Exploring Women-Centric Health Technology Design: A Scoping Review

The United Nations’ third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) emphasizes the importance of ensuring sustainable healthcare for all. Women constitute half the global population, so they are a crucial demographic for researchers seeking to improve access to digital healthcare services. This study presents a comprehensive review of research conducted in the previous ten years that specifically examines the development of health technologies targeted towards women. Using the PRISMA framework to guide our analysis, we have synthesized relevant studies to extract insights into the tools and research methodologies. Our findings reveal that user-centered design is the most prevalent methodology among the approaches identified in the literature we evaluated. Also, maternal health emerged as a prominent area of concentration, with more than 50% of the examined studies focusing on it. This analysis provides valuable insights to inform future research on developing support technologies specifically designed for women.