SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 085: Technology, Surveillance and Access to Health Services
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University

Description: 

This session will explore the use - and developments of - technology in healthcare, surveillance of patients and medical providers, and access to services across healthcare services.

Papers:

“Promoting Digital Skills for Health Equity in Digital Era,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University

“Commercial Sex Trafficking Dynamics in South Asia,” Natasha Israt Kabir, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

“Foreign Experts, Local Problems: Tracing the Transnational Movement and Application of Medical Expertise in Cambodian Nongovernmental Organizations,” Derek Richardson, Indiana University Bloomington

“Negotiating Silicocratic Biomedicalization: Healthcare, Market, and the Emergence of Biomedical-AI Dual Experts in South Korea,” June Jeon and Kwang Hyuck Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

“Self-care in Response to Care Scarcity and Systemic Marginalization: Challenging the Narrative in AMR Policy,” Agata Pacho, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

“Examining the Eco-gender Gap: Emotion and Gender in Environmental Concern Research,” Helen E. Wilds, University of Tennessee