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Design and deployment of digital health interventions to reduce the risk of the digital divide and to inform development of the living with COVID recovery: a systematic scoping review

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AuthorsFiona L HamiltonSumayyah ImranAamina MahmoodJoanna DobbinKatherine BradburyShoba PoduvalJamie ScuffellFred ThomasFiona StevensonOA
Year2025
VenueHealth and Social Care Delivery Research

Background: Digital health interventions can support health-related knowledge transfer, for example through websites or mobile applications, and may reduce health inequalities by making health care available, where access is difficult, and by translating content to overcome language barriers. However, digital health intervention can also increase health inequalities due to the digital divide. To reach digitally excluded populations, design and delivery mechanisms need to specifically address this issue.

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