Week 11 - Digital Health Promotion Flashcards

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What has health promotion always engaged with?

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  • Media
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What does health promotion always draw on?

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  • Theories and practices from media studies
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What have studies shown that online communications are effective in?

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  • Improving health knowledge
  • Understanding health topics
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What have studies shown that social media can be used to promote and change?

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  • Health related behaviours
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What are the 3 Eras of the Web?

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  • Web 1.0
  • Web 2.0
  • Web 3.0
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Describe the Web 1.0 Era of the Web

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  • Following development of WWW
  • Information Unidirectional
  • Seek Health Information
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Describe the Web 2.0 Era of the Web

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  • Known as ‘Social Web’
  • Creation and Content Sharing by Users
  • Seek others with shared concerns
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Describe the Web 3.0 Era of the Web

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  • Known as ‘Internet of Things’
  • Interconnection of smart objects that exchange information with or without need for human engagement
  • Seek personalized, data driven health solutions
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Who were the Partners in the Carrot Reward App?

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  • Ministry of Health
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
  • BC Healthy Living Alliance
  • Social Change Rewards
  • YMCA Canada
  • Heart & Stroke Foundation
  • Canadian Diabetes Association
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What was the original goal of the Carrot Reward App?

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  • Influence British Columbians to make healthier choices
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How did you earn points on the Carrot Rewards App? What else did you gain?

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Points
- Completing quizzes on healthy living topics
Additional Gain
- Knowledge on Health

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What are some of the Healthy Living topics covered in the Carrot Reward App?

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  • Nutrition, Meal Planning, and Grocery Shopping
  • Physical Activity - amount, type
  • Mental Wellbeing
  • Low risk drinking and smoking
  • Flue shots and other ‘health checks’ and screening
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What kind of points did you receive in the Carrot Rewards App?

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  • Aeroplan
  • Scene
  • More Rewards
  • Petro Points
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What was the Goal of the Carrot Reward App?

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  • Increase step count among users in BC and NL
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How did the Carrot Rewards App attempt to set theyre goal?

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  • Goal Setting
  • Graded Tasks
  • Biofeedback
  • Small Incentives
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For the Step Count Challenge on the Carrot Reward App when were users rewarded?

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  • Calculate baseline step, then reward for base +1000 steps.
  • Reward for 10/14 days reaching goal
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How many users were classified as inactive? What was inactive based on ?

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50% of Users
- <5000 steps/day

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What was the average increase in step count during the Step Count Challege?

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  • 117 steps
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What step count did the high engagers that were inactive to start increase by?

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  • 1224 step/day
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What was the Goal of the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?

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  • Incentivize flu education messaging
  • Encourage vaccination uptake in BC
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What did the in app quizzes feature during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?

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  • Education about importance of flu vaccine
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When did the Carrot App give push notifications during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?

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  • When within 200m of a participating pharmacy
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How did you receive bonus points on the Carrot App during the Carrot Flu Education Campaign?

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  • For Going to Pharmacy
  • Completing Follow Up Survey
24
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How many users took the Flu Campaign Quiz?

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  • 38% (30500)
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How many users of the Carrot App clicked on the map to find a pharmacy?
- 41%
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How many Carrot App users turned on location based push notifications?
- 78%
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How many Carrot App users spoke to a pharmacist?
- 96
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How many Carrot App users reported getting vaccine?
- 38
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Why did the Carrot Reward App Almost work?
- Gamification (points, goals, challenges) - Present Bias: People overvalue immediate incentives - Herd Behaviour: Real time feedback on peer progress
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Why didnt the Carrot Reward App Survive?
- High engagement made it too expensive for government partners - Average earnings was only $8/year
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What is the evidence that there is a new (digital) fitness boom?
- Health apps are top category - Fitness apps make up bulk of health apps - Wearable tech alone estimated at 99.5 billion dollar industry in 2022
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What is exergames?
- Health-related digital gaming
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How do exergames work?
- Use sensors to generate digital data on players - Provide data on fitness (BMI)
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Why was Wii Fit revolutionary?
- First time positioned screens as something that could benefit physical health
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Where is the blurring between 'tech' companies and 'fitness' companies seen?
- Nintendo a player in fitness space - Nike player in tech space
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What did scientists and engineers publish in 2011?
- a fictional, futuristic digitized weight-loss program
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What did the Fit4Life fictional, futuristic digitized weight loss program entail?
- Tracking devices to monitor calorie consumption, exercise, metabolic rate. - Integrating social media for support and motivation - Goal to use technology to encourage people to eat less and exercise more
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What equipment was theoretically proposed for the Fit4Life fictional, futuristic digitized weight-loss program?
- Earpiece - record jaw movements - Thinsert - For sock/shoe: electronic weight scale - HR monitor worn on chest - Support cloud to connect social media - Information to link wirelessly to smartphone app
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What is a Prosumers?
- Both Produce and Consume digital content
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What are quantified self-ers?
- Growing movement in self-tracking as part of improving one's lifeq
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Describe HEalthism
- Health as personal and moral matter - People have personal and moral responsibility to be as healthy as possible
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What is Healthism closely linked to?
- Medicalization of everyday life
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What is the medicalization of everyday life?
- Notion that more and more realms of life are subject to the medical gaze
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What is Healthism and Medicalization of Everyday Life often associated with?
- Neoliberalism
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What did Lupton (2014) say about Digital technology and companies?
- Digital technologies are political - Digital empires have a lot of power - Can shape social relations, commercial, and government activities and all forms of social institutions
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What is something that Insurance companies have recently done?
- Offer discounts if you let them track your fitbit - Discounts for healthy behaviours
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What are some concerns with digital health promotion?
- Blur boundaries between public and private surveillance - Users framed as personally responsible for own care and management
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