How did we proceed:
In this paper, we looked at how mobile health technologies (mHealth) relate to social justice issues in the management of type 2 diabetes from a public health ethics perspective and the risks they pose to vulnerable populations.
Results:
On the one hand, mHealth can promote health participation, but on the other hand it reinforces existing inequalities if digital skills, technical access or social and political framework conditions are lacking.
What is special:
On the one hand, mHealth can promote health participation, but on the other hand it reinforces existing inequalities if digital skills, technical access or social and political framework conditions are lacking.
Jansky B, Machleid F, Wild V (2023):
Mobile Gesundheitstechnologien, soziale Gerechtigkeit und populationsbezogene Vulnerabilitäten: eine Public-Health-ethische Perspektive auf mHealth am Beispiel von Diabetes mellitus Typ 2.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt – Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz 2023;66:168-175.
