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View article: Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine
Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine Open
Digital health is currently a widely used but vaguely defined term. In policy discourses as well as everyday talks it signifies emerging technologies that are increasingly adopted across various practices of health and medicine. The sociol…
View article: Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care Open
Participation of citizens and service users is increasingly commonplace in research, policy and technology development. Alongside this development, social scientists have become increasingly incorporated into large-scale research and innov…
View article: Digital health: A sociomaterial approach
Digital health: A sociomaterial approach Open
The notion of digital health often remains an empty signifier, employed strategically for a vast array of demands to attract investments and legitimise reforms. Rather scarce are attempts to develop digital health towards an analytic notio…
View article: Platform encounters: A study of digitised patient follow‐up in HIV care
Platform encounters: A study of digitised patient follow‐up in HIV care Open
Digital technologies are increasingly embedded in clinical encounters, reconfiguring the basis on which health care is delivered. Thereby, the delivery of care shifts from territorial locations in clinics and temporal modes of co‐presence …
View article: Understanding digital health: Productive tensions at the intersection of sociology of health and science and technology studies
Understanding digital health: Productive tensions at the intersection of sociology of health and science and technology studies Open
In this editorial introduction, we explore how digital health is being explored at the intersection of sociology of health and science and technology studies ( STS ). We suggest that socio‐material approaches and practice theories provide …
View article: Development of an mHealth platform for HIV Care: Gathering User Perspectives Through Co-Design Workshops and Interviews
Development of an mHealth platform for HIV Care: Gathering User Perspectives Through Co-Design Workshops and Interviews Open
Our approach to co-design enabled us to facilitate early engagement in the mHealth platform, enabling patient and clinician feedback to become embedded in the development process at a preprototype phase. Although the technologies in questi…
View article: Development of an mHealth platform for HIV Care: Gathering User Perspectives Through Co-Design Workshops and Interviews (Preprint)
Development of an mHealth platform for HIV Care: Gathering User Perspectives Through Co-Design Workshops and Interviews (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Despite advances in testing and treatment, HIV incidence rates within European countries are at best stable or else increasing. mHealth technology has been advocated to increase quality and cost-effectiveness of health services…
View article: Professionals’ perspectives towards health promotion in residential aged care: an explorative study in Austria: Table 1:
Professionals’ perspectives towards health promotion in residential aged care: an explorative study in Austria: Table 1: Open
Following the trend in most developed countries, in Austria the oldest old are the fastest growing population group. Among this group, there is a high prevalence of multimorbidity, functional impairment, dementia and psychiatric conditions…
View article: The struggle for inter-professional teamwork and collaboration in maternity care: Austrian health professionals’ perspectives on the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
The struggle for inter-professional teamwork and collaboration in maternity care: Austrian health professionals’ perspectives on the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Open
Differing approaches to childbirth and breastfeeding, deep seated professional jurisdictions, as well as spatial constraints, challenge inter-professional teamwork and collaboration on maternity units. Inter-professional teamwork and colla…