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

TY - GEN

T1 - The Digital Divide in Healthcare

T2 - 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

AU - Ehrari, Humira

AU - Tordrup, Lise

AU - Müller, Sune Dueholm

PY - 2022/1

Y1 - 2022/1

N2 - As the use of IT for health management increases, threats to exacerbate existing health inequalities increases. Through semi-structured expert interviews, this qualitative study aims to examine the SocioCultural characteristics associated with access to and use of technologies for health managing purposes and its relationship with health literacy. Inspired by Bourdieu, the paper uses a socio-cultural perspective to understand the choices and lifestyle of individuals, based on the underlying human mechanisms that may function as determinants of the (in)equality which digitalization of health services may entail. The study focuses on the following question: How do social factors create and reproduce (in)equality in behavioral skills, regarding digital health technologies? The study contributes with a multidimensional perspective on social factors that influences the use and acceptance of digital health technologies from the expert's perspectives.

AB - As the use of IT for health management increases, threats to exacerbate existing health inequalities increases. Through semi-structured expert interviews, this qualitative study aims to examine the SocioCultural characteristics associated with access to and use of technologies for health managing purposes and its relationship with health literacy. Inspired by Bourdieu, the paper uses a socio-cultural perspective to understand the choices and lifestyle of individuals, based on the underlying human mechanisms that may function as determinants of the (in)equality which digitalization of health services may entail. The study focuses on the following question: How do social factors create and reproduce (in)equality in behavioral skills, regarding digital health technologies? The study contributes with a multidimensional perspective on social factors that influences the use and acceptance of digital health technologies from the expert's perspectives.

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M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-0-9981331-5-7

SP - 4097

EP - 4106

BT - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022

A2 - Bui, Tung X.

PB - University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Y2 - 3 January 2022 through 7 January 2022

ER -