The Digital Health Self

Author : Rachael Kent
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529210170

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The Digital Health Self by Rachael Kent Pdf

This is a detailed analysis of how understanding of health management past, present and future has transformed in the digital age. Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed ‘healthy’ lifestyles being pushed as part of health promotion strategies, both via the state, and through health tracking tools, and narratives of wellness online. This marks a seismic shift from a public welfare state responsibility for health towards individualised practices of digital self-care. Today health has become representative of ‘lifestyle correction' which is performed on social media. Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism and digital technology as pervasive tools that dictate wellness as a moral obligation, Rachael Kent critically analyses how users navigate relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media, and everyday health management.

Author : Rachael Kent
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529210163

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The Digital Health Self by Rachael Kent Pdf

This is a detailed analysis of how understanding of health management past, present and future has transformed in the digital age. Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed ‘healthy’ lifestyles being pushed as part of health promotion strategies, both via the state, and through health tracking tools, and narratives of wellness online. This marks a seismic shift from a public welfare state responsibility for health towards individualised practices of digital self-care. Today health has become representative of ‘lifestyle correction' which is performed on social media. Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism and digital technology as pervasive tools that dictate wellness as a moral obligation, Rachael Kent critically analyses how users navigate relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media, and everyday health management.

Author : Deborah Lupton,Zeena Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429688058

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Digital Food Cultures by Deborah Lupton,Zeena Feldman Pdf

This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video blogs), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, technology developers’ promotional media, online discussion forums and self-tracking apps and devices. The book emphasises the diversity of food cultures available on the internet and other digital media, from those celebrating unrestrained indulgence in food to those advocating very specialised diets requiring intense commitment and focus. While most of the digital media and devices discussed in the book are available and used by people across the world, the authors offer valuable insights into how these global technologies are incorporated into everyday lives in very specific geographical contexts. This book offers a novel contribution to the rapidly emerging area of digital food studies and provides a framework for understanding contemporary practices related to food production and consumption internationally.

Author : Deborah Lupton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317302193

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Digital Health by Deborah Lupton Pdf

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally renowned for her scholarship on the sociocultural and political aspects of medicine and health as well as digital technologies, addresses a range of compelling issues about the interests digital health represents, and its unintended effects on patients, doctors and how we conceive of public health and healthcare delivery. Bringing together social and cultural theory with empirical research, the book challenges apolitical approaches to examine the impact new technologies have on social justice, and the implication for social and economic inequalities. Lupton considers how self-tracking devices change the patient-doctor relationship, and how the digitisation and gamification of healthcare through apps and other software affects the way we perceive and respond to our bodies. She asks which commercial interests enable different groups to communicate more widely, and how the personal data generated from digital encounters are exploited. Considering the lived experience of digital health technologies, including their emotional and sensory dimensions, the book also assesses their broader impact on medical and public health knowledges, power relations and work practices. Relevant to students and researchers interested in medicine and public health across sociology, psychology, anthropology, new media and cultural studies, as well as policy makers and professionals in the field, this is a timely contribution on an important issue.

Author : Mariella Särestöniemi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031590801

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Digital Health and Wireless Solutions by Mariella Särestöniemi Pdf

Author : Bouarar, Ahmed Chemseddine,Mouloudj, Kamel,Martínez Asanza, Dachel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781668483381

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Integrating Digital Health Strategies for Effective Administration by Bouarar, Ahmed Chemseddine,Mouloudj, Kamel,Martínez Asanza, Dachel Pdf

In the field of health, digital health has assumed significant importance in recent years due to its contribution to enhancing the overall healthcare system performance in terms of alleviating the ever-growing pressure on the healthcare system, reducing healthcare costs, improving working conditions and job satisfaction of health professionals, improving patients’ satisfaction, and providing a holistic view of patient health through access to data and giving patients more control over their health. Therefore, it is of vital importance to understand the overwhelming possibilities and promise it can offer for better health services. Similarly, exploring barriers to digital health engagement is an important tool to guarantee an effective adoption and transition that can meet all healthcare stakeholders’ objectives. Integrating Digital Health Strategies for Effective Administration explores recent writings and original research findings in the field of digital health with a special focus on digital health adoption strategies and challenges. This book is intellectually situated between digital health management and digital health technologies. Covering topics such as digital health literacy, machine learning, and procedural law, this premier reference source is an essential resource for app developers, healthcare administrators, healthcare professionals, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Vincent G. Duffy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031357480

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Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management by Vincent G. Duffy Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Digital Human Modeling & Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics & Risk Management (DHM) Conference, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The DHM 2023 method focuses on different areas of application and has produced works focused on human factors and ergonomics based on human models, novel approaches in healthcare and the application of artificial intelligence in medicine. Interesting applications will be shown in many sectors. Work design and productivity, robotics and intelligent systems are among this year's human-machine modeling and results reporting efforts.

Author : Gina Neff,Dawn Nafus
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262529129

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Self-Tracking by Gina Neff,Dawn Nafus Pdf

What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.

