Promoting inequality? Self-monitoring applications and the problem of social justice
- When it comes to improving the health of the general population, mHealth technologies with self-monitoring and intervention components hold a lot of promise. We argue, however, that due to various factors such as access, targeting, personal resources or incentives, self-monitoring applications run the risk of increasing health inequalities, thereby creating a problem of social justice. We review empirical evidence for “intervention-generated” inequalities, present arguments that self-monitoring applications are still morally acceptable, and develop approaches to avoid the promotion of health inequalities through self-monitoring applications.
Author: | Katrin PaldánORCiD, Hanno Sauer, Nils-Frederic Wagner |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0835-7 |
ISSN: | 1435-5655 |
Parent Title (English): | AI & Society |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2018 |
Release Date: | 2021/10/05 |
Tag: | Health inequality; Health-monitoring; Social inequality; Social justice; mHealth |
Number of pages: | 11 |
Note: | Veröffentlichungsdatum Web: 21. März 2018. Open Forum |
Organisationseinheit: | Forschung / Forschungszentrum Human Centred Technologies |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
Open Access?: | nein |
Peer review: | wiss. Beitrag, peer-reviewed |
Publicationlist: | Paldán, Katrin |