| Title |
Ethical issues in mhealth / |
| Translation of Title |
Ethical Issues in mHealth. |
| Authors |
Karonen, Joni Olavi Edward |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
28 |
| Keywords [eng] |
mHealth, mobile health, medical ethics |
| Abstract [eng] |
This thesis studies the ethical challenges in mobile health. It is a word used for practicing medicine and public health by using mobile devices and wireless technologies in healthcare. This thesis analyses the current literature of ethical challenges in mHealth and examines the challenges by analyzing research articles. It was possible to identify five main ethical challenges, that are confidentiality and privacy, autonomy, consent, justice and conflict of interest. These most common global ethical challenges were analyzed and compared to each other, if it was possible to find some more common ethical challenges. The thesis also mirrors the global research of mHealth ethics and compares it to ethics of Finnish mHealth. Substantiation. In this thesis it will be substantiated that more research is needed on the topic of mHealth and its ethics. The aim of the work. The aim of the work is to identify what are the largest ethical challenges at the moment in mHealth and how they differ from each other. Objectives. The following objects are raised to reach the aim: to identify the mostly occurring ethical themes from literature, to compare that are some ethical challenges occurring more often than others, to identify what is the current situation of mHealth in Finland and to analyze how these found literature from global research literature compare to Finnish situation. Methods. This thesis is a literature review that used public research papers from Web of Science database. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Master thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2023 |
