Chapter ID: CBB487882323

Digitized Health Promotion: Risk and Personal Responsibility for Health and Illness in the Web 2.0 Era (2016)

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Since the first years of the twenty-first century, governments in many countries have been faced with harsh economic challenges. One way in which they have sought to meet these challenges is by introducing into the health care and public health arenas the use of the new digital technologies facilitated by Web 2.0. The new apparatus of what is often termed “digital health” (also “Health 2.0,” “Medicine 2.0,” “eHealth,” or “mHealth”), a conglomeration of new technologies addressed at deliv­ering health care, preventive medicine, and health promotion, has facilitated a focus on measuring and monitoring the functions and activ­ities of laypeople’s bodies...

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Authors & Contributors
Lievevrouw, Elisa
Moats, David
Sara Garcia Santamaria
Jenna M. Grant
Dahdah, Marine Al
Banerjee, Parthasarathi
Concepts
Health care
Information technology
Health promotion
Communications, digital
Medicine
Public health
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
India
Cambodia
Ghana
Cuba
Americas
Institutions
Harvard School of Public Health
Universität Stuttgart
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