Strategies and solutions to address Digital Determinants of Health (DDOH) across underinvested communities.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare has long struggled to improve services through technology without further widening health disparities. With the significant expansion of digital health, a group of healthcare professionals and scholars from across the globe are proposing the official usage of the term "Digital Determinants of Health" (DDOH) to explicitly call out the relationship between technology, healthcare, and equity. This is the final paper in a series published in PLOS Digital Health that seeks to understand and summarize current knowledge of the strategies and solutions that help to mitigate the negative effects of DDOH for underinvested communities. Through a search of English-language Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar articles published since 2010, 345 articles were identified that discussed the appl

SUBMITTER: Holmes Fee C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10569606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature