mHealth

Culture Clash: STD App’s Naming Gaffe Goes Viral

April 3, 2014 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 19, 2014 Update: Mahalo and 'Ho'omaika'i 'ana (thank you and congratulations) for the corporate social responsibility exhibited by the Hula app founders and developers who have officially renamed their HIV/STD testing results app "Healthvana" as promised for a mid-July reveal! (more news here and follow up story to come) May 6, 2014 30 days later, AP NewsBreak/The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: behavior change, campus safety apps, CDC Teen Sexual Health, Change the name of the STD alert, college STD clinic finder, cultural appropriation, diversity and health, hapa haole, Hawaii, Hawaiian culture, Hawaiian heritage, history of hula, Hula, Hula app, Hula app petition, Hula is sacred, hula stereotypes, kamaaina, Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, mHealth, mobile apps, napalapalaiolaka, Native Hawaiians, Ramin Bastani, sexed, sexual health, STD-prevention, STDs, STDS/HIV-exposure, youth apps, Youth public health, YTH, YthLive

YTH: Youth, Tech, Health–Shaping Youth Interviews YTH Jamia Wilson

March 29, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Mar. 29, 2014 Like a teen whose spirited, edgy adolescence evolved toward bold innovation, I’ve watched YTH.org "grow up" as an organization over time, expanding and emerging into one of the most exciting intergenerational collaborations surrounding youth wellness and technology. Always a favorite for inspiring fresh thinking and preventive digital health problem-solving, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #FemFuture, Advocates-for-youth, Apps Against Abuse Challenge, at risk youth, bullying, campus safety, circle of 6 app, crisis text line, Deb-Levine, digital health, diversity and health, domestic abuse, hackathon for health, health apps, health literacy, Health2.0, ihollaback, Internet sexuality information services, Jamia Wilson, media-literacy, mental health, mHealth, millennials, Parenting-Teens, rape culture, reproductive rights, sexed, SexTech, sexting, sexual health, sexuality, street harassment, suicide prevention, support for teens, Tech diversity gap, teen dating violence, Texting4Health, wired youth, young feminists, Youth public health, youth tech health, Youth-advocacy, YTH, YthLive

Media That Uplifts & Inspires: Positive Picks For Youth Outreach

May 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Sept. 10, 2016 Update World Suicide Prevention Day is flooding my Twitter account, with poignant posts pointing to the desperate need for mental health resources and outreach, especially among youth and children. With this in mind, I'm going to tweet a loud 'shoutout' to organizations making a huge difference in this dialogue, from symptoms, outreach and support at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adversity, Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, Asset Based Thinking, bullying, Change the way you see everything, children and adolescent depression, Disney, gender and media portrayals, Get through tough times, GLSEN, Hank Wasiak, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, HGHW, Hollywood Health and Society, humanity, I Can Helpline, Inspire Foundation, intervention, It Gets Better, Josh Shipp, kids depression, Kids health, lead a happier life, liberty, Life, Liz J Meyer, Mental Health Month, mHealth, paths to happiness, PBG, Pixar, positive psychology, Project Happiness, pursuit of happiness, Reach Out Australia, reachout, ReachOut in the USA, SEL, social and emotional education, social change, social media activism, spark change, SPARK! summit, teaching tolerance, Teen's Guide to World Domination, teens depression, The Trevor Project, Toy Story, troubled teens, Woody, youth motivational speakers

Youth in Egypt: Freedom, Phones- And A New World Media Order

February 12, 2011 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Feb 12, 2011 I love editorial cartoons… they’re storytellers in a sound bite, with a wink and nod to profound societal changes and a snappy headline to boot. I use cartoons in media literacy deconstruction a lot, because like meaningful manga and graphic novels, they ‘cut to the chase’ with youth appeal and enable us to uncork deeper conversations in give and take style; a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #Jan25, citizen-journalism, David Horsey, digital citizenship, editorial cartoons, Egypt, Egypt revolution, Haiti benefit, headline news, Iconic Insta-Media, innovation, interdependence, journalism, media-literacy, mHealth, mobile for good, Mobile Youth, Mubarak, N2Y4, NEDA, One world, Shoe Throwers Index, six degrees of connective intelligence, social-media, storytellers, The past meets the future, twitter journalism, Uninstalling dictator, uprising, Ushahidi, using mobile to mobilize, Walt Handelsman, youth activism

When Life Goes Sideways: Is There An App For That?

November 8, 2010 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Dec. 14, 2015 Update While digital 'screens' helped me triage many Rx and Dx complications in rural environs, and this remote locale used screens beautifully to bring urban advice into a sepsis situation, the colossal shift of routine data entry usurping one-on-one caregiving with the doctor/patient interaction is extremely distracting and disturbing in just the few short years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: caregivers, caregiving, consumer centric health, DoubleCheckMD, eldercare, emergency technology, first aid, future of health care, grandparents, Healia, health 2.0 accelerator, health apps, health care, health education, health portals, Health2.0, Healthline, IFTF, kids emergency health, medical advice, medical diagnosis tools, mHealth, mobile apps, mobile health, public health, Pulse and Signal, Rx drug interactions, sandwich generation, senior citizens, symptom checking, TNTY, Triage, WebMD, wellness