Digital health technologies are revolutionizing healthcare by changing how health knowledge is created, accessed, and used. Wearable devices and mobile apps now provide means to measure and monitor people's health behaviors and bodies. While the first generation to experience digital healthcare, young people are not necessarily digitally native and face risks from social media use and being subjects of digital surveillance. Some critical issues that arise are the need for digital health literacy to interpret data, potential digital health inequalities, and how collected health data may shape future healthcare opportunities and be used.

1. Dr Emma Rich (University of Bath)
Professor Andy Miah (University of Salford)
Professor Deborah Lupton(University of Canberra)
Dr Sarah Lewis (University of Bath)

2. Where is Digital Health?

3. Digital and Biological
Are Converging

4. Our Story so Far
• Large scale survey of young people’s
engagement with digital health (1000+
11-18 year olds)
• Interviews with young people
• Mobile based research capturing
young people’s experiences of using
digital health technologies

5. Digital Health Technologies
• Global mobile and wearable health industry
• Social media, wearable tech (e.g. fitbit), blogs, websites
• Digital health technologies are revolutionising healthcare
• Changing the way health knowledge is being created,
accessed and used around the world.
• wearable and mobile health industry providing the means
through which people's bodies and health practices are are
being measured and monitored.
• Processes of surveillance, monitoring and quantification
(tracking ourselves)

6. Why focus on young people?
• First generation to experience digital health care
• Not necessarily digitally native
• Risks of social media/sharing information
• Subjects of surveillance? Williamson, (2016)
notes that Digital data technologies play an
increasingly prominent role in the collection,
calculation and circulation of information about
children.
• formal institutions and organisations (e.g.
schools, health organisations) encourage use of
commercially based digital technologies and
their associated data practices (Gard, 2014;
Lupton, 2015).

7. Some critical issues
• The need for digital health literacy/resources?
Navigating digital media and interpreting data
• Digital health inequalities? little is known about
how people collect, interpret, and act on the digital
data generated through digital health practices.
• How will our data on our health behaviors shape
opportunity for future health care?
• Future trends and the expansion of the category of
healthcare
• Data privacy and security

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Major event:
May 16th, 2018 – Houses of Parliament