Cultural adaptation: a framework for addressing an often-overlooked dimension of digital health accessibility

Relatively little is known about how to make digital health tools accessible to different populations from a cultural standpoint. Alignment with cultural values and communication styles may affect these tools’ ability to diagnose and treat various conditions. In this Editorial, we highlight the find...

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Autores principales: Marwaha, Jayson S., Kvedar, Joseph C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8486834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34599270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00516-2
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spelling pubmed-84868342021-10-07 Cultural adaptation: a framework for addressing an often-overlooked dimension of digital health accessibility Marwaha, Jayson S. Kvedar, Joseph C. NPJ Digit Med Editorial Relatively little is known about how to make digital health tools accessible to different populations from a cultural standpoint. Alignment with cultural values and communication styles may affect these tools’ ability to diagnose and treat various conditions. In this Editorial, we highlight the findings of recent work to make digital tools for mental health more culturally accessible, and propose ways to advance this area of study. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8486834/ /pubmed/34599270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00516-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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