Digital Health, Welfare, and Care: Technologies, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion

Digital technologies transform health, welfare, and care service delivery, accessibility, and experience across societies. Innovations like telemedicine, AI, wearable health devices, electronic health records, and digital welfare platforms may improve efficiency, expand access to services, and support more personalized care. However, these advancements raise questions about equity, privacy, accessibility, and social justice. Understanding the intersection of digital health, welfare, and care should address the social, ethical, and policy challenges that shape who benefits from digital transformation. By exploring the relationships between technologies, inequalities, and social inclusion, researchers and policymakers can better identify strategies to ensure digital systems promote equitable, inclusive, and person-centered health and welfare outcomes. Digital Health, Welfare, and Care: Technologies, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion explores how digital technologies reshape health, welfare, and care systems and their impact on the delivery, accessibility, and quality of services. It examines how factors like digital inequality, socioeconomic disparities, digital literacy, and policy influence social inclusion and exclusion. This book covers topics such as social services, digital technology, and synthetic data, and is a useful resource for medical and healthcare professionals, engineers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.