Wong Brian Li Han, Maaß Laura, Vodden Alice, van Kessel Robin, Sorbello Sebastiano, Buttigieg Stefan, Odone Anna
Secretariat, The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world, Global Health Centre, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK.
Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2022 Mar;14:100316. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100316. Epub 2022 Feb 3.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital health technologies and the role of effective surveillance systems. While recent events have accelerated progress towards the expansion of digital public health (DPH), there remains significant untapped potential in harnessing, leveraging, and repurposing digital technologies for public health. There is a particularly growing need for comprehensive action to prepare citizens for DPH, to regulate and effectively evaluate DPH, and adopt DPH strategies as part of health policy and services to optimise health systems improvement. As representatives of the European Public Health Association's (EUPHA) Digital Health Section, we reflect on the current state of DPH, share our understanding at the European level, and determine how the application of DPH has developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss the opportunities, challenges, and implications of the increasing digitalisation of public health in Europe.
新冠疫情凸显了数字健康技术的重要性以及有效监测系统的作用。尽管近期事件加速了数字公共卫生（DPH）扩张的进程，但在利用、发挥和重新利用数字技术促进公共卫生方面，仍存在巨大的未开发潜力。尤其迫切需要采取全面行动，让公民为数字公共卫生做好准备，对数字公共卫生进行监管和有效评估，并将数字公共卫生战略作为卫生政策和服务的一部分加以采用，以优化卫生系统改进。作为欧洲公共卫生协会（EUPHA）数字健康部门的代表，我们思考数字公共卫生的现状，分享我们在欧洲层面的理解，并确定数字公共卫生在新冠疫情期间的应用发展情况。我们还讨论了欧洲公共卫生日益数字化带来的机遇、挑战和影响。
