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Using Foucault to Understand Self-Monitoring in Chronic Disease Management

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Abstract

In today’s twenty-first century healthcare environment, the interaction of patients with information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a particularly interesting dynamic to researchers who study changes in related behavioral phenomena. One such phenomenon is self-monitoring. In the management of noncommunicable chronic disease, self-monitoring is considered a critical enabler for the attainment and maintaining of a better healthcare state. This paper examines the behavioral change of self-monitoring and the integral role of ICTs in enabling patients to self-monitor.

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  3. Inet International Inc., Thornhill, ON, Canada

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Wickramasinghe, N., Goldberg, S. (2018). Using Foucault to Understand Self-Monitoring in Chronic Disease Management. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Schaffer, J. (eds) Theories to Inform Superior Health Informatics Research and Practice. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72287-0_17

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