Promoting Health Education through Mobile Apps: A Quantitative Analysis of American Hospitals

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dc.contributor.authorMedina Aguerrebere, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorMedina, Eva
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez Pacanowski, Toni
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-12T12:48:27Z
dc.date.available2023-09-12T12:48:27Z
dc.date.issued2022-11
dc.description.abstractUsing mobile apps as a corporate communication tool helps hospitals to improve their health education initiatives. This paper aims to analyze how these organizations can use mobile apps to implement health education initiatives addressed to patients. To achieve this, we conducted a literature review (health education, mobile apps, role of doctors and patients), and we resorted to using 38 quantitative indicators to evaluate how the 100 best hospitals in the United States manage mobile apps for implementing health education initiatives addressed to patients. Our results prove that 95% of hospitals displayed general mobile apps for patients, but just some of these organizations proposed mobile apps for patients suffering from non-communicable diseases, including: heart diseases (9.47%), cancer (7.37%), chronic respiratory diseases (3.26%), and diabetes (3.16%). We concluded that hospitals should create a department specializing in designing mobile apps that are adapted to patients’ medical and social needs, and that are also consistent with public health priorities. © 2022 by the authors.
dc.identifier.citationMedina Aguerrebere, P., Medina, E., & Gonzalez Pacanowski, T. (2022). Promoting Health Education through Mobile Apps: A Quantitative Analysis of American Hospitals. Healthcare, (10)11, 2231. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112231
dc.identifier.issn22279032
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112231
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/824
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHealthcare (Switzerland); Volume 10, Issue 11
dc.rightsThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.holderCopyright : © 2022 by the authors
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcorporate communication
dc.subjecthealth education
dc.subjecthospitals
dc.subjectmobile apps
dc.subjectpatients’ empowerment
dc.titlePromoting Health Education through Mobile Apps: A Quantitative Analysis of American Hospitals
dc.typeArticle

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