

October 1, 2021
by Theresa Willem

With the outbreak of the pandemic, digitization took up speed rapidly. Just as fast, the question on the drivers of this digital transformation was omnipresent. Implicitly, explicitly, often in a much more serious tone than in the viral tweet I quoted above. It asks for – and suggests – the processes responsible for a paradigm […]

Cyberchondria: the dark side of digital health

February 3, 2021
by META Admin

A few years ago, one of my friends started having headaches that felt, as per her description, like a sudden electric shock. Of course this was unpleasant because it was painful; but it was rather disquieting as well because the experience was completely new and she had no idea about the cause. Consulting a doctor […]

YouTube as a health app? How reliable is health-related content?

January 27, 2021
by Rachna Bhallla

Today, digital technology seems to provide the answer to all health concerns. You name a health problem and there’s someone who claims to have an answer to it on the internet. In 2009, YouTube, an online platform that supports the uploading and streaming of video content, became mainstream. In the past few years, YouTube has […]

Stumbling into Something Very Bad

April 20, 2020
by META Admin

These are dangerous times. Let us not stumble into Something Very Bad.

mHealth: Creepiness and Consent

March 11, 2020
by META Admin

One of the problems of current mobile health technologies is that a lot of it is distinctly creepy. Providers may know what your breathing pattern is when you sleep, when you menstruate, that you have psoriasis or genital warts, how much you drink and whether you are feeling down …

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