Instituto de Ingeniería Informática (I3US), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
Electronic Technology Department, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
Yearb Med Inform. 2022 Aug;31(1):82-87. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1742503. Epub 2022 Jun 2.
Social media is used in the context of healthcare, for example in interventions for promoting health. Since social media are easily accessible they have potential to promote health equity. This paper studies relevant factors impacting on health equity considered in social media interventions.
We searched for literature to identify potential relevant factors impacting on health equity considered in social media interventions. We included studies that reported examples of health interventions using social media, focused on health equity, and analyzed health equity factors of social media. We identified Information about health equity factors and targeted groups.
We found 17 relevant articles. Factors impacting on health equity reported in the included papers were extracted and grouped into three categories: digital health literacy, digital ethics, and acceptability.
Literature shows that it is likely that digital technologies will increase health inequities associated with increased age, lower level of educational attainment, and lower socio-economic status. To address this challenge development of social media interventions should consider participatory design principles, visualization, and theories of social sciences.
社交媒体在医疗保健领域得到了应用,例如在促进健康的干预措施中。由于社交媒体易于访问,因此它们有可能促进健康公平。本文研究了社交媒体干预措施中考虑的影响健康公平的相关因素。
我们搜索了文献,以确定在社交媒体干预措施中考虑的影响健康公平的潜在相关因素。我们纳入了报告使用社交媒体进行健康干预措施的示例、关注健康公平以及分析社交媒体健康公平因素的研究。我们确定了与健康公平因素和目标群体相关的信息。
我们发现了 17 篇相关文章。从纳入的论文中提取了影响健康公平的因素,并将其分为三类:数字健康素养、数字伦理和可接受性。
文献表明,随着年龄的增长、教育程度的降低和社会经济地位的降低,数字技术可能会增加与健康相关的不平等。为了应对这一挑战,社交媒体干预措施的开发应考虑参与式设计原则、可视化和社会科学理论。