Going digital – a commentary on the terminology used at the intersection of physical activity and digital health
- In recent years digital technologies have become a major means for providing health-related services and this trend was strongly reinforced by the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As it is well-known that regular physical activity has positive effects on individual physical and mental health and thus is an important prerequisite for healthy aging, digital technologies are also increasingly used to promote unstructured and structured forms of physical activity. However, in the course of this development, several terms (e.g., Digital Health, Electronic Health, Mobile Health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, and Telerehabilitation) have been introduced to refer to the application of digital technologies to provide health-related services such as physical interventions. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned terms are often used in several different ways, but also relatively interchangeably. Given that ambiguous terminology is a major source of difficulty in scientific communication which can impede the progress of theoreticalIn recent years digital technologies have become a major means for providing health-related services and this trend was strongly reinforced by the current Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As it is well-known that regular physical activity has positive effects on individual physical and mental health and thus is an important prerequisite for healthy aging, digital technologies are also increasingly used to promote unstructured and structured forms of physical activity. However, in the course of this development, several terms (e.g., Digital Health, Electronic Health, Mobile Health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, and Telerehabilitation) have been introduced to refer to the application of digital technologies to provide health-related services such as physical interventions. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned terms are often used in several different ways, but also relatively interchangeably. Given that ambiguous terminology is a major source of difficulty in scientific communication which can impede the progress of theoretical and empirical research, this article aims to make the reader aware of the subtle differences between the relevant terms which are applied at the intersection of physical activity and Digital Health and to provide state-of-art definitions for them.…
Verfasserangaben: | Fabian HeroldORCiD, Paula TheobaldORCiD, Thomas GronwaldORCiDGND, Michael A. RappORCiDGND, Notger Germar MüllerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s11556-022-00296-y |
ISSN: | 1861-6909 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35840899 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | European review of aging and physical activity |
Verlag: | Springer |
Verlagsort: | Berlin ; Heidelberg |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 16.07.2022 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 22.02.2023 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Aging; Digital Health; Electronic Health; Mobile Health; Physical activity; Physical training; Telehealth; Telemedicine |
Band: | 19 |
Aufsatznummer: | 17 |
Seitenanzahl: | 7 |
Fördernde Institution: | University of Potsdam |
Fördernde Institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German; Research Foundation) |
Fördernummer: | PA 2022_085 |
Fördernummer: | 491466077 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Extern / Extern |
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften | |
Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften | |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 796 Sportarten, Sportspiele | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Fördermittelquelle: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
Externe Anmerkung: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Gesundheitswissenschaftliche Reihe ; 5 |