Gender dynamics in digital health: overcoming blind spots and biases to seize opportunities and responsibilities for transformative health systems.

ABSTRACT: Much remains to ensure that digital health affirms rather than retrenches inequality, including for gender. Drawing from literature and from the SEARCH projects in this supplement, this commentary highlights key gender dynamics in digital health, including blind spots and biases, as well as transformative opportunities and responsibilities. Women face structural and social barriers that inhibit their participation in digital health, but are also frequently positioned as beneficiaries without opportunities to shape such projects to better fit their needs. Furthermore, overlooking gender relations and focussing on women in isolation can reinforce, rather than address, women's exclusions in digital health, and worsen negative unanticipated consequences. While digital health provides opportuni

SUBMITTER: George AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294040 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature