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[Digital public health-an overview].
Review in Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Digital Interventions for Managing Medication and Health Care Service Delivery in West Africa: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Educating older adults to use technologies for health management in social settings: perspectives of older adults and community workers.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Changes in older employees' willingness to utilise digital health promotion and prevention programmes during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Latent obstacles in older adults' digital health participation: a community-based hybrid cluster analysis with natural language processing.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Assessing the Digital Advancement of Public Health Systems Using Indicators Published in Gray Literature: Narrative Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Review
- Developing and Evaluating Digital Public Health Interventions Using the Digital Public Health Framework DigiPHrame: A Framework Development Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Mapping Digital Public Health Interventions Among Existing Digital Technologies and Internet-Based Interventions to Maintain and Improve Population Health in Practice: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- International perspectives on measuring national digital public health system maturity through a multidisciplinary Delphi study.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- [Developments in the digitalization of public health since 2020 : Examples from the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Review
- [How much digital public health is in public health degree programs? A systematic analysis of module handbooks in German full-time study programs at public colleges and universities].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Article
- Digital Technologies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Older People: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Health economic evaluation of preventive digital public health interventions using decision-analytic modelling: a systematized review.BMC health services research · 2023Review
- [Development, Evaluation and Implementation of Digital Health Interventions (Part 1) - Discussion Paper of the Digital Health Working Group of the German Network for Health Services Research (DNVF)].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2023Article
- Digitization in Everyday Nursing Care: A Vignette Study in German Hospitals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Digital Technologies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Older People: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- What are Digital Public Health Interventions? First Steps Toward a Definition and an Intervention Classification Framework.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Digital Interventions for Physical Activity Promotion: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- Mapping Digital Public Health Interventions Among Existing Digital Technologies and Internet-Based Interventions to Maintain and Improve Population Health in Practice: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Digital Interventions for Physical Activity Promotion: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- The dawn of digital public health in Europe: Implications for public health policy and practice.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2022Review
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4 authors.
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Abstract
The rapid development and proliferation of digital health technologies have not only changed the medical professions, but offer great potential for public health, particularly in health promotion and disease prevention.At the same time, this emerging field is also characterized by conceptual and terminological fuzziness, a marked lack of high-quality evidence, and an absence of an honest discussion of unintended consequences and side effects. Further challenges for digital public health lie in the fact that the development of new health technologies is mainly driven by technological progress and less by evidence-based needs and research in public health.In this overview paper, we aim at conceptually denoting the field of digital public health, using principal public health functions as guiding principles. We discuss some current applications of digital health technologies in fulfilling public health functions and propose a needs-based development of digital health technologies.We will further address specific challenges to digital public health, in particular socio-economic differences in the usage of and profiting from digital health technologies, data protection and privacy issues, as well as ethical issues.
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