mHealth, Health, and Mobility: A Culture-Centered Interrogation

  • Mohan J. Dutta
  • , Satveer Kaur-Gill
  • , Naomi Tan
  • , Chervin Lam

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Abstract

In this chapter, we examine the interplays of the symbolic and the material in the constructions of mHealth. By attending to the key themes that play out in discourses of mHealth, we examine critically the ways in which power plays out in the structuring of mHealth solutions. The articulation of mHealth as instrumental to generating positive health outcomes in communities across Asia erases the contexts within which mobile technologies are constituted. mHealth interventions reproduce the logics of the state and the market, reproducing communities as homogeneous and monolithic sites of top-down interventions.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationMobile Communication in Asia
PublisherSpringer
Pages91-107
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameMobile Communication in Asia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Communication
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • Community
  • Mobile health
  • Mobility
  • Neoliberalism

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