Equitable Healthcare Provision: Uncovering the Impact of the Mobility Effect on Human Development

ABSTRACT

Even though the effects of mobile phone and internet usage on the health and wellbeing of a population are becoming apparent, few studies have uncovered the nature of this relationship to the equitable provision of healthcare. The contribution is in discovering the relationships between mobility effects and human development where inequities in income play an important role, the relationships to socio-economic development and in showing how the mobility effect can assist in addressing health inequities.

KEYWORDS:

• Human development
• healthcare IT
• health equity
• the mobility effect
• equitable healthcare provision
• socio-economic development

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Sajda Qureshi

Sajda Qureshi is Kayser Professor at the Information Systems Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Information Technology for Development Journal. She holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has held positions in academia and industry. She has about 200 publications in journals such as Group Decision and Negotiation, IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, Communications of the ACM, books published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag, Chapman and Hall and North-Holland and conferences such as the International Conference in Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.

Jason (Jie) Xiong

Jason (Jie) Xiong is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University. Dr. Xiong’s research focuses on IT for Development (IT4D), E-Commerce, and the value of Information Systems. He has published in such journals as Information Technology & People, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, China Finance Review International, Sustainability and Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, and in the proceedings of such conferences as HICSS, AMCIS, and GlobDev.