UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Publication Date
2022-02-12
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation | Cardiology | Cardiovascular Diseases | Community-Based Research | Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Health Information Technology | Health Services Administration | Infectious Disease | Virus Diseases
Abstract
Gathering detailed information on an individual’s neighborhood environment is becoming increasingly recognized as a crucial component of understanding the impact that social determinants have on individual and public health, and this has been further highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging research clearly demonstrates COVID-19’s differential impact on underserved and rural communities, and it is imperative to adequately capture important neighborhood-level predictors of health outcomes to better understand the extent to which these communities have been affected, and to equitably promote their recovery and healing. mHealth tools have drastically transformed the framework of data collection within clinical and population health research and can significantly reduce accessibility barriers for research participants to allow for convenient, continuous real-time health and activity space assessments. Digital interventions leveraging remote data collection, and providing study participants with requisite devices when necessary, serves to bridge the digital divide that would otherwise preclude rural populations’ participation in key research opportunities for advancing health equity.
Keywords
Cardiovascular disease, Rural health, Wearable devices, Social determinants of health, Technology
Rights and Permissions
© 2022 Heart Rhythm Society. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.cvdhj.2022.01.003
Source
Singh A, Ding EY, Mehawej J, Joshi S, Soni A, Mujahid MS. Technology, community, and equity: Considerations for collecting social determinants data. Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal. 2022 Feb 12. View article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal
Repository Citation
Singh A, Ding EY, Mehawej J, Joshi S, Soni A, Mujahid MS. (2022). Technology, community, and equity: Considerations for collecting social determinants data. COVID-19 Publications by UMass Chan Authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cvdhj.2022.01.003. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/covid19/372
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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