Mobile Health and Mobile Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 16731
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design and management of environments, programs, and services that promote independent living and full inclusion of people with disabilities; applications of universal design, information and communication technology; behavior management strategies; independent living philosophy to promote health, wellness, and community participation
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Interests: innovative assistive; information and communication technologies to enable persons with disabilities to optimize accessibility and usability of those technologies to access the world; emerging mainstream technologies; outcomes/performance monitoring, and program development
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Interests: research and development of assistive and rehabilitation technology for people with all types of disability; research on user needs and usability of technology products and services; development of mobile software applications and clinical interventions leveraging mainstream consumer technology platforms.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mobile healthcare—the delivery of health and wellness services via mobile communication technologies—has been growing rapidly over the past decade, with adoption accelerating recently in response to the restrictions on in-person patient visits imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mobile health (mHealth) and mobile rehabilitation (mRehab) have been touted as important new approaches for the management of chronic health conditions, including those affecting people with disabilities.
Concerns have been raised that the proliferation of mHealth could increase health disparities if it disproportionately benefits advantaged populations and leaves vulnerable populations behind, including people with disabilities. mRehab—the use of mobile communications to support the remote delivery of rehabilitation programs to patients at home or in the community—is less mature than mHealth and must also confront critical challenges of utility, efficacy, acceptance by patients and providers, integration into hospitals’ health information systems, and reimbursement.
In this Special Issue, we aim to highlight the current state-of-the-art in mHealth and mRehab service delivery and technology; elucidate the opportunities, challenges and barriers to the adoption of mHealth/mRehab; and lay out an agenda for future research and development efforts in this area.
We encourage the submission of papers presenting original research findings, innovative mHealth/mRehab service delivery approaches, or reviews of critical barriers to adoption.
Dr. Michael L. Jones
Dr. Frank Deruyter
Dr. John T. Morris
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mHealth
- mRehab
- information and communication technologies
- disability
- chronic disease
- self-management of health and wellness
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