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Designing Health Literate Mobile Apps
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Broderick, Jordan Devine, Theresa Claire Langhans, Ellen Lemerise, Andrew J. Lier, Silje Harris, Linda M. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | As mobile devices become more pervasive mobile health (mHealth) application software (apps) presents an exciting new opportunity to improve health and wellness. However if mobile apps are poorly designed they may contribute to the challenges most users face in trying to understand and act on health information -- challenges that are exacerbated for users with low health literacy. We believe that health literate apps have the potential to improve the quality and usefulness of health information for all users leading to better outcomes. With this in mind we call on developers to build “health literate apps” -- apps that apply both usability and health literacy strategies throughout the development process. We offer a blend of health literacy -- and usability -- improving strategies that can help developers build health literate apps. We present a case study in mHealth design from a 2012 mobile app challenge organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) to demonstrate how these strategies can be applied throughout the development process. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.31478/201401a |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://health.gov/communication/literacy/BPH-HealthLiterateApps.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/BPH-HealthLiterateApps.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://health.gov/communication/literacy/BPH-HealthLiterateApps.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.31478/201401a |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
