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This chapter approaches engagement with eHealth resources around four main areas of interest: knowledge or attitude change, impact at the point of care, integrative digital storytelling and professional communities of practice. Each of these ideas is explored and illustrated with concrete examples of eHealth technologies designed and adapted to meet the needs of a specific group of health consumers or practitioners. The chapter also raises the important issue that eHealth resources cannot be engaged with unless people, first, know that they exist and, second are able to access them physically and intellectually.
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Kostkova, P. (2016). User Engagement with Digital Health Technologies. In: O'Brien, H., Cairns, P. (eds) Why Engagement Matters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27446-1_6
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