Global strategy on digital health
Abstract
Digital technology has been a revolutionary foray in education, industry, research and recently, healthcare. Digital health encompasses various aspects of technology like information and communication, mobile health, data-recording and telemedicine. There has been an exponential and unregulated increase in digital health services in last few years which have raised concerns over data privacy, ethical standards and quality of services. The World Health Organization recently released the global strategy on digital health as a visionary document that provides a framework for countries to implement and expand digital health services. The following update briefly highlights the salient features of the update.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Insufficient training in the use of technology may pose a threat to ethical issues.
“In addition, as insufficient training in the use of technology may pose a threat to the ethical issues, efficient management of the available resources including human and physical resources are recommended to maintain highest level of societal and ethical standards.69”
From Utilization of telehealth to manage the Covid-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review (2023) · cites this paper as [69]
Cites
(2018) · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · doi:10.4337/9781786438768 · Cited by 1,942 · see citing works
The digitally engaged patient: self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era
Lupton, D. (2013) · Social Theory & Health · doi:10.1057/sth.2013.10 · Cited by 728 · see citing works
The Sustainable Development Goals
Willis, K. D. (2018) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315162935-11 · Cited by 231 · see citing works
Grand Challenges in Digital Health
Kostkova, P. (2015) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2015.00134 · Cited by 227 · see citing works
Digital health and the challenge of health systems transformation
Alami, H., Gagnon, M., & Fortin, J. (2017) · mHealth · doi:10.21037/mhealth.2017.07.02 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
Digital technology for health sector governance in low and middle income countries: A scoping review
Holeman, I., Cookson, T. P., & Pagliari, C. (2016) · Journal of Global Health · doi:10.7189/jogh.06.020408 · Cited by 105 · see citing works
Health information on internet is often unreliable
Gottlieb, S. L. (2000) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7254.136/b · Cited by 41 · see citing works
The man from down under takes over
Zinn, C. (2000) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7254.136 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
Zhang, Y. (2008) · Encyclopedia of Global Health · doi:10.4135/9781412963855.n433 · Cited by 19 · see citing works
The Technology Empowered Academy — At Your Service
Parekh, B. J. (2020) · Indian Pediatrics · doi:10.1007/s13312-020-1695-z · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Health data poverty: an assailable barrier to equitable digital health care
Ibrahim, H., Liu, X., Zariffa, N., Morris, A. D., & Denniston, A. K. (2021) · The Lancet Digital Health · doi:10.1016/s2589-7500(20)30317-4 · Cited by 326 · see citing works
Mobile Health (mHealth) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
McCool, J., Dobson, R., Whittaker, R., & Paton, C. (2022) · Annual Review of Public Health · doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-052620-093850 · Cited by 269 · see citing works
Digital health and telehealth in cancer care: A scoping review of reviews
Shaffer, K. M., Turner, K. L., Siwik, C., Gonzalez, B. D., Upasani, R., Glazer, J. V., Ferguson, R. J., Joshua, C., & Low, C. A. (2023) · The Lancet Digital Health · doi:10.1016/s2589-7500(23)00049-3 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
An introduction to digital determinants of health
Chidambaram, S., Jain, B., Jain, U., Mwavu, R., Baru, R., Thomas, B., Greaves, F., Jayakumar, S., Jain, P., Rojo, M., et al. (2024) · PLOS Digital Health · doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000346 · Cited by 175 · see citing works
Western, M. J., Smit, E. S., Gültzow, T., Neter, E., Sniehotta, F. F., Malkowski, O. S., Wright, C., Busse, H., Peuters, C., Rehackova, L., et al. (2025) · Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine · doi:10.1080/21642850.2025.2493139 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
Current challenges of digital health interventions in Pakistan: mixed methods analysis
Kazi, A. M., Qazi, S. A., Ahsan, N., Khawaja, S., Sameen, F., Saqib, M., Khan Mughal, M. A., Wajidali, Z., Ali, S., Ahmed, R. M., et al. (2020) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/21691 · Cited by 93 · see citing works
Hutchesson, M. J., Gough, C., Müller, A. M., Short, C. E., Whatnall, M. C., Ahmed, M., Pearson, N., Yin, Z., Ashton, L. M., Maher, C., et al. (2021) · Obesity Reviews · doi:10.1111/obr.13295 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Eslami Jahromi, M., & Ayatollahi, H. (2023) · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · doi:10.1093/jamia/ocac250 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Marchesi, R., Micheletti, N., I-Hsien Kuo, N., Barbieri, S., Jurman, G., & Osmani, V. (2025) · PLOS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013080 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
Paredes-Angeles, R., Cavero, V., Vilela-Estrada, A. L., Cusihuaman-Lope, N., Villarreal-Zegarra, D., & Diez-Canseco, F. (2024) · SSM - Mental Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100287 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Nævdal, R., Vis, C., & Kenter, R. M. F. (2025) · Internet Interventions · doi:10.1016/j.invent.2025.100881 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Telemedicine in the Clinical Care of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Scoping Review
Salvador, F. G. F., Wakimoto, M. D., Duarte, C. C. J., Lapão, L. V., Silveira, H., & Valete, C. M. (2025) · PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases · doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012431 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
- Authors
- Dhingra, D., & Dabas, A.
- Affiliations
- Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya (IN)
- Maulana Azad Medical College (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Dabas, Aashima
- Venue
- Indian Pediatrics
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 356-358
- ISSN
- 0019-6061 (ISSN-L)
- 0974-7559
- OpenAlex
- W3015840491
- Cited by
- 656
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 107 · 2024: 147 · 2023: 258 · 2022: 91 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 8 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 101.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Indian Pediatrics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Keywords
- digital health, mobile health, telemedicine, data privacy, moral norms, health information technology
- MeSH terms
- Communication, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, World Health Organization, Telemedicine
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
