An Anthropological Approach to mHealth
This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare. An Anthropological Approach to mHealth is based on ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin A...
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| description | This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare. An Anthropological Approach to mHealth is based on ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America that showed how conventional health apps may be irrelevant particularly for older people. Instead, the studies found that many people use their mobile and smartphones for health purposes to a surprising extent. They take the communicative apps they have become comfortable with, such as LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp, and are highly creative in turning them into their own health apps. These are the practices from which this book seeks to learn, in what we call a ‘smart-from-below’ approach. This body of research also provided many additional insights, including the consequences of googling for health information, the role of the smartphone in specific settings such as an oncology clinic in Chile or tele-psychotherapy in Uganda, and the lessons learnt during Covid-19 around the problems in self-tracking. Overall, the authors show how an anthropological approach situated in the observation of everyday life can be the foundation for an alternative but highly promising perspective on the future of mHealth. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1481122024-11-20T04:43:49Z An Anthropological Approach to mHealth Hawkins, Charlotte Awondo, Patrick Miller, Daniel mHealth Smartphones Apps Health Global Anthropology Ethnography Care Self-Tracking Googling Medical thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare. An Anthropological Approach to mHealth is based on ten 16-month ethnographies in settings across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America that showed how conventional health apps may be irrelevant particularly for older people. Instead, the studies found that many people use their mobile and smartphones for health purposes to a surprising extent. They take the communicative apps they have become comfortable with, such as LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp, and are highly creative in turning them into their own health apps. These are the practices from which this book seeks to learn, in what we call a ‘smart-from-below’ approach. This body of research also provided many additional insights, including the consequences of googling for health information, the role of the smartphone in specific settings such as an oncology clinic in Chile or tele-psychotherapy in Uganda, and the lessons learnt during Covid-19 around the problems in self-tracking. Overall, the authors show how an anthropological approach situated in the observation of everyday life can be the foundation for an alternative but highly promising perspective on the future of mHealth. 2024-11-20T04:43:46Z 2024-11-20T04:43:46Z 2024-11-19T08:56:59Z 2024 book ONIX_20241119_9781787354234_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94746 9781787354234 9781787354241 9781787354258 9781787354265 9781787355767 9781787359611 9781787359666 9781787359710 9781787359963 9781800084100 9781800084629 9781800085138 9781910634448 9781910634493 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/148112 eng Ageing with Smartphones open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94746/1/9781787354234.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787354234 10.14324/111.9781787354234 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781787354234 9781787354241 9781787354258 9781787354265 9781787355767 9781787359611 9781787359666 9781787359710 9781787359963 9781800084100 9781800084629 9781800085138 9781910634448 9781910634493 279 London open access |
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| title | An Anthropological Approach to mHealth |
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| topic | mHealth Smartphones Apps Health Global Anthropology Ethnography Care Self-Tracking Googling Medical thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health |
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