Digital Rights and Mobile Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital technology is a means to uphold or violate human rights in various domains, including business, military, and health. Given the pervasiveness of mobile technology in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), mobile health (mHealth) interventions present an opportunity to reach remote populations and enable them to exercise civil and political rights and economic, social, and cultural rights, such as the right to health and education. Simultaneously, the ubiquity of mobile phones involves processing sensitive data which can threaten rights, including the right to privacy and nondiscrimination. Digital health is often promoted as advancing human rights and health equity; however, digital rights are underexplored in the literature on mHealth in LMICs. As such, creat

SUBMITTER: Poulsen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582819 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature