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Sebastián García Saisó1, Myrna C Marti1, Felipe Mejia Medina1
1Sebastián García Saisó and Marcelo D'Agostino are with the Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC. Myrna C. Marti and Victoria Malek Pascha are international consultants, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Felipe Mejia Medina is an international consultant, Bogotá, Colombia. Jennifer Nelson, Luis Tejerina, and Alexander Bagolle are with Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC.
Abstract:
This article describes 8 guiding principles for the digital transformation of the health sector and identifies their relationship with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as highlights their importance to countries undergoing digital transformation processes. In the Region of the Americas, among other gaps, 30% of people do not have access to the Internet, which is why it is mandatory to develop policies and actions to deliver public health interventions equitably and sustainably to ensure that no one is left behind. The 8 principles focus on the 4 areas of a sustainable health system-human, social, economic, and environmental-and highlight the broader possibilities for using digital technology to have an impact on the sustainability of health systems. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(S6):S621-S624. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306749).
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