ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2020
Digital Health Equity and COVID-19: The Innovation Curve Cannot Reinforce the Social Gradient of Health.
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351 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Attitudes of dermatological patients towards digital health interventions: a cross-sectional survey and cluster analysis.Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG · 2026Article
- Perceived Barriers to Home-Based Telemedicine and Facilitators of Public Health Center-Based Telemedicine Among Digitally Capable Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Scenario-Based Survey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Adaptation of Social Health Care Tools From Paper-Based to Web-Based Formats: Scoping Review.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Review
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Abstract
Digital health innovations have been rapidly implemented and scaled to provide solutions to health delivery challenges posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This has provided people with ongoing access to vital health services while minimizing their potential exposure to infection and allowing them to maintain social distancing. However, these solutions may have unintended consequences for health equity. Poverty, lack of access to digital health, poor engagement with digital health for some communities, and barriers to digital health literacy are some factors that can contribute to poor health outcomes. We present the Digital Health Equity Framework, which can be used to consider health equity factors. Along with person-centered care, digital health equity should be incorporated into health provider training and should be championed at the individual, institutional, and social levels. Important future directions will be to develop measurement-based approaches to digital health equity and to use these findings to further validate and refine this model.
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