ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2025
Digitalization of health care in low- and middle-income countries.
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- New model for remote symptom management and self-care of cancer patients based on digital health platforms: a narrative review.Translational cancer research · 2026Review
- Perspectives of Rehabilitation Specialists on Telerehabilitation in Jordan: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Implementation Barriers.International journal of telemedicine and applications · 2026Article
- The AI Health Arms Race: A Critical Perspective on Big Tech and the Widening Global Health Equity Gap.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Chatbot-based health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: effective access, early attrition, and design strategies from a mixed-methods study.npj digital public health · 2026Article
- Governing AI-driven digital transformation in public healthcare: assessing administrative readiness and institutional capacity in Egypt's health system.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
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- Digital intervention targeting nutrition and physical activity behaviours among healthy individuals in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Exploring Literature on Data Governance in the Health Care of Older Persons: Scoping Review.JMIR aging · 2025Article
- Cardio-oncology Outcomes in Ultrasound-assisted Versus Standard Catheter-directed Thrombolysis for Acute Pulmonary Embolus.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2025Article
- What is the Role of Primary Prevention of Obesity in an Age of Effective Pharmaceuticals?Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Harnessing digital health to achieve equitable and efficient health systems.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Integrating Telehealth into Community-Based Palliative Care: A Systematic Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Data science without borders: bridging the divide in data science capacity across African health institutions.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Strengthening digital health local capacity: driving forces and milestones in Ethiopia.Oxford open digital health · 2025Article
- [Digital health and its impacts on the access of minority groups to primary care: a systematic reviewLa salud digital y su impacto en el acceso a la atención primaria de salud en grupos minoritarios: revisión sistemática].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Global trends and cross-country inequalities in laryngeal cancer: A systematic analysis of the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study represented by China.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
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Abstract
The rising incidence of noncommunicable diseases, combined with the costs of mitigating climate change, sovereign debt and regional conflicts, is undermining global health security and threatening progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. The negative impact of these polycrises is disproportionately borne by low- and middle-income countries, which have the highest disease burden and lowest health-care spending. Health digitalization is emerging as a promising countermeasure, accelerated by artificial intelligence (AI) software and quantum computing hardware. We provide a multisector critical analysis of the three key enablers - governance, infrastructure and security - of the responsible AI-enabled digitalization for safe, affordable, equitable and sustainable health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries. We consider leading use cases in public-private partnerships, democratized sovereign AI and embedded human security. Our analysis proposes that these use cases demonstrate how digital AI-accelerated global health may be advanced as human-centred managed strategic competition. We conducted our analysis through an inclusive range of theoretical perspectives and practical experience spanning academia, industry and practice across the world. We provide recommendations for the responsible management of the key enablers to accelerate global health for all. We anticipate that this paper will be useful for public health decision-makers, both in low- and middle-income countries leading local health digitalization, and in high-income countries supporting this transaction through their technologies, funding and knowledge exchange.
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