A study on the use of mobile health apps and human creativity.
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth underlines ten sixteen-month ethnographies, set across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, that revealed peoples use of communicative apps, including as LINE, WeChat, and WhatsApps alternative primary health apps, highlighting the irrelevance of dedicated health apps. Using a smart-from-below approach, this book studies these surprising practices and proposes a radically different anthropological method to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare.
