ArticlePublic health ethics2022
Commercial mHealth Apps and Unjust Value Trade-offs: A Public Health Perspective.
Article in Public health ethics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Non-empirical methods for ethics research on digital technologies in medicine, health care and public health: a systematic journal review.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2024Pooled it
- A scoping review of Spanish language pediatric digital health interventions.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2025Article
- Healthiness as a Virtue: The Healthism of mHealth and the Challenges to Public Health.Public health ethics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mobile health (mHealth) apps for self-monitoring increasingly gain relevance for public health. As a mobile technology, they promote individual participation in health monitoring with the aim of disease prevention and the mitigation of health risks. In this paper, I argue that users of mHealth apps must engage in value trade-offs concerning their fundamental dimensions of well-being when using mobile health apps for the self-monitoring of health parameters. I particularly focus on trade-offs regarding the user's self-determination as well as their capacity to form personal attachments. Depending on the user's level of advantage or disadvantage, value trade-offs can pose a threat to the users' sufficient fulfillment of the dimensions of well-being. As such, value trade-offs can entrench existing structural injustices and prevent disadvantaged users to benefit from this technology. I argue that value trade-offs are, to some, a type of injustice that can drive disadvantaged users away from a sufficiency threshold of well-being, risk users to fall below the threshold, or have an accumulative effect on different dimensions of the user's well-being.
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