Wamala Andersson Sarah, Gonzalez Marta Pisano
School of Health, Care and Welfare, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.
Department of Care and Social Healthcare, Ministry of Health, Oviedo, Spain.
Front Digit Health. 2025 Jun 5;7:1461342. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1461342. eCollection 2025.
Digital health technologies and AI are transforming healthcare by improving access, optimizing care, and enabling personalized, preventive, and predictive solutions. However, digital health literacy remains a critical barrier, affecting individuals' ability to engage with digital health technologies (DHTs) and limiting progress toward digital health equity.
To propose a framework that captures the complexity of digital health literacy and guides research, and to share key insights from the Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living EU project.
We introduce a conceptual framework that explores digital health literacy's interactions with social determinants, providing a foundation for research, policy, and practice. Insights from the project (Improving Digital Empowerment for Active Healthy Living), involving 14 partners across 10 European countries, offer evidence-based strategies to empower individuals and promote digital inclusion.
To keep pace with technological advancements, digital health literacy should be integrated into lifelong learning initiatives. Urgent research is needed to inform policies and guide interventions that enhance digital health literacy and ensure equitable digital transformation in healthcare.
数字健康技术和人工智能正在通过改善医疗服务可及性、优化医疗护理以及实现个性化、预防性和预测性解决方案来改变医疗保健。然而，数字健康素养仍然是一个关键障碍，影响着个人使用数字健康技术（DHTs）的能力，并限制了数字健康公平方面的进展。
提出一个能够把握数字健康素养复杂性并指导研究的框架，并分享“改善积极健康生活的数字赋权”欧盟项目的关键见解。
我们引入了一个概念框架，该框架探讨数字健康素养与社会决定因素的相互作用，为研究、政策和实践提供了基础。该项目（改善积极健康生活的数字赋权）涉及10个欧洲国家的14个合作伙伴，其见解提供了基于证据的策略，以增强个人能力并促进数字包容。
为了跟上技术进步，数字健康素养应纳入终身学习计划。迫切需要开展研究，为政策提供信息并指导干预措施，以提高数字健康素养，并确保医疗保健领域的公平数字转型。
