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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

eHealth and mHealth Development in Spain: Promise or Reality?

Xosé Mahou, Bran Barral, Ángela Fernández, Ramón Bouzas-Lorenzo, Andrés Cernadas

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xosé MahouDepartment of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of Vigo, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain.
Bran BarralDepartment of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3656-0846
Ángela FernándezDepartment of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of Vigo, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain.
Ramón Bouzas-LorenzoDepartment of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Andrés CernadasDepartment of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ESUniversidade de Vigo · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last decades, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has progressively spread to society and public administration. Health is one of the areas in which the use of ICTs has more intensively developed through what is now known as eHealth. That area has recently included mHealth. Spanish health system has stood out as one of the benchmarks of this technological revolution. The development of ICTs applied to health, especially since the outbreak of the pandemic caused by SARS Cov-2, has increased the range of health services delivered through smartphones and the development of subsequent specialized apps. Based on the data of a Survey on Use and Attitudes regarding eHealth in Spain, the aim of this research was to conduct a comparative analysis of the different eHealth and mHealth user profiles. The results show that the user profile of eHealth an mHealth services in Spain is not in a majority. Weaknesses are detected both in the knowledge and use of eHealth services among the general population and in the usability or development of their mobile version. Smartphones can be a democratizing vector, as for now, access to eHealth services is only available to wealthy people, widening inequality.

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COVID-19TelemedicineHumansSARS-CoV-2SmartphoneSpaineHealthhealthcare disparitieshealth equityhealth policymHealthpublic policySpanish national health systemtelemedicine

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