Author : David C. Klonoff,David Kerr,Elissa R. Weitzman
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323906760

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Diabetes Digital Health and Telehealth by David C. Klonoff,David Kerr,Elissa R. Weitzman Pdf

Diabetes Digital Health and Telehealth explains, from technologic, economic and sociologic standpoints how digital health and telehealth have come to dominate the management of diabetes. The book also includes information on improved telemedicine tools and platforms for communicating with patients, reviewing medical records, and interpreting data from wearable devices. In addition, evolving wearable sensors such as continuous glucose monitors, closed loop automated insulin delivery systems, cuffless blood pressure monitors, exercise monitors and smart insulin pens are covered. Covers advances in the fields of digital health and telehealth, including research methods, relevant types of evidence, and viable endpoints for assessing the clinical and economic benefits of digital health and telehealth for diabetes Discusses improved telemedicine tools and platforms for communicating with patients, reviewing medical records and interpreting data from wearable devices Analyzes information gaps, research methods, relevant types of evidence, and viable endpoints for assessing the clinical and economic benefits of digital health and telehealth for diabetes

Author : Maria Hägglund,Hanife Rexhepi,Bridget T. Kane,Åsa Cajander
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889748273

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Personalized Digital Health and Patient-centric Services by Maria Hägglund,Hanife Rexhepi,Bridget T. Kane,Åsa Cajander Pdf

Author : Shabbir Syed-Abdul,Xinxin Zhu,Luis Fernandez-Luque
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128200780

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Digital Health by Shabbir Syed-Abdul,Xinxin Zhu,Luis Fernandez-Luque Pdf

Digital Health: Mobile and Wearable Devices for Participatory Health Applications is a key reference for engineering and clinical professionals considering the development or implementation of mobile and wearable solutions in the healthcare domain. The book presents a comprehensive overview of devices and appropriateness for the respective applications. It also explores the ethical, privacy, and cybersecurity aspects inherent in networked and mobile technologies. It offers expert perspectives on various approaches to the implementation and integration of these devices and applications across all areas of healthcare. The book is designed with a multidisciplinary audience in mind; from software developers and biomedical engineers who are designing these devices to clinical professionals working with patients and engineers on device testing, human factors design, and user engagement/compliance. Presents an overview of important aspects of digital health, from patient privacy and data security to the development and implementation of networks, systems, and devices Provides a toolbox for stakeholders involved in the decision-making regarding the design, development, and implementation of mHealth solutions Offers case studies, key references, and insights from a wide range of global experts

Author : Alan Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351780391

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Digital Health and Technological Promise by Alan Petersen Pdf

What is ‘digital health’? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for individual citizens and society? ‘Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism, with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare, and enable individuals to better manage their own health and risk and to receive a more ‘personalised’ treatment and care. Offering a sociological perspective, this book critically examines the dimensions and implications of ‘digital health’, a term that is often ill defined, but signifies the promise of technology to ‘empower’ individuals and improve their lives as well as generating efficiencies and wealth. The chapters explore relevant sociological concepts and theories; changing conceptions of the self-evident in citizens’ growing use of wearables, online behaviours and patient activism; changes in medical practices, especially precision (or ‘personalised’) medicine and growing reliance on ‘big data’ and algorithm-driven decisions; the character of the digital healthcare economy; and the perils of ‘digital health’. It is argued that, for various reasons, including the way digital technologies are designed and operate and the influence of big technology companies and other interests seeking to monetise citizens’ data, ‘digital health’ is unlikely to deliver much of what is promised. Citizens’ use of digital technologies is likened to a Faustian bargain: citizens are likely to surrender something of far greater value (their personal data) than what they obtain from their use. However, growing data activism and calls for ‘algorithmic accountability’ highlight the potential for citizens to create alternative futures—ones oriented to fulfilling human needs rather than techno-utopian visions. This ground-breaking book will provide an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the socio-cultural and politico-economic implications of digital health.

Author : David C. Klonoff,David Kerr,Juan Espinoza
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780443132438

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Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence by David C. Klonoff,David Kerr,Juan Espinoza Pdf

Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence explains how to develop and use the emerging technologies of digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence to address this important public health problem to deliver new hardware, software, and processes. The book explores trends in developing and deploying the three most important emerging technologies for diabetes: digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence. This book is essential to clinicians, scientists, engineers, industry professionals, regulators, and investors, offering the tools that will be used to create the next generation products to support a precision medicine approach to manage diabetes. According to the CDC, in the US there are 37 million people with diabetes and 96 million people with prediabetes. Diabetes triples the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke and is the leading cause of blindness, end stage renal failure, and amputations. The management of diabetes is becoming increasingly dominated by digital health tools consisting of wearable sensors, mobile applications providing decision support software, and wireless communication tools. Digital health provides new data streams that can be combined to create unique approaches for diabetes based on a precision medicine paradigm. Includes Artificial intelligence (AI) data for the prediction, diagnosis, treatment, and prognostication for diabetes as a model disease Describes the most important issues of our time that comprise the most important technologies currently being applied to diabetes Presented in a consistent easy to help those new to the field understand and compare/contrast various elements of digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence for diabetes

Author : Ronald W. Berkowsky,Alexander Seifert,Timothy M. Hale
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832528341

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Benefits and challenges to using health-related information and communication technologies among older adults by Ronald W. Berkowsky,Alexander Seifert,Timothy M. Hale Pdf

Author : Btihaj Ajana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319653792

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Self-Tracking by Btihaj Ajana Pdf

This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, a growing number of people are embracing this culture of quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their health and wellbeing. The aim of this book is to enhance understanding of this fast-growing trend, bringing together scholars who are working at the forefront of the critical study of self-tracking practices. Each chapter provides a different conceptual lens through which one can examine these practices, while grounding the discussion in relevant empirical examples. From phenomenology to discourse analysis, from questions of identity, privacy and agency to issues of surveillance and tracking at the workplace, this edited collection takes on a wide, and yet focused, approach to the timely topic of self-tracking. It constitutes a useful companion for scholars, students and everyday users interested in the Quantified Self phenomenon.