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ReviewHealth psychology and behavioral medicine2025

Bridging the digital health divide: a narrative review of the causes, implications, and solutions for digital health inequalities.

Max J Western, Eline S Smit, Thomas Gültzow, Efrat Neter, Falko F Sniehotta, Olivia S Malkowski, Charlene Wright, Heide Busse, Carmen Peuters, Lucia Rehackova and 8 more

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Review in Health psychology and behavioral medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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54citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Max J WesternCentre for Motivation and Behaviour Change, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1107-8498
Eline S SmitUniversity of Amsterdam/ASCoR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8588-6194
Thomas GültzowDepartment of Work & Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9268-1880
Efrat NeterDepartment of Behavorial Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2162-0474
Falko F SniehottaPublic Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1738-4269
Olivia S MalkowskiCentre for Motivation and Behaviour Change, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8395-3565
Charlene WrightSchool of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-6032
Heide BusseLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6043-9072
Carmen PeutersBarcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-4220
Lucia RehackovaDepartment of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4099-7899
Angelo Gabriel OteșanuFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9158-7676
Ben AinsworthSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5098-1092
Christopher M JonesCentre for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3182-8244
Michael KilbDepartment of Child Nutrition, Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food, Karlsruhe, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9751-2499
Angela M RodriguesDepartment of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-8006
Olga PerskiHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3285-3174
Alison WrightInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-5219
Laura KönigFaculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3655-8842

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Digital divideeHealthinequalitiessocio-ecological model

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PMID40276490
PMCPMC12020140

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