Contemporary eHealth Literacy Research - An Overview with Focus on Germany
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چکیده
eHealth Literacy is a crucial topic in regarding the acceptance of consumers towards eHealth services. There are several measurement methods, nevertheless they all lack interactive aspects of trending technologies such as mobile health apps or self-tracking services. Furthermore none of them acknowledges cultural and social backgrounds. Although the topic is of great importance it seems to be underrepresented in Germany.
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