Conference report: "Self-management for better health? Reflections on the self-tracking culture"

The growing self-tracking culture is expected to be part of the solution to severe problems in the public health sector because it promises a personalised, participatory and preventive approach towards health. Even though there may be some benefits and positive outcomes of self-tracking, Btihaj Ajana’s keynote aimed to “caution against the excessive optimism towards the role and the potential of self-tracking technologies”.