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
Chow-White, Peter A.
Engs, Ruth Clifford
Fosse, Sébastien de la
Greenlees, Janet
Hogan, Andrew J.
Kadetz, Paul
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social History of Medicine
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medical History
Publishers
Princeton University
New York, City University of
University of Southern California
Praeger Publishers
The MIT Press
University Press of Florida
Concepts
Health care
Information technology
Health promotion
Public health
Communications, digital
Medicine
People
Farmer, Paul
Shannon, Claude Elwood
Don Berwick
Jim Yong Kim
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
India
Great Britain
Philippines
Denmark
Germany
Institutions
Universität Stuttgart
Harvard School of Public Health
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