An Evaluation Service for Digital Public Health Interventions: User-Centered Design Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health interventions (DHIs) have the potential to improve public health by combining effective interventions and population reach. However, what biomedical researchers and digital developers consider an effective intervention differs, thereby creating an ongoing challenge to integrating their respective approaches when evaluating DHIs.

Objective

This study aims to report on the Public Health England (PHE) initiative set out to operationalize an evaluation framework that combines biomedical and digital approaches and demonstrates the impact, cost-effectiveness, and benefit of DHIs on public health.

Methods

We comprised a multidisciplinary project team including service designers, academics, and public health professionals and used user-centered desig

SUBMITTER: Karpathakis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8459216 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature