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This cross sectional country level study inspects how the relationship between national eHealth initiatives and level of health standards are contingent on culture, education and infrastructure. Resource complementary perspective based on Resource Based View (RBV) and literature on culture and eHealth outcomes are used as the theoretical lens. Publicly available retrospective data from more than 50 countries are utilized to explore the moderating effect. Standard of health was gauged using Life Expectancy Rate (LER) at birth. The results indicates that culture and education moderate the relationship between eHealth spending and health standard. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings and future research are discussed in this paper.
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Ahangama, S., Poo, D.C.C. (2013). Moderating Effect of Culture on IT and Health Standard: A Country-Level Analysis. In: Rau, P.L.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life. CCD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39137-8_11
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