ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Europe2022
The dawn of digital public health in Europe: Implications for public health policy and practice.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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82 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital Inequalities in the Use of eHealth Services in European Public Health Care Systems: Systematic Review of Observational Studies.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding Inequalities in Mobile Health Utilization Across Phases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Availability of published evidence on coverage, cost components, and funding support for digitalisation of infectious disease surveillance in Africa, 2003-2022: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Implementation of policy and management interventions to improve health and care workforce capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic response: a systematic review.Human resources for health · 2023Pooled it
- Health-Related Indicators Measured Using Earable Devices: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Internet-based interventions for behavioral addictions: A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluation of a Partial Ban on Rx-Rebates in Germany.Health economics · 2026Article
- How Pandemics Have Reshaped the Respiratory Virus Data Landscape in Europe: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- First the relationship, then the technology: Healthcare professionals' perceptions on how digital health solutions impact the interaction with patients.PEC innovation · 2026Article
- Mapping Echocardiographic Practice in Emilia-Romagna: A Regional Healthcare Census.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cultivating competent public health professionals: the role of research participation and academic motivation.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- A scoping review on using real-world data to evaluate the effectiveness of mHealth applications.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Landscape analysis towards data quality and utility labelling in the European Health Data Space.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Indirect, machine learning-based suicide risk screening: Evidence from cross-National Validation.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Article
- Digital paradigm of public health.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Strengthening the Commissioning Capacity of Primary Health Networks: A Framework and Strategies for Development.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2026Article
- eHealth literacy, health self-efficacy, and health-promoting lifestyle among vocational college students: a latent profile and mediation analysis study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of a Revised Multidimensional Digital Health Literacy Scale: Secondary Analysis Using Cross-Sectional Data From the 2022 GetCheckedOnline Community Survey In British Columbia, Canada.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Study on regional disparities and influencing factors of public health service supply in China from the perspective of fairness.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Opportunities and Challenges for an Organizational Digital Public Health Strategy in a Provincial Public Health Program in Canada: Qualitative Description of Practitioner Perspectives.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital health technologies and the role of effective surveillance systems. While recent events have accelerated progress towards the expansion of digital public health (DPH), there remains significant untapped potential in harnessing, leveraging, and repurposing digital technologies for public health. There is a particularly growing need for comprehensive action to prepare citizens for DPH, to regulate and effectively evaluate DPH, and adopt DPH strategies as part of health policy and services to optimise health systems improvement. As representatives of the European Public Health Association's (EUPHA) Digital Health Section, we reflect on the current state of DPH, share our understanding at the European level, and determine how the application of DPH has developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss the opportunities, challenges, and implications of the increasing digitalisation of public health in Europe.
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