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The Plurality of Daily Digital Health: The Emergence of a New Form of Health Coordination

Die Pluralität der täglichen digitalen Gesundheit: Das Aufkommen einer neuen Form der Gesundheitskoordination
[journal article]

Cappel, Valeska

Abstract

This article presents the current datafication processes in the field of health as a new form of health coordination. Methodologically, the conceptual foundation of the article is embedded in neopragmatist thinking and mainly informed by the "economics of convention" (EC). At the beginning, it is ma... view more

This article presents the current datafication processes in the field of health as a new form of health coordination. Methodologically, the conceptual foundation of the article is embedded in neopragmatist thinking and mainly informed by the "economics of convention" (EC). At the beginning, it is made clear that the datafication processes in the health system and in people's everyday lives are primarily a future vision that has high hopes for improving and controlling health. The aim of the article is to analyze the current effects of these mobilization processes and to show that with datafication processes, a new coordination mode of a digital daily health is introduced. To this end, the new form of digital daily health is being introduced. For this purpose, its characteristics are described and its relevance for coordination processes is shown. After that, the intersection between the new form of digital daily health and individual health will be analyzed. Finally, the consequences of this new health coordination form will be shown on an individual level as well as on the level of political economy of health.... view less

Keywords
health care delivery system; digitalization; data capture; everyday life; health behavior; health care; data protection

Classification
Medical Sociology
Technology Assessment

Free Keywords
Economics of convention; investment in form; dispositive of evaluation; regimes of engagement; sociology of quantification; alliance convention; sociology of health; datafication; big data; connected health; digital health; health coordination

Document language
English

Publication Year
2021

Page/Pages
p. 230-260

Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 1

Issue topic
Conventions, Health and Society - Convention Theory as an Institutionalist Approach to the Political Economy of Health

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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