[Air-L] mHealth CFP for Mobile Media and Communication (Sage)

Rich Ling riseling at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 18:51:44 PDT 2015


Dear all,

Mobiile Media and Communication is issuing a call for papers for:

*mHealth Use and Interventions: *
*How Far Have We Come, and Where Are We Heading? *

Guest editors are
Constanze Rossmann, Holley Wilkin, and Komathi Ale,

Along with the increasing penetration of mobile media and smart devices,
the use of mobile media for health information and services (mHealth) has
gained considerable relevance, both in developed and developing countries.
A decade of developments, interventions, and evaluations has not only
guided the design and application of mHealth, but also points towards
future directions in mobile media research. mHealth can be applied to
several areas, such as health promotion and disease prevention, disease
monitoring and self-monitoring, diagnostic and treatment support,
communication and training between healthcare workers, and disease and
epidemic outbreak tracking. mHealth apps and interventions embrace a wide
range of technological features, ranging from mobile telecommunication and
text messaging and the use of features such as cameras, GPS, and
accelerometers to multimedia applications, games, and connections to other
devices such as glucometers, pedometers, and smartwatches. The potentials
and limitations of mHealth are evolving as studies increasingly disseminate
evidence of use and impact globally. For instance, mhealth offers the
opportunity to reach certain target groups easily, to contact them
repeatedly, to address people individually and at relatively low costs, and
to offer interactive and tailored health communication. On the other hand,
in spite of the growing ubiquity of mobile media technologies, certain
groups remain disadvantaged in access to basic healthcare (e.g.,
hard-to-reach, resource-poor populations). Further problems arise around
the value of mHealth apps, data security, actual adoption, and a general
lack of attention to nuances in mHealth deployments. Despite the fact that
there has been considerable research in this area, many questions continue
to remain unsolved. Bringing these problems and gaps to light will lead us
into the next decade of relevant and quality mHealth research. This calls
for theoretically sound, methodologically deliberate and sustainable
evidence for scalability, informed by realities of both the developed and
developing regions. Essentially, this special section on mHealth use and
interventions puts forth the question: How far have we come, and where are
we heading?

The call can be viewed at:

http://mmc.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/MMC_mHealth.pdf


Rich Ling



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