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This comprehensive open access book gives an overview of the core issues in digital public health, with a strong emphasis on prevention, population health, and health systems. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from theoretical frameworks to legal and ethical issues related to digital public health applications and interventions. With chapters on user-centered technology development, evaluation, participatory approaches in digital public health, and global digital public perspectives, it also presents examples taken from ten essential public health operations. Targeted at researchers in academia, industry, and government, this unique text offers a broad insight into digitalization, a central topic in the current development of public health worldwide.
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction.- Why is it essential to address digital public health in an interdisciplinary way?.- Part II: Theoretical approaches.- Public health in the digital era digital entry points for population health.- A framework to develop and evaluate digital public health interventions.- Participatory approaches for digital public health giving voice to values.- Open data for DiPH research versus data protection.- Evidence-based approaches in digital public health.- Digital interventions for public health: a systematic planning approach.- Evaluation of digital public health interventions.- Part III: Cross-cutting.- Cyberspaces modifying the digital environment for health promotion and prevention.- Digital public health in Europe: Was the COVID-19 pandemic an enabler for healthcare digitalization?.- Global perspectives on digital public health: a framework.- Digital health inequality.- Digital health literacy.- Public health goes digital or not? Ethical considerations concerning limits and necessary alternatives.- Social media in digital public health.- Part IV: Application in 10 essential Public Health.- Surveillance of population health and well-being (EPHO 1).- Monitoring and response to health hazards and emergencies (EPHO2).- Health protection, including environmental and food safety (EPHO 3).- Health promotion, including action to address social determinants and health inequity (EPHO 4). -Disease prevention, including early detection of illnesses (EPHO5).- Digital public health governance navigating complex structures.- Assuring a sufficient and competent public health workforce for digital public health.- EPHO8: Assuring sustainable organizational structures and financing for Digital Public Health.- Advocacy, communication, and social mobilization for health (EPHO 9).- Advancing public health research to inform policy and practice (EPHO10).- Part V:Technologies and computer-based methods (Software engineering for Public Health).- From smart watches to research tools: unlocking the potential of modern health monitoring technology.- AI meets digital public health.- Use of secondary and registry data for digital public health.- Ethical implications of user autonomy in digital public health.- Health data pipelines: moving away from Excel to scalable, sustainable, insightful, and future-proof infostructure.
