Uribe-Toril Juan, Ruiz-Real José Luis, Nievas-Soriano Bruno José
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain.
Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Jan 21;9(2):108. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9020108.
The field of social sciences has become increasingly important in eHealth. Patients currently engage more proactively with health services. This means that eHealth is linked to many different areas of Social Sciences. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the state-of-the-art research on eHealth from the perspective of social sciences. To this end, a bibliometric analysis was conducted using the Web of Science database. The main findings show the evolution of publications, the most influential countries, the most relevant journals and papers, and the importance of the different areas of knowledge. Although there are some studies on eHealth within social sciences, most of them focus on very specific aspects and do not develop a holistic analysis. Thus, this paper contributes to academia by analyzing the state-of-the-art of research, as well as identifying the most relevant trends and proposing future lines of research such as the potential of eHealth as a professional training instrument, development of predictive models in eHealth, analysis of the eHealth technology acceptance model (TAM), efficient integration of eHealth within public systems, efficient budget management, or improvement in the quality of service for patients.
社会科学领域在电子健康领域变得越来越重要。目前患者更积极地参与健康服务。这意味着电子健康与社会科学的许多不同领域相关联。本研究的主要目的是从社会科学的角度分析电子健康领域的前沿研究。为此，使用科学网数据库进行了文献计量分析。主要研究结果展示了出版物的发展历程、最具影响力的国家、最相关的期刊和论文，以及不同知识领域的重要性。尽管社会科学领域内有一些关于电子健康的研究，但大多数研究都集中在非常具体的方面，没有进行全面分析。因此，本文通过分析前沿研究，识别最相关的趋势并提出未来的研究方向，如电子健康作为专业培训工具的潜力、电子健康预测模型的开发、电子健康技术接受模型（TAM）的分析、电子健康在公共系统中的有效整合、有效的预算管理或患者服务质量的提升，为学术界做出了贡献。
