ArticleEthics, medicine, and public health
Apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing: Too many questions and few answers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Contact Tracing During the COVID-19 Epidemic: Insights from the Experience of the Veneto Region in Italy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Decoding privacy concerns: the role of perceived risk and benefits in personal health data disclosure.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- The use of individual tracking programs in public health: a bioethics dilemma.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- A Survey on harnessing the Applications of Mobile Computing in Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions.Computer networks · 2023Review
- Healthcare Workers' Perspectives of mHealth Adoption Factors in the Developing World: Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Employee investigation and contact tracing program in a pediatric cancer hospital to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among the workforce, patients, and caregivers.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies.Technology in society · 2022Article
- How Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies Can Help the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- The Effects of Downloading a Government-Issued COVID-19 Contact Tracing App on Psychological Distress During the Pandemic Among Employed Adults: Prospective Study.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
- Attitudes Toward Using COVID-19 mHealth Tools Among Adults With Chronic Health Conditions: Secondary Data Analysis of the COVID-19 Impact Survey.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- The decline of COVID-19-related deaths and the risk of underestimating the pandemic.Ethics, medicine, and public healthArticle
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Recently, for the second phase of prevention of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is being assumed the use of an app for the prevention of infections COVID-19. The utility of these apps is not yet proven and the apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing probably cannot be used as a preventive tool until the bioethics and legal issues related to their use are resolved.
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