Dutta MJKaur-Gill STan NLam CBaulch EWatkins JTariq A2024-11-132024-11-132018-01-04Dutta MJ, Kaur-Gill S, Tan N, Lam C. (2018). mHealth, Health, and Mobility: A Culture-Centered Interrogation. Baulch E, Watkins J, Tariq A. Mobile Communication in Asia. (pp. 91-107). Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.978-94-024-1250-5https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71993In this chapter, we examine the interplays of the symbolic and the material in the constructions of mHealth. By attending to the key themes that play out in discourses of mHealth, we examine critically the ways in which power plays out in the structuring of mHealth solutions. The articulation of mHealth as instrumental to generating positive health outcomes in communities across Asia erases the contexts within which mobile technologies are constituted. mHealth interventions reproduce the logics of the state and the market, reproducing communities as homogeneous and monolithic sites of top-down interventions.© Asian Development Bank 2018CC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/MobilityCommunityNeoliberalismMobile healthchapter10.1007/978-94-024-1251-2_6chapter978-94-024-1251-2891-1076