The Digital Divide in Healthcare: A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Digital Literacy

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2022-01-04

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As the use of IT for health management increases, digital health literacy becomes an important factor. Based on semi-structured interviews, this study presents experts’ perceptions about patients’ abilities to use digital health technologies for health management purposes and their perspectives on the importance of digital health literacy. This sociologically inspired paper will contribute with insights and a multidimensional perspective on the processes of digital health management (field), the importance of patient’s abilities (capital) in improving their health (habitus) from the expert’s perspectives.

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Personal Health and Wellness Management with Technologies, behavioral skills, digital health, digital health literacy, health management skills, technology adoption

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10 pages

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Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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