Costa Leandro Augusto de Almeida, Furtado Brena Ataíde, Almeida Edilson Brabo, Callegari Bianca, Crisp Alex Harley, Chaves Rafael Oliveira, Pinheiro Maria da Conceição Nascimento, Souza Givago Silva
Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Front Digit Health. 2025 Jun 11;7:1495408. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1495408. eCollection 2025.
Portable digital electronic devices have been widely used around the world for different everyday tasks. However, every day there is also an increasing dumping of these electronic devices, especially smartphones, creating a public health problem called electronic waste or e-waste. This Viewpoint discusses how e-waste could be used by governments to promote digital health policies, especially in poorer countries. The use of e-waste could lower health care costs and reduce exposure to the metals contained in these materials.
便携式数字电子设备在全球范围内已被广泛用于各种日常任务。然而,每天这些电子设备,尤其是智能手机的丢弃量也在不断增加,这引发了一个名为电子垃圾或电子废弃物的公共卫生问题。本文观点探讨了政府如何利用电子垃圾来推动数字健康政策,尤其是在较贫穷国家。电子垃圾的利用可以降低医疗成本,并减少接触这些材料中所含金属的机会。