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

Humira Ehrari; Lise Tordrup; Sune Dueholm Müller

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

Humira Ehrari, Lise Tordrup, Sune Dueholm Müller

Department of Management

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
Editors	Tung X. Bui
Number of pages	10
Publisher	University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Publication date	Jan 2022
Pages	4097-4106
ISBN (Print)	978-0-9981331-5-7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780998133157
Publication status	Published - Jan 2022
Event	55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) - Virtual Duration: 3 Jan 2022 → 7 Jan 2022

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Conference	55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Location	Virtual
Period	03/01/2022 → 07/01/2022

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Ehrari, H., Tordrup, L., & Müller, S. D. (2022). The Digital Divide in Healthcare: A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Digital Health Literacy. In T. X. Bui (Ed.), Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022 (pp. 4097-4106). University of Hawai'i at Manoa . https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/eedd093b-a98c-4009-a2f2-8339373ef826

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The Digital Divide in Healthcare: A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Digital Health Literacy. / Ehrari, Humira; Tordrup, Lise; Müller, Sune Dueholm.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022. ed. / Tung X. Bui. University of Hawai'i at Manoa , 2022. p. 4097-4106.

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