Abstract
We live in a digital world or digital era. Hence, People will argue that not only do information communication technologies (ICTs) make e-health possible but rather that it is an innovation advance whose time has come. Notwithstanding, e-health while hoping to create well needed improvement in health care, it is rife with certain challenges which are not limited to e-health literacy. However, this paper looks specifically at e-health literacy. The paper, in particular overviews e-health while addressing the impacts of key contextual factors that impacts e-health and e-health literacy regarding the propensity to adopt and use e-health in LEDCs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 616-628 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Knowledge Management and E-Learning |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Dec 2015 |
Keywords
- Contextual factors
- Contextual variables
- ICTs
- Informatics
- e-Health
- e-Health adoption
- e-Health challenges
- e-Health literacy