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In the era of technological transformation, the healthcare system is undergoing significant changes with the integration of digital health. The World Health Organization advocates for ethical and equitable incorporation of digital health into health priorities. Maternal health literacy intersects with digital transformation, emphasizing the need for health literacy responsiveness. This chapter explores the applications of digital health technologies on maternal health literacy. A narrative review identified technologies used for maternal health literacy, such as mobile apps, wearable devices, online platforms, and telehealth. Their impact on maternal health literacy, the potential benefits, challenges, and sociodemographic considerations linked with these technologies were assessed. The findings highlight the role of digital health in maternal health literacy and the importance of inclusive and culturally sensitive approaches. Recognizing the opportunities and limitations of digital health is vital for promoting maternal well-being and reducing health disparities during pregnancy.

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IUHPE Position Statement on Health Literacy: a practical vision for a health literate world

Janine Bröder, Peter Chang, Ilona Kickbusch … (2018)

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Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Technology Acceptance and Its Applications

Angelos I. Stoumpos, Fotis Kitsios, Michael A. Talias (2023)

Technological innovation has become an integral aspect of our daily life, such as wearable and information technology, virtual reality and the Internet of Things which have contributed to transforming healthcare business and operations. Patients will now have a broader range and more mindful healthcare choices and experience a new era of healthcare with a patient-centric culture. Digital transformation determines personal and institutional health care. This paper aims to analyse the changes taking place in the field of healthcare due to digital transformation. For this purpose, a systematic bibliographic review is performed, utilising Scopus, Science Direct and PubMed databases from 2008 to 2021. Our methodology is based on the approach by Wester and Watson, which classify the related articles based on a concept-centric method and an ad hoc classification system which identify the categories used to describe areas of literature. The search was made during August 2022 and identified 5847 papers, of which 321 fulfilled the inclusion criteria for further process. Finally, by removing and adding additional studies, we ended with 287 articles grouped into five themes: information technology in health, the educational impact of e-health, the acceptance of e-health, telemedicine and security issues.

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How Women Use Digital Technologies for Health: Qualitative Interview and Focus Group Study

Deborah Lupton, Sarah Maslen (2019)

Background A range of digital technologies are available to lay people to find, share, and generate health-related information. Few studies have directed attention specifically to how women are using these technologies from the diverse array available to them. Even fewer have focused on Australian women’s use of digital health. Objective The Australian Women and Digital Health Project aimed to investigate which types of digital technologies women used regularly for health-related purposes and which they found most helpful and useful. Qualitative methods—semistructured interviews and focus groups—were employed to shed light on the situated complexities of the participants’ enactments of digital health technologies. The project adopted a feminist new materialism theoretical perspective, focusing on the affordances, relational connections, and affective forces that came together to open up or close off the agential capacities generated with and through these enactments. Methods The project comprised two separate studies including a total of 66 women. In study 1, 36 women living in the city of Canberra took part in face-to-face interviews and focus groups, while study 2 involved telephone interviews with 30 women from other areas of Australia. Results The affordances of search engines to locate health information and websites and social media platforms for providing information and peer support were highly used and valued. Affective forces such as the desire for trust, motivation, empowerment, reassurance, control, care, and connection emerged in the participants’ accounts. Agential capacities generated with and through digital health technologies included the capacity to seek and generate information and create a better sense of knowledge and expertise about bodies, illness, and health care, including the women’s own bodies and health, that of their families and friends, and that of their often anonymous online social networks. The participants referred time and again to appreciating the feelings of agency and control that using digital health technologies afforded them. When the technologies failed to work as expected, these agential capacities were not realized. Women responded with feelings of frustration, disappointment, and annoyance, leading them to become disenchanted with the possibilities of the digital technologies they had tried. Conclusions The findings demonstrate the nuanced and complex ways in which the participants were engaging with and contributing to online sources of information and using these sources together with face-to-face encounters with doctors and other health care professionals and friends and family members. They highlight the lay forms of expertise that the women had developed in finding, assessing, and creating health knowledges. The study also emphasized the key role that many women play in providing advice and health care for family members not only as digitally engaged patients but also as digitally engaged carers.