Week 11 - Digital Health Promotion Flashcards
What has health promotion always engaged with?
- Media
What does health promotion always draw on?
- Theories and practices from media studies
What have studies shown that online communications are effective in?
- Improving health knowledge
- Understanding health topics
What have studies shown that social media can be used to promote and change?
- Health related behaviours
What are the 3 Eras of the Web?
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Web 3.0
Describe the Web 1.0 Era of the Web
- Following development of WWW
- Information Unidirectional
- Seek Health Information
Describe the Web 2.0 Era of the Web
- Known as ‘Social Web’
- Creation and Content Sharing by Users
- Seek others with shared concerns
Describe the Web 3.0 Era of the Web
- Known as ‘Internet of Things’
- Interconnection of smart objects that exchange information with or without need for human engagement
- Seek personalized, data driven health solutions
Who were the Partners in the Carrot Reward App?
- Ministry of Health
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- BC Healthy Living Alliance
- Social Change Rewards
- YMCA Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation
- Canadian Diabetes Association
What was the original goal of the Carrot Reward App?
- Influence British Columbians to make healthier choices
How did you earn points on the Carrot Rewards App? What else did you gain?
Points
- Completing quizzes on healthy living topics
Additional Gain
- Knowledge on Health
What are some of the Healthy Living topics covered in the Carrot Reward App?
- Nutrition, Meal Planning, and Grocery Shopping
- Physical Activity - amount, type
- Mental Wellbeing
- Low risk drinking and smoking
- Flue shots and other ‘health checks’ and screening
What kind of points did you receive in the Carrot Rewards App?
- Aeroplan
- Scene
- More Rewards
- Petro Points
What was the Goal of the Carrot Reward App?
- Increase step count among users in BC and NL
How did the Carrot Rewards App attempt to set theyre goal?
- Goal Setting
- Graded Tasks
- Biofeedback
- Small Incentives
For the Step Count Challenge on the Carrot Reward App when were users rewarded?
- Calculate baseline step, then reward for base +1000 steps.
- Reward for 10/14 days reaching goal
How many users were classified as inactive? What was inactive based on ?
50% of Users
- <5000 steps/day
What was the average increase in step count during the Step Count Challege?
- 117 steps
What step count did the high engagers that were inactive to start increase by?
- 1224 step/day
What was the Goal of the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?
- Incentivize flu education messaging
- Encourage vaccination uptake in BC
What did the in app quizzes feature during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?
- Education about importance of flu vaccine
When did the Carrot App give push notifications during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?
- When within 200m of a participating pharmacy
How did you receive bonus points on the Carrot App during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?
- For Going to Pharmacy
- Completing Follow Up Survey
How many users took the Flu Campaign Quiz?
- 38% (30500)
How many users of the Carrot App clicked on the map to find a pharmacy?
- 41%
How many Carrot App users turned on location based push notifications?
- 78%
How many Carrot App users spoke to a pharmacist?
- 96
How many Carrot App users reported getting vaccine?
- 38
Why did the Carrot Reward App Almost work?
- Gamification (points, goals, challenges)
- Present Bias: People overvalue immediate incentives
- Herd Behaviour: Real time feedback on peer progress
Why didnt the Carrot Reward App Survive?
- High engagement made it too expensive for government partners
- Average earnings was only $8/year
What is the evidence that there is a new (digital) fitness boom?
- Health apps are top category
- Fitness apps make up bulk of health apps
- Wearable tech alone estimated at 99.5 billion dollar industry in 2022
What is exergames?
- Health-related digital gaming
How do exergames work?
- Use sensors to generate digital data on players
- Provide data on fitness (BMI)
Why was Wii Fit revolutionary?
- First time positioned screens as something that could benefit physical health
Where is the blurring between ‘tech’ companies and ‘fitness’ companies seen?
- Nintendo a player in fitness space
- Nike player in tech space
What did scientists and engineers publish in 2011?
- a fictional, futuristic digitized weight-loss program
What did the Fit4Life fictional, futuristic digitized weight loss program entail?
- Tracking devices to monitor calorie consumption, exercise, metabolic rate.
- Integrating social media for support and motivation
- Goal to use technology to encourage people to eat less and exercise more
What equipment was theoretically proposed for the Fit4Life fictional, futuristic digitized weight-loss program?
- Earpiece - record jaw movements
- Thinsert - For sock/shoe: electronic weight scale
- HR monitor worn on chest
- Support cloud to connect social media
- Information to link wirelessly to smartphone app
What is a Prosumers?
- Both Produce and Consume digital content
What are quantified self-ers?
- Growing movement in self-tracking as part of improving one’s lifeq
Describe HEalthism
- Health as personal and moral matter
- People have personal and moral responsibility to be as healthy as possible
What is Healthism closely linked to?
- Medicalization of everyday life
What is the medicalization of everyday life?
- Notion that more and more realms of life are subject to the medical gaze
What is Healthism and Medicalization of Everyday Life often associated with?
- Neoliberalism
What did Lupton (2014) say about Digital technology and companies?
- Digital technologies are political
- Digital empires have a lot of power
- Can shape social relations, commercial, and government activities and all forms of social institutions
What is something that Insurance companies have recently done?
- Offer discounts if you let them track your fitbit
- Discounts for healthy behaviours
What are some concerns with digital health promotion?
- Blur boundaries between public and private surveillance
- Users framed as personally responsible for own care and management