Claudia Lampert writes about digital health services for children in the journal "Kinder- und Jugendmedizin [Child and Youth Medicine]". The issue focuses on "Neue Medien und Gesundheit [New Media and Health]".
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Abstract
Digitisation has opened up a wide range of opportunities for the communication of health-related content and for health self-management. Entertainingly designed applications are seen as an opportunity to sensitise children in particular to health-related topics or to support health-promoting behaviour. The article gives an overview of different digital offer types as well as their potentials and limits. So far, very few studies on the supply and use of digital health services are available. Reliable information on the scope and quality of the offer is lacking, as is data on the significance of health offers in children's media repertoire. Parents must also be involved in dealing with this topic, as they still have a major influence on the choice of offers and the use of media among younger user groups. Parents need low-threshold information and orientation services in order to be able to make an informed choice and digital health competences in order to assess the quality of services and, for example, to be able to correctly interpret and classify health data and the resulting recommendations.
Lampert, C. (2020): Digitale Gesundheitsangebote für Kinder [Digital Health Services for Children]. In: Kinder- und Jugendmedizin [Child and Youth Medicine], 20(04), S. 247-252. DOI: 10.1055/a-1201-7989
