Underprivileged citizens´use of technology for everyday health management: A conceptualization of underprivileged citizens´ engagement in health-related occupation

In this doctoral thesis, I address the problem of inequality in health by focusing on how underprivileged citizens experience and manage health-related problems in their everyday lives. Particularly, I focus on the citizen’s use of technology for engaging in health-related occupation. The field of research for the thesis is occupational science (OS), while Deweyan pragmatism is called upon as a theoretical frame.

The overall aim of this thesis is to develop conceptual knowledge on how to support underprivileged citizens’ engagement in health-related occupation, with attention to these citizens’ everyday health management using technology. To achieve this aim, three consecutive studies were conducted.