Digital health promotion: promise and peril

dc.contributor.authorKoh, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorSwanepoel, De Wet
dc.contributor.authorLing, Annie
dc.contributor.authorHo, Beverly Lorraine
dc.contributor.authorTan, Si Ying
dc.contributor.authorLim, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T10:27:29Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T10:27:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.description.abstractThe World Health Organization defines health promotion as process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health. As the world transitions into the information age, incorporating digital technologies into health promotion is becoming commonplace. This article discusses current applications of digital health promotion (DHP) and addresses its potential benefits, challenges, as well as how differences in cultures, governance models and digital readiness across the globe will shape the implementation of DHP differently in each society. The benefits include expanding access to health information and health promoting services, lowering scaling up costs, personalizing health advice and real-time ‘nudging’ toward healthier options. Key challenges would involve privacy control, appropriate use of data including secondary usage beyond the original intention, defining the limits of ‘nudging’ and the right of free choice, and ensuring widespread accessibility and affordability to minimize the exacerbation of social inequities. Finally, we discuss the enabling factors for successful DHP implementation, suggesting measures that should be taken at both individual and system levels. At the individual level, we explore the factors necessary to access and benefit from DHP meaningfully; at the system level, we examine the infrastructure required to provide wide access, establish trust among users and enable sustainability of behavioral changes.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentSpeech-Language Pathology and Audiologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2022en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://heapro.oxfordjournals.orgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKoh, A., Swanepoel, D., Ling, A.N. et al. Digital health promotion: promise and peril. Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, December 2021, Pages i70–i80, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab134.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0957-4824 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1460-2245 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1093/heapro/daab134
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84404
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectDigital healthen_ZA
dc.subjectDigitalizationen_ZA
dc.subjectPersonalized healthen_ZA
dc.subjectHealth behaviorsen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity health promotionen_ZA
dc.titleDigital health promotion: promise and perilen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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