A Framework to Research the Social Determinants of ICTs for E-Health
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v11i3.2706Keywords:
Access, digital divide, social determinants of healthAbstract
This article discusses the challenges of combining significantly different methodological approaches to investigate citizens' access to e-health. Although e-health has continued to expand around the globe, emerging evidence is that if not managed carefully, e-health will further exacerbate health inequities. We argue that, to guide further research to better understand the digital divide's impact on e-health access, we need to better understand both the quantitative relationships between and the qualitative explanations for ICT use and e-health access, ie the social determinants of ICTs for e-health.