Prerequisites for digital participation : the case of digital health technology and people with impairments
Johansson, Stefan LU ; Hedvall, Per Olof LU
; Gulliksen, Jan
; von Koch, Lena
and Gustavsson, Catharina
(2024)
p.552-564
- Abstract
- Digital healthcare services and digital health information, here called eHealth services, have the potential to reach people with diverse needs as both a complement to and a substitution for traditional healthcare. The access to and use of digital health information and digital healthcare services that are accessible and usable for people with impairments is a complex phenomenon.
This potential is not always released and there seems to be a systematic pattern regarding who will benefit from eHealth and who will not, and there is a risk that those who could benefit from eHealth the most will be the ones using it the least. This chapter will present and discuss a set of prerequisites for achieving equity and non-disabling use of... (More) - Digital healthcare services and digital health information, here called eHealth services, have the potential to reach people with diverse needs as both a complement to and a substitution for traditional healthcare. The access to and use of digital health information and digital healthcare services that are accessible and usable for people with impairments is a complex phenomenon.
This potential is not always released and there seems to be a systematic pattern regarding who will benefit from eHealth and who will not, and there is a risk that those who could benefit from eHealth the most will be the ones using it the least. This chapter will present and discuss a set of prerequisites for achieving equity and non-disabling use of eHealth services for people with impairments. Over time and depending on context or society, some prerequisites are probably more critical than others. (Less)
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- Johansson, Stefan
LU
; Hedvall, Per Olof
LU
; Gulliksen, Jan
; von Koch, Lena
and Gustavsson, Catharina
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-05-31
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Routledge international handbook of disability and global health
- editor
- Ned, Lieketseng ; Rivas Velarde, Minerva ; Singh, Satendra ; Swartz, Leslie and Soldatić, Karen
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85195003100
- ISBN
- 9781003859345
- 9781032131849
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003228059-44
- language
- English
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