Digital Innovations for Health Promotion
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 4392
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Interests: digital health; health promotion; public health; workforce
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Dear Colleagues,
Health promotion and the prevention of disease are global priorities. With the rising prevalence of non-communicable disease and mental health illnesses, there is an urgent need to focus on enabling individuals, families, populations, and communities to adopt lifestyles that promote and improve their health. Health promotion approaches include primary prevention (preventing the onset of illness and disease), secondary prevention (preventing the progression of illness and disease) and tertiary prevention (mitigating further illness and suffering in those who are already ill). Digital technologies are becoming increasingly important as a mechanism for the delivery of health promotion interventions in healthcare or community settings. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of innovations and emerging technologies in e-health, m-health, telehealth, gamification, virtual reality, and the Internet of Things. Their application includes, but are not limited to, health education (e.g., to enhance health literacy and/or competencies), health monitoring, health communications (e.g., mass messaging, the Internet, and social media health campaigns), psychosocial and behavioural interventions for health promotion, health protection and disease prevention (e.g., alcohol and substance use, smoking cessation, diet, physical activity, health screening and vaccination uptake). Of further value is exploring users’ engagement with digital interventions, and how health professionals, health educators, or other health champions integrate digital health promotion innovations into their everyday practice. We invite submissions based on empirical research, or high-quality evidence reviews, such as systematic or scoping review.
Prof. Dr. Holly Blake
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital Health
- e-health
- m-health
- health promotion
- health education
- prevention
- public health
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