CURATED CONTENT MHST 601

Curated jewels to facilitate learnings in this course

Unit 7 Future Directions in Health

Crawford, A. & Serhal, E. (2020). Digital health equity and COVID-19: The innovation curve cannot reinforce the social gradient of health. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(6). https://doi.org/10.2196/19361

The authors warn on the potential of worsening health inequities with the increased use of digital health technology and propose a digital health equity framework that takes into account the determinants of health and can help minimize health inequities.

Hensel, J. M., Ellard, K., Koltek, M., Wilson, G., & Sareen, J. (2019). Digital Health Solutions for Indigenous Mental Well-Being. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(8), 68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1056-6

A summary of digital health solutions for mental health care within Indigenous populations. The authors discuss their results of a literature search on this topic and review their own experiences.

Madigan, S., Racine, N., Cooke, J. E., & Korczak, D. J. (2020). COVID-19 and telemental health: Benefits, challenges, and future directions. Canadian Psychology, 62(1), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000259

The benefits and challenges of telehealth for both patients and health care providers as it relates to mental health. Barriers addressed include accessibility to technology and patient privacy.

Thimbleby, H. (2013). Technology and the future of Healthcare. Journal of Public Health Research, 2(3), 28. https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2013.e28

Discussion on the future of healthcare and the development of technology should keep patients at the heart of it all. Touches on the potential challenges in evolving technology such as hacking, and patient privacy breaches.

Yao R., Zhang W., Evans R., Cao G., Rui T. & Shen L. (2022).
Inequities in Health Care Services Caused by the Adoption of Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 24(3). https://doi.org/10.2196/34144

Newly published summary article focusing on how digital health technologies has exacerbated health care inequities.