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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2026

A global call to action on the digital determinants of health.

James Shaw, Caesar Atuire, Leo Anthony Celi, Sara L M Davis, Tiyondah Fante-Coleman, Kadija Ferryman, Mataroria Lyndon, Juan Sebastian Osorio, Dharaa Suresha, Beatrice Tiangco

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

James ShawDepartment of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Joint Centre for Bioethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. jay.shaw@utoronto.ca.
Caesar AtuireDepartment of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Leo Anthony CeliLaboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sara L M DavisCentre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Social Sciences Building, Coventry, UK.
Tiyondah Fante-ColemanBlack Health Alliance, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Kadija FerrymanBerman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Mataroria LyndonCentre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Juan Sebastian OsorioDepartment of Global Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Dharaa SureshaDwight Global Online School, New York, NY, USA.
Beatrice TiangcoPhilippine Foundation for Health and Development, Manila, Philippines.

Funding

Bridge2AI: Patient-Focused Collaborative Hospital Repository Uniting Standards (CHoRUS) for Equitable AIOT2OD032701 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BIHORAC, AZRA, CLERMONT, GILLES · 2022 to 2025
$24.6M
MUST Data Science Research Hub (MUDSReH) - Democratized Trusted Research Environment (dTRE)U54TW012043 · FIC · MBARARA UNIVERSITY/SCIENCE/ TECHNOLOGY · PI Leo Anthony G Celi, Jessica Elizabeth Haberer · 2021 to 2026
$6.9M
FIC NIH HHS U54 TW012043NIH HHS OT2 OD032701
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The integration of established and emerging digital technologies into the institutions and activities of daily life produces important digital transformations that have profound impacts on health and well-being. In this Perspective, we articulate the urgent need for close attention to the health-related impacts of the diverse uses of digital technologies and the transformations they bring about on a global scale. We provide a conceptual summary of definitions of the Digital Determinants of Health published in the peer-reviewed literature and present progress toward a conceptual framework for understanding the Digital Determinants of Health as operating through primary (individual and community health), secondary (domestic institutions), and tertiary (global political economy) mechanisms. We call for dialogue and collaboration to deepen work on the Digital Determinants of Health for more just and equitable impacts of digital transformations for global population health.

Identifiers

PMID42162220
PMCPMC13462987

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Registered trials

